{"id":15257,"date":"2015-12-29T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2015-12-29T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:26:43","slug":"2015-travel-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=15257","title":{"rendered":"2015 Travel Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the year is almost over for real (my travel days are numbered this year a while back) and since everyone else is doing it, I might as well right! Not as much travel this year as last, but then it was a small year last year anyway. This year had some craziness back in the mix, purely because I could.<\/p>\n<p>This is what my year looks like on a map<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15262\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?attachment_id=15262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15262\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15262\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015map-300x300.gif\" alt=\"Not that big of a year of flying... but still plenty of fun.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015map-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/bigmal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015map-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/bigmal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015map-50x50.gif 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not that big of a year of flying&#8230; but still plenty of fun.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That is a total of 23418 miles.  I wouldn&#8217;t even make silver on any one airline with that amount of flying&#8230; *sigh*.  But hey&#8230; who cares right!  Let&#8217;s break that down to some stats:<\/p>\n<p>Total Miles: 23418<br \/>\nTotal Flights: 16<br \/>\nLongest Flight: Seattle to Frankfurt &#8211; 5109 miles<br \/>\nShortest Flight: Seattle to Spokane &#8211; 224 Miles<br \/>\nNew Airports: 5 &#8211; Frankfurt, Newark, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Spokane<br \/>\nNew Airlines: Condor<br \/>\nNew Aircraft: Boeing 787-9, Boeing 747-8i<br \/>\nMost Flown Airline: TIED! United &#8211; 6, Alaska Airlines &#8211; 6<br \/>\nMost Flown Aircraft: Boeing 737 (all variants) &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>I managed to get one new state (Oklahoma) but no new countries in the mix (in fact the only time I visited another country was my trip to Frankfurt).  I will have a separate post on all the driving we did this year, rating mine and Heidi&#8217;s favorite rental cars of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Next years travel will make for a much longer year for miles, purely because Heidi and I are travelling back to Australia and then up to Asia.  But for the moment, there is still some craziness involved.  If all goes to plan I should be able to knock my unvisited states to practically nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is to a good travel year in 2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the year is almost over for real (my travel days are numbered this year a while back) and since everyone else is doing it, I might as well right! Not as much travel this year as last, but then it was a small year last year anyway. 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