The account was dizzying. My dinner guest, now 90, was not sure that she had the energy to use all the airline points she’d accumulated for a free trip to Germany and back.
Travel can be exhausting, she explained, and related her most recent trip abroad – at 80 – when she’d figured out a way to see an opera in Missouri on the way to skiing in Colorado, and then pack in a few days’ European vacation while her car was enjoying free parking at a hotel near the slopes. She flew back to the car, then drove home.
It was the most efficient vacation-planning I’d ever heard of. Inspiring! And far more impressive than my latest personal best – having the dinner table set and flowers arranged ahead so I would not be rushed, returning from a downtown meeting that afternoon.
Yay for the 90-year-old planners! They give me hope. A lifetime of practice fitting in one more thing will certainly pay off. (And I’m sure she’ll figure out a way to use those points.)
