24 Mar 2024 · Many hotel chains will grant different loyalty levels depending on how often you stay each year, with each level giving more hotel perks. By staying 1000 nights at Hilton properties, I’ve managed to earn their highest status tier for life.
31 Dec 2023 · I spent 87 nights traveling this year, picked up ten new airports, visited Iceland and Japan, and drove a go-kart through the streets of Naha.
Hotel Internet Speed 2022–2023
16 Jul 2023 · A decade ago I tracked my internet speeds in hotels, and from July 2022 through June 2023 I tracked them again to see what had changed.
Tenth Anniversary of Paul Bogard’s Flight Log
27 Apr 2023 · Ten years ago, I launched the predecessor to Flight Historian.
31 Jan 2023 · Travel stats and photos for my January 2023 vacation, including the TWA hotel, Reykjavík, Akureyri, and mall cats.
Creating a Fictional Airline With ChatGPT
16 Jan 2023 · I was playing around with the ChatGPT language model, and accidentally ended up developing a fictional airline.
31 Dec 2022 · This year I spent 97 nights traveling, visited my 100th airport, flew 74 times (including my 1000th flight), and had some issues with rental cars.
Automating myTracks Driving Log Filtering with iOS Shortcuts
18 Dec 2022 · How I use iOS automation to record when I start and stop driving.
4 Dec 2022 · A size comparison of the Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington) and the Orange County Convention Center (Orlando, Florida).
I’ve Flown Through One Hundred Airports
21 Jul 2022 · In 2013 I set a goal to travel through one hundred different airports. In July 2022, I finally achieved my goal.
31 Dec 2021 · My travel statistics for 2021.
A Water Salute and the Breaking of a Voucher Chain
30 May 2021 · I earned a United voucher from a trip I booked on another United voucher, but I finally broke that trend by taking United’s first flight between Columbus, Ohio and Portland, Maine.
1 Jan 2021 · On average, I’m furthest from home in mid-February each year.
31 Dec 2020 · My travel statistics for 2020. For obvious reasons, travel has been substantially lower than in recent years.
11 Nov 2020 · My job has had me fly a few times since COVID-19 restrictions started, and it’s an odd experience.
19 Apr 2020 · While I’m fortunate that my health and finances have both been well during the COVID-19 crisis, this has been the longest time I’ve been home for this long since I started traveling for work in 2009. I created a chart and some statistics about this time spent at home.
1 Jan 2020 · My maps, charts, and other travel statistics for the entire decade of the 2010s.
31 Dec 2019 · My travel statistics for 2019.
Generating GPX and KML Maps with Ruby on Rails
1 May 2019 · How to use Ruby to create GPX and KML map data files.
Size Comparison of NRT and DFW
18 Feb 2019 · This past week, I took a trip to Tokyo via Dallas/Fort Worth. Since I just completed my Tokyo Narita terminal silhouette yesterday, I used it to create a size comparison of the two large airports I visited on my trip.
7 Feb 2019 · Using math to figure out which of my layovers were the most out of the way relative to the net distance traveled.
31 Dec 2018 · A summary of my 2018 hotels, flights, and driving.
31 Dec 2017 · My 2017 travel statistics.
Switching Flight Historian to ICAO Regions
7 Sep 2017 · I used to manually keep track of which airports were within the contiguous United States in Flight Historian’s airport data, but I realized that I could determine airports’ regions by looking at their ICAO codes instead.
Creating Multiple Flash Messages in Ruby on Rails
5 Apr 2017 · On my Flight Historian application, a number of my pages make use of the Ruby flash and flash.now session messages for alerts. However, some of those pages needed to have multiple messages of the same type, which flash didn’t allow me to do. To fix this, I wrote my own messages structure.
Parsing Boarding Pass Dates in Ruby on Rails
16 Jan 2017 · Boarding pass barcodes contain data that’s useful for automatically filling in flight data, but their dates are particularly difficult to parse.
31 Dec 2016 · Overall, my travel increased slightly this year. Unlike in 2015, my travel was relatively evenly spread throughout the year.
10 Apr 2016 · With two recent work trips and a five-city European vacation, combined with the changes to summer time in the US and Europe, I’ve gone through quite a few time zone changes in the past six weeks.
Counting Visits to Airports: The Significance of Trip Sections
25 Feb 2016 · Why did I build my own flight log instead of using an existing one? One big contributor was that existing flight logs all seemed to double-count layovers.
31 Dec 2015 · 2015 was a relatively strong year for me for business travel, with the first and last thirds of the year being particularly busy. Due to that, my total flights and hotel nights just edged above 2014’s numbers, for another record year.
No, I’m Not Flying From Honolulu
1 Oct 2015 · Somehow, I managed to get an already used record locator for a trip I booked, which led to some issues on the airline’s website.
Size Comparison of the Busiest US Airports
21 Sep 2015 · The three busiest airports in the United States—Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Chicago-O’Hare—are all enormous, but I was wondering how big they are compared to each other.
Finding Your Tail Number (When You Can’t See It)
13 Sep 2015 · Every aircraft has a unique registration number, usually printed on or near the tail, which you can use to track which specific airplanes you’ve been on.
Creating a Regular Expression for US Tail Numbers
4 Sep 2015 · Each country has its own assigned format for tail numbers, so it’s possible to look at each tail number and determine what country it’s from. I wanted to create a regular expression to recognize US tail numbers.
31 Dec 2014 · 2014 has been a record travel year.
A Single Flight Round Trip at DFW
7 Nov 2014 · Due to a mechanical issue, my flight had to return to Dallas.
29 Aug 2014 · It’s not uncommon to have delays going through Chicago, but this Monday’s trip to Tulsa was a bit involved.
Percentage of Flights on American Airlines
31 Jul 2014 · For a while, over half of my total flights had been on American Airlines.
10 Jun 2014 · Comair’s strike meant I got to avoid the uselessly short flight between Cincinnati and Dayton.
Valentine’s Day Winter Weather
17 Feb 2014 · Due to the system delays caused by Winter Storm Pax, my flights home on 14 February went through rather a lot of transitions.
31 Dec 2013 · The end of 2013 is here, which seems like a perfect time to summarize my flight activity over the last year.
15 Sep 2013 · I was able to use BTS data to help me fill in a good portion of my missing tail numbers.
16 Aug 2013 · My long-term travel goal is to fly through 100 different airports.