2008 Travels

It's been quite a year (for more reasons than one). I have gotten a lot of traveling done -- for work and pleasure. I was reviewing my travels and came up with some estimates of what I have "accomplished" in all this.

Using the Great Circle Mapper (another one of my favorite tools), I got a ballpark estimate on how many miles I traveled this year. This is for travel only, not commuting or anything else. To see the basis for my calculations, use this link.

Here's a map of my estimations:



Honestly, I didn't go to too many different places, it was just the same places multiple times. Sometimes I cannot believe how I meet people who have never been out of the state they live in! How does that happen in the 21st Century.

Some other things to put the travel in perspective:
- Total Travel was ~36,404 miles! As Borat would say: "Wowee Wow!"
- Hilton HHonors Points ~ 47,635 points. 34 Nights in a Hilton Hotel spread over 14 separate stays.
- Southwest Airlines Credits ~ 16 credits (enough for a free flight). Oddly enough, I only boarded 7 flights on Southwest this year, and two flights were a reward flight.
- United Airlines Miles ~36,611 Miles and 27 segments. Bear in mind that there's bonus miles in that figure, so I flew a little less -- although it comes close to the total miles flown and driven.
- 9 states were visited as destinations, but I traveled through 18 states in total.
- Geocaches were found in 8 states with a total of 94 geocaches found (as of 12/12/08)

All in all, quite a busy year, and there were huge gaps throughout the year where I didn't travel at all. This is kind of a neat way to recollect the previous year.