I will be man enough and admit that I was slightly guilty of burning some of those holes in the Floridian sky when I did 100 hours a while back. Although in my defence I did plan each flight and do the full plog but wasn't religiously following times etc. So probably not as guilty as many folk that fill her up and head off following the coast in a particular direction.
Am now over half way through my IMC. My motivations for doing this were 4 fold really. Firstly I needed to do the usual "conversion" back to flying in the UK having done the bulk of my hours in the US. Secondly, I thought I could kill 2 birds with one stone and do the "conversion" whilst training towards something. Thirdly, I thought that it had to make you a better/safer pilot and finally I am hoping that it will go some way to making the IR a hell of a lot easier.