JD and I are both away this weekend with our friends at the beach, thanks to the kindness of JD who has arranged this trip for the past three or four years and it's something that we always look forward to.
Most of the time on trips like this we would be reporting back on the hotels that we stayed at and the best points earning strategy for the area...but not this time. This time is simply to just sit back, enjoy time with friends that you don't get to see enough and have lots of laughs. As JD calls it, it's "do whatever you want weekend."
The moral of this story is something that we often forget in the miles and points game, and something that I have been personally thinking about recently...the points and miles to get to a destination are not the goal...they are the means to the goal. In the end you want that trip or that experience with friends that you remember and talk about for years to come. In this case it's no points and miles used or needed to get to an amazing time...but we already have some great stories and have continued traditions that are now three or four years old.
Trips to exotic destinations are great and make for great memories...but I often find thatit's never the size or location of the trip, it's the people are you are with and the memories that you make. For now...I'll take this condo by the beach, I'll take the friends I love so dearly and another laugh with them daily.
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