Originally Posted by
Bikeguy
The other sign you are in full blown addict mode is when you consider vacation destinations by EQMs.
My wife and I got $300 certs from a trip this past May. Before I considered where to go, I checked both our EQMs for the year. Her's were more important, because she won't MR. We were both a little under 9K away from the next level. That left only one choice for last week, Hawaii. If the status had been locked in, we probably would have gone to SFO or AZ, or maybe to Caribbean.
We did the same thing, but it worked out for the best. We booked a trip to Hawaii a few years ago to accumulate miles, but ended up loving it, so now we go at least once per year.
We're both mileage whores, so we are the perfect couple (Our second date, in 2001, was spent curled up on the couch watching a video of the new NW terminal in Detroit that a friend of mine at the airport sent me.) for this, although sometimes, she takes it a bit too far. For instance, she had the opportunity to stay at the George V in Paris for work, but turned it down to stay at a Hilton.
Mike