After months of planning, it’s official – the tickets are purchased and it is just a matter of weeks until we depart.  We booked our RTW tickets through the Star Alliance, opting for their largest tier ticket of 39,000 miles across 16 segments.  This of course presented an immediate personal challenge for Kim – wanting to optimize our route to make use of all 16 possible flight segments while using as many miles as possible.  After hours of fine tuning our route on the Star Alliance’s Book and…