Since I’m in an unusual (for me) travel lull right now, I decided to use the opportunity to do some cleaning up and enhancing of the spreadsheet I use to manage and remember all of my travel. I didn’t start getting serious about it until 15 years ago, so data before then is largely from memory and old family photos. I’m pretty sure I have most of the big trips in there, although it’s very possible the dates are a bit off. Anyways, a few interesting statistics:
Countries Visited to Date: 157 (39 to go)
Airports Visited to Date: 265
Lifetime Flight Miles: Over 1.89 million
Unique Airlines: 130
Countries with more than 10 nights spent:
United States – Over 14,000
Canada – 241
United Kingdom – 77
Netherlands – 60
Senegal – 29
France – 24
Thailand – 21
Singapore – 17
South Africa – 16
Soviet Union – 14
Argentina – 13
Germany – 12
Sri Lanka – 11
Australia – 10
Malaysia – 10
Borders crossed more than 5 times:
United States – Over 170
Canada – 67
United Kingdom – 49
Netherlands – 23
Germany – 18
Singapore – 15
Thailand – 12
France – 10
Belgium – 9
South Africa – 8
Malaysia – 7
Sri Lanka – 7
China – 5
Italy – 5
Domestic Flights by Country:
United States – More than 600
Canada – 15
Norway – 5
United Kingdom – 5
Malaysia – 4
Brazil – 3
Greece – 3
Guyana – 3
Soviet Union – 3
Thailand – 3
Australia – 2
Bolivia – 2
France – 2
Germany – 2
Peru – 2
South Africa – 2
Angola – 1
Argentina – 1
Ethiopia – 1
India – 1
Marshall Islands – 1
Micronesia – 1
Netherlands Antilles – 1
Greetings from Suchitoto, El Salvador.
Nice record keeping. Interesting you made so many border crossings in a random place like Sri Lanka — was that a series of business trips? You sort of have to go there on purpose.
Actually, when they still existed, I made very good use of the ex-CMB fares that were out there, and usually ended up spending a night in each direction.
Very cool stats. Is it possible to share your spreadsheet template or how it is set up exactly?
Andrei – great idea! I’ll make my next blog a post about how I track all of this stuff!