Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

I was looking at my TripIt stats today. Since I started using it (January 2008), I have traveled 250,884 miles. That covers 130 trips. The average distance of my trips have been going down since moving back to Illinois. I have more trips to the east coast than the west coast, and now that I'm in Illinois instead of Colorado, I'm obviously closer to the east coast.

As I sit here in the O'Hare Admirals Club on my way back from Washington DC, I decided to see if I was still on pace for my 2013 status on American and Hilton. The end of August will be around 67% of the way through the year (8 out of 12 months, don't know the actual day number). This final flight today will get me to 41 segments (out of 60 needed), which is 68% of the way toward next year's status. And the hotel stay I just completed will make 18 stays and 41 nights. I need 28 stays, so I'm 64% of the way there, or 60 nights, which is 68% of the way there. Last year at this time I was behind schedule but ended up making it with a lot of creative scheduling of flights and hotels over the last three months of the year.