Traveling for work in my 40's is a lot different than when I was in my 20's and 30's ... it's way better.

One thing that I think is a universal truth, is that young people think traveling for work is awesome … I know that I did. The irony of this is that I didn’t actually do much work-related travel when I was young.When I was younger and recently married, my wife held a job that required her to travel all the time. I don’t mean “a lot”, I really do mean that she traveled all –  the – time. She would hop on a plane Monday morning and wouldn’t come back home until late Thursday evening. This happened every week for years and since we were young and didn’t have children, this sort of travel provided us with all sorts of opportunities that we would never have been afforded otherwise. She racked up frequent flyer miles, hotel and rental car points like crazy and we would cash them in and go exploring. We even went to London over a three-day weekend at one point because, why not" It was awesome! There was one part of this sort of travel that I found somewhat uncomfortable. Because my wife traveled so much, she had status everywhere and cashing in these points typically yielded us some amazing hotels with ridiculously awesome rooms that under regular circumstance we would never have been able to afford. As a result, we couldn’t actually do anything at these hotels other than sleep there. More times than not, based ...