Giovanna, I have a friend who invited me to her "cottage" one summer a few years ago. The "cottages" there were all lovely mansions/villas of varying architectural styles, surrounding a lake. Karen, my friend, took me for a boat ride on the lake, and pointed out areas where some residents had sand "trucked in" to make the atmosphere on their property more like a beach. Karen herself had a dock for her two boats.

Perhaps I'm being oversensitive about the "seasoned" thing. In a couple of months I will experience a milestone birthday, and am unfortunately feeling even older than my actual age.

BC

I don't know about the "seasoned" part but I just LOVE being called a jet-setter.
;-)suze

Does this mean new blood? If so, which of you will be performing the initial rituals?

Oh wow...I'm a jetsetter!

Maybe I can have that embroidered onto my luggage...

Does this mean that those who still have their old Fodor's pins will be automatically upgraded to 1 cl?

((I))

I don't want to be seasoned like a piece of meat... and what on earth is a "jet setter" ? I suspect I'm not that also...

Good question, kenderina. Who even uses that term any more? It's pretty 50's, isn't it?!

I wonder why they did not mention that "passing gas" thread...

lol, brazilnut!

Gee, I'm a jet setter? :-d
I'd be happy to do more to earn that term (without being considered old...)!

And since some of the trips my husband and I take are in his Piper Cherokee are we also prop setters?

Hi K,

>what on earth is a "jet setter" ?

Back in the days when Jackie O was Mrs Kennedy, "Jet-setters" were the very wealthy, "beautiful people" who could afford to hop a plane in NY to shop and have dinner in London or Paris and return the next day.

As noted, the term is no longer appropriate since just about anyone can do that on FF miles.

((I))

PS,

Let me amend that from "just about anyone" to "one no longer has to be very wealthy".

((I))

In my case that should read....Seasoned Economy class jet setter:)

Since we always travel on stand by, can we be called stand-by jet setters? :-)
arjana

Last time I heard the term jet-setter was ... well, a long time ago ... before I was born, I think.

Steerage set here

ahh, ok, thanks Ira :) These kind of people doesn't exist anymore...that's why the term got old , hahaha.

Yea, the term jet setter started soon after airlines started replacing prop planes with jets. I think it's ironic that someone so old they'd use the term "jet setting" would refer to us as seasoned.

Speaking of steerage... Has anyone ever traveled via freighter? I used to read that one could hop a freighter to, lets say, europe... and though it took a while, it was cheap. Anyone know anything about this? I am not considering doing so, but I remember thinking it would be adventurous to travel like that... But that was also when I was in college and not married. I am sure that my wife would view it as "adventurous". :)