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      <title>2025 Year in Travel</title>
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      <description>2025 was my year of the road trip; although flights were down, I had a record amount of driving.</description>
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      <title>Circling the Beltway</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Can you circle the Capital Beltway around Washington, D.C., without changing lanes?</description>
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      <title>Lodging Log Version 2.0: GeoPackage Data</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I restructured my lodging log into a single, well-organized system—one data file, and one script library to generate everything from it.</description>
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      <title>A Month of DAY</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>All February 2025 flights to or from Dayton, Ohio (DAY/KDAY).</description>
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      <title>Driving Log Version 3.1: Rental Cars and Rental Locations</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Adding rental cars and rental agency locations to my driving log.</description>
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      <title>2024 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>In 2024, I earned my first lifetime status, visited 21 states, and drove on the lowest road in North America.</description>
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      <title>Logging My Oldest Flights</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Using airline timetables and Nintendo Power issues to research my oldest flights.</description>
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      <title>Changing Flight Historian Boarding Pass Email to AWS SES</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>With simple authentication being deprecated, it was time for me to move Flight Historian away from reading a webmail account using IMAP to a proper automated email service.</description>
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      <title>Hub Airport Territory</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Maps of small airports which only connect through a single hub.</description>
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      <title>Flight Historian Version 2.5: Interactive Mapbox Maps</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/flight-historian-version-2-5/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 2.5 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Historian.</description>
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      <title>Lifetime Hilton Diamond</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>2023 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Hotel Internet Speed 2022–2023</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Driving Log Version 3.0: KML to GeoPackage Conversion</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Many of the requirements that caused me to store my driving log in KML are no longer applicable.</description>
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      <title>Tenth Anniversary of Paul Bogard’s Flight Log</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Ten years ago, I launched the predecessor to Flight Historian.</description>
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      <title>New York, D.C., and Iceland</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Travel stats and photos for my January 2023 vacation, including the TWA hotel, Reykjavík, Akureyri, and mall cats.</description>
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      <title>2022 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Automating myTracks Driving Log Filtering with iOS Shortcuts</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/automating-mytracks-driving-log-filtering-with-ios-shortcuts/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>How I use iOS automation to record when I start and stop driving.</description>
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      <title>SCC vs. OCCC Size Comparison</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>A size comparison of the Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington) and the Orange County Convention Center (Orlando, Florida).</description>
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      <title>Driving Density Maps</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Maps showing how often I’ve driven in various places.</description>
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      <title>Logging GPS Tracks With a Bad Elf GPS Pro&#43;</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>This tutorial will give you the basics of using a Bad Elf GPS Pro+ to record driving data and export the data for use in mapping software.</description>
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      <title>PAX West 2022 Map</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>A map of Seattle-area places I visited during the weekend of PAX West 2022.</description>
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      <title>I’ve Flown Through One Hundred Airports</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>In 2013 I set a goal to travel through one hundred different airports. In July 2022, I finally achieved my goal.</description>
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      <title>Flight Historian Version 2.4: GPX/KML Map Downloads and AeroAPI</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/flight-historian-version-2-4/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 2.4 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Historian.</description>
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      <title>2021 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My travel statistics for 2021.</description>
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      <title>Driving Log Version 2.1: Track Gap Fix</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/driving-log-version-2-1/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I made an update to fix small gaps in my driving log data.</description>
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      <title>Seattle Heatmap</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>A heatmap of where Paul spent time on a September 2021 trip to Seattle.</description>
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      <title>A Water Salute and the Breaking of a Voucher Chain</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/a-water-salute-and-the-breaking-of-a-voucher-chain/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Driving Log Version 2.0: Canonical KML File and Import Script</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/driving-log-version-2-0/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I organized my driving log into a single KML file and wrote a script to automatically import GPS data.</description>
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      <title>City Population Gravity</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/city-population-gravity/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Using a gravity metaphor, I calculated the U.S. cities with the most attraction from my hometown based on population and distance.</description>
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      <title>Distance From Home by Day</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/distance-from-home-by-day/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>On average, I’m furthest from home in mid-February each year.</description>
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      <title>2020 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My travel statistics for 2020. For obvious reasons, travel has been substantially lower than in recent years.</description>
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      <title>Work Travel During a Pandemic</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/work-travel-during-a-pandemic/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My job has had me fly a few times since COVID-19 restrictions started, and it’s an odd experience.</description>
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      <title>Cincinnati Heatmap</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Ever since I learned how to make heatmaps, I’ve wanted to track everywhere I go within a city I’m visiting on a given trip. I did so this weekend for a Cincinnati staycation.</description>
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      <title>Ingress Mosaic Maps</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>The geocaching game Ingress has been a great way to explore new cities when traveling, and it gave me the opportunity to create some maps as well.</description>
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      <title>Visualizing GPS Data With QGIS</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/visualizing-gps-data-with-qgis/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>This tutorial will teach you how to use QGIS to generate a map image from GPX track data.</description>
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      <title>Song Lyrics Graph</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/song-lyrics-graph/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I combined a word cloud with a graph to show both how often each word appeared in song lyrics, and which words followed which other words.</description>
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      <title>Mapping GPS Data in uMap</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>uMap is a website which allows you to import GPX data and overlay it on an OpenStreetMap layer. This tutorial will teach you how to view GPX-formatted GPS data in uMap.</description>
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      <title>Mapping GPS Data in Google Earth</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/mapping-gps-data-in-google-earth/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Google Earth is a map viewer that provides an easy way to view GPS data files. This tutorial will teach you how to view GPX-formatted GPS data in Google Earth.</description>
