This is a difficult post to write, and I apologize ahead of time if not all of it comes out right.  I’ll probably hover over the publish button before I post this, if I post it at all. A couple of years ago, a fellow frequent traveler found it strange …

This is a funny calculation I did.  I looked at the year I traveled the most for work, and came up over a few thousand dollars short of Executive Platinum. With the new changes for 2017, those qualifying for Executive Platinum must fly 100,000 miles AND spend $12,000 on flights. …

The Watergate has an interesting place in my memory.  I’m too young to know it for its scandalous history, but it WAS where I bought all my groceries when I first lived in DC. There was a market in its basement and I lived a few blocks away.  I spent …