61.   Those meals brought complaints from globe-trotters about the ease of cashing in miles for tickets to popular vacation spots.

62.   Travelers on American Airlines who want to redeem frequent-flier miles for first-class or business-class seats will need more miles starting in February.

63.   TWA, for example, grants an extra mile for each dollar spent on a full-fare ticket.

64.   Trainers, mostly from area tracks such as Oaklawn Park, Fair Grounds and Sam Houston Race Park, flew or drove hundreds of miles for the preview.

65.   Travelers now can even earn airline miles for walking.

66.   Why in the world was I walking the extra mile for time-release fruit?

67.   Who am I to grouse, just because I parked in the dust and walked a mile for my garlic fries and my first Giants loss of the year?

68.   Instead, they exchanged them for lower-priced tickets or used frequent-flier miles for their flights and swapped the first-class tickets for cash.

69.   One American Dracula expert who traveled thousands of miles for the experience said she felt that the blood of the Dracula spirit lived on in Transylvania.

70.   People in many small towns now have to travel miles for such services.