You could do a lot worse than focusing on earning Aeroplan miles for travel: many partnerships, good availability, some good saver redemptions, and have Chase, AmEx, and Capital One as transfer partners.

We booked for four roundtrip tickets to Quebec City from DC for 20K miles each (80K total).

The stars aligned yesterday and we were able to book our annual ski trip. Heading back to Quebec Charlevoix at the end of January! One of these years we’ll go somewhere else, but this is not that year.