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A not super long airplane ride to a completely different place

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MLW needed 1800 miles to maintain her gold status, so we went looking for some small trip that would be interesting, but not on the grand scale of crossing an ocean. Ideally somewhere that would deliver the miles, be interesting enough and not require an epic amount of detailed planning. Problem was, there are few interesting 1 or 2-hops from Albuquerque, and I just wasn’t moved by any of the domestic cities on offer and most of the international options were simply too far away and costly to merit serious consideration. But after a lot of scheming, I finally found the perfect solution – Québec City – a little bit of France within a day’s travel from home. I had been there twice previously, first as part of my high school’s Christmas break French Class trip (never mind I was taking Spanish) and that one ended with all of us being kicked out of the Chateau Frontenac Hotel for conduct unbecoming civilized young men. The second time was post-college when I steered my pickup truck acro...