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      <title>Logging GPS Tracks With iOS and MyTracks</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/logging-gps-tracks-with-ios-and-mytracks/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>This tutorial will teach you how to use an iOS device to log GPS data and export it to a GPX file (which can then be used by mapping software).</description>
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      <title>Converting GPS Data Between GPX and KML</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/converting-gps-data-between-gpx-and-kml/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>GPX and KML are both file types used to store GPS data. This tutorial will teach you how to convert between GPX and KML (in both directions) using GPS Visualizer.</description>
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      <title>Logging GPS Tracks With a Garmin Automotive GPS</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/logging-gps-tracks-with-a-garmin-automotive-gps/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>This tutorial will teach you how to record route data on a Garmin automotive GPS and extract it into a GPX file (which can then be used by mapping software).</description>
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      <title>Travel Heatmap</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/travel-heatmap/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>For my 2010s Decade in Travel post, I manually created a heatmap showing the parts of the United States and world where I’d spent the most time traveling. Since I’ve been playing around with QGIS recently, I went ahead and used it to create a proper heatmap of my travels.</description>
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      <title>Time at Home During COVID-19</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/time-at-home-during-covid-19/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Unlucky Gate 13</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Map of U.S. airports with or without a gate 13.</description>
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      <title>A Decade in Travel: 2010–2019</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/a-decade-in-travel-2010-2019/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My maps, charts, and other travel statistics for the entire decade of the 2010s.</description>
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      <title>2019 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My travel statistics for 2019.</description>
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      <title>Generating GPX and KML Maps with Ruby on Rails</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/generating-gpx-and-kml-maps-with-ruby-on-rails/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>How to use Ruby to create GPX and KML map data files.</description>
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      <title>Flight Historian Version 2.3: Automatic Distance Calculations and GPX/KML Maps</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/flight-historian-version-2-3/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 2.3 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Historian.</description>
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      <title>What I Packed for PAX West 2018</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>A guide to packing for conventions.</description>
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      <title>Size Comparison of NRT and DFW</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>My “Worst” Layovers</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>After a trip to Nashville, I realized that the city’s central freeways mostly intersect at Y-intersections. That meant that I could draw Nashville’s freeways on a hexagonal grid.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Visualizing which US state abbreviations are one letter different from each other.</description>
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      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/a-primer-on-car-rentals/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/interstate-grid/</guid>
      <description>A visual representation of major cross-country interstate highways on a grid, inspired by Cameron Booth’s “Interstate Highways as a Subway Map.”</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 2.2 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Historian.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>PAX West spreads out beyond the Washington State Convention Center into many downtown Seattle event spaces. I created a map of convention venues and affiliated hotels.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 2.1 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Historian.</description>
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      <title>Creating Multiple Flash Messages in Ruby on Rails</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Boarding pass barcodes contain data that’s useful for automatically filling in flight data, but their dates are particularly difficult to parse.</description>
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      <title>2016 Year in Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Overall, my travel increased slightly this year. Unlike in 2015, my travel was relatively evenly spread throughout the year.</description>
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      <title>Ohio County Courthouses</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>In the summer of 2016, I visited every one of Ohio’s 88 counties.</description>
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      <title>Time Zone Changes</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Counting Visits to Airports: The Significance of Trip Sections</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/counting-visits-to-airports-the-significance-of-trip-sections/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/counting-visits-to-airports-the-significance-of-trip-sections/</guid>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Flight Log Version 2.0: Flight Historian</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/flight-historian-version-2-0/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/flight-historian-version-2-0/</guid>
      <description>New and changed features in version 2.0 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Historian.</description>
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      <title>2015 Year in Travel</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/2015-year-in-travel/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/no-im-not-flying-from-honolulu/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/no-im-not-flying-from-honolulu/</guid>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/size-comparison-of-the-busiest-us-airports/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/size-comparison-of-the-busiest-us-airports/</guid>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/finding-your-tail-number-when-you-cant-see-it/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/finding-your-tail-number-when-you-cant-see-it/</guid>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Each country has its own assigned format for tail numbers, so it&amp;rsquo;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.</description>
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      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/turbine-interchanges-in-cities-skylines/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/turbine-interchanges-in-cities-skylines/</guid>
      <description>I decided to try to create a 6-way turbine highway interchange in Cities: Skylines.</description>
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      <title>Flight Log Version 1.3: Distances and Annual Summaries</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/flight-log-version-1-3/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 1.3 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Log.</description>
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      <title>2014 Year in Travel</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/2014-year-in-travel/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://paulbogard.net/posts/2014-year-in-travel/</guid>
      <description>2014 has been a record travel year.</description>
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      <title>A Single Flight Round Trip at DFW</title>
      <link>https://paulbogard.net/posts/a-single-flight-round-trip-at-dfw/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Due to a mechanical issue, my flight had to return to Dallas.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 1.2 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Log.</description>
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      <title>Tulsa Travel</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>It’s not uncommon to have delays going through Chicago, but this Monday’s trip to Tulsa was a bit involved.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>For a while, over half of my total flights had been on American Airlines.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Comair’s strike meant I got to avoid the uselessly short flight between Cincinnati and Dayton.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Due to the system delays caused by Winter Storm Pax, my flights home on 14 February went through rather a lot of transitions.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>The end of 2013 is here, which seems like a perfect time to summarize my flight activity over the last year.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>New and changed features in version 1.1 of Paul Bogard’s Flight Log.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I was able to use BTS data to help me fill in a good portion of my missing tail numbers.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My long-term travel goal is to fly through 100 different airports.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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