{"id":5222,"date":"2015-08-13T21:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T01:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:48:38","slug":"day-38-miles-for-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5222","title":{"rendered":"Day 38: Miles for miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta tells me that I have flown 246,875 miles in their planes. That&#8217;s trivial, of course &#8211; there are many people in the Million Miler clubs, and then there&#8217;s Tom Stuker, who&#8217;s flown more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/07\/11\/united.ten.million.miles\/\">10 million miles on United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it makes me tired\u00a0to think what my\u00a0total mileage would be if I added in United, Alaska, Emirates, Southwest, JetBlue, and then all the minor airlines overseas, in the South Pacific, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. I know that I flew more than 35,000 miles in the South Pacific alone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some great fun traveling, but I sure don&#8217;t love it like I used to.<\/p>\n<p>So it makes me happy when I can give my frequent flier miles as gifts &#8211; to charity, to family. After all, I really didn&#8217;t do anything to earn them, other than do what I was going to do anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>And when you fly that many miles, getting on a plane doesn&#8217;t seem like a reward.<\/p>\n<p>The flights I gave away today were for a family member who is getting tests for a transplant. All the hours I sat on those planes, flying to Dubai and D.C. and St. Lucia, \u00a0I didn&#8217;t know I was doing something that would someday be a big help to a loved one who&#8217;s fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<p>It would be great if you could earn points for driving, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2011-Day-38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2011-Day-38-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Day 38\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2011-Day-38-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2011-Day-38.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s penny is a 2011, one that looks like it has seen a lot of miles in the four short years of its life. Chosen because it&#8217;s\u00a0the year that\u00a0Tom Stuker flew his\u00a010 millionth mile.<\/p>\n<p>I hope he gave away a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta tells me that I have flown 246,875 miles in their planes. That&#8217;s trivial, of course &#8211; there are many people in the Million Miler clubs, and then there&#8217;s Tom Stuker, who&#8217;s flown more than\u00a010 million miles on United. Still, it makes me tired\u00a0to think what my\u00a0total mileage would be if I added in United, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5222\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 38: Miles for miles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[47,268,323,134,86,133,269,322,135],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-47","tag-africa","tag-asia","tag-charity","tag-family","tag-flying","tag-middle-east","tag-south-pacific","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}