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Travelling like a Billionaire

Once again I am back from the US.   The trip was trouble free because we flew private there and back.  My friend invited my wife and I to join him in Jackson Hole for 10 days of skiing.  The truth is that it's evident that some pigs are more equal than others.  The customs and immigration experience when flying private is very different.  We still needed a visa but no real questions were asked, we landed in Chicago to refuel…and then to Jackson Hole

My comment is different, I saw the USA as a billionaire would.  As an example the "cost of leasing a G700" is $32,000 per hour and we used it for nearly 30 hours all in all…you do the math of how expensive the flight was for the four of us.  Our host "borrowed" a 9 bedroom house from a "friend of a friend".   We had special VIP ski passes where we did not wait for gondolas and at only in 3 star restaurants the entire 10 days we were there.  The notional cost of the trip for the four of us was nearly $1.5 million.  Notional because Art owns the aircraft outright, and the house we really borrowed from one of Art's friends.   Still we were using a 10 million dollar house for 10 days and flew a 70 million dollar aircraft. Art and his wife do this twice a winter.   Art has more money than God, and I've known the man for more than 50 years, a real friend.  This was the first time Art invited my wife and I to join him skiing.

All I have to say is that it was still a ridiculously expensive holiday for us, not that I mind, and we do have disposable income.   But travelling with Art and his wife the cost was still two orders of magnitude more than what we would consider spending.  Still a truly brilliant holiday.   Also Jackson Hole was quiet, really really quiet.  


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