Wow, has travel dropped down
Every year near the end of the year I take a look at my travel stats for the year. I don't anticipate another trip this year, so I can wrap up the numbers. I now have stats on the last 11 years, going back to 2007. The first 7 years and last 4 years look quite different. From 2007 through 2013, I averaged flying 51,166 miles per year and spending 24.3% of the nights (including weekends) away from home. I averaged 25.8% of business nights (nights before working the next day) away from home. Starting in 2014, things changed drastically. Over the last 4 years, I have averaged 7,055 flight miles per year, 8.1% of total nights away from home and only 3.1% of business nights away from home. I've averaged 7 nights per year staying in a hotel room on business trips. This year I had 2 personal airline trips and 2 business airline trips. The number of vacations really hasn't changed over the course of my travels - I averaged 21.2 nights away from home on personal vacations from 2...