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Ah, the Big Apple.

There go my air miles.

A few weeks ago I told you I’d upate you on my exploration into air miles and where it’ll take me. I don’t know how long it took me to accumulate 3800 points, but they’re mostly gone. Oh yes, that’s right. I have 450 left. I managed to spend 3350 points in the last few weeks.

I didn’t do a major getaway for Thanksgiving like I told you I had hoped. Instead, my mom and I spent a day in Waterloo, St. Jacob’s and in Kitchener at Oktoberfest. More about that in another post.

Back to how I blew my air miles.

First, I bought a $100 gift card for the Best Western line of hotels for 750 points.

My boyfriend and I went up to Rattlesnake Point, a conservation area, for an evening to celebrate his birthday and stayed in the Best Western in Milton. We drove from the hotel to Rattlesnake and took a four-hour hike in the woods, which I definitely recommend if you’re very “city” like I am. It was amazing. The air felt so much cleaner - I could feel my nose seize and dry up once we were back in Toronto only two days later.

The funniest thing was conducting an interview via phone to New Jersey under a tree at Rattlesnake. I called an interviewee for a travel Q&A article I write for The Globe and Mail’s travel section on a freelance basis and did the entire interview while lying on a big sarong/thin blanket I bought in Rio earlier this year. It was just funny. Who needs the office when you can do some work in the forest?

The other 2600 points have been spent on NYC… which I’ll tell you about in my next post, on Tuesday January 27.

Until then, happy travels!