Our return from St. Louis marked the end of our 2017 Travels.  It’s been an amazing year and I am looking forward to 2018.  Our next trip is to Florida in January. In an article dated July 31st, 2017, I broke the numbers down for the first half of our year.  I’ll list the numbers for the second half of the year and then I’ll do a grand total for 2017. We started the second half with a trip to Santa Fe, NM and ended the year in St. Louis, MO.

1. 12 trips, ranging from 1-7 days
2. Stayed in 12 different hotel Brands
3. Stayed in 1 VRBO
4. Stayed in 1 AirBnB
5. Flew ~11,000 Air Miles
6. Drove ~8,740 Miles
7. Rented 6 Vehicles
8. Used 3 Ubers
9. Endured 9 different Airports
10. Held Lilly’s hand for 24 airplane take-offs and landings
11. Visited 12 US States

Clearly the second half of the year was a bit more sedate than the first half.

Here are the combined numbers for Travelinggump.com’s 2017 Travels:

1. 28 Trips, ranging from 1-17 days.
2. Stayed a total of 119 nights in various Hotels
3. Stayed in 2 VRBO’s
4. Stayed in 1 AirBnB
5. Flew ~60,000 Air Miles
6. Drove ~15,440 Miles
7. Rented 13 vehicles
8. Endured 31 Airports ( A few more than once).
9. Held Lilly’s hand for 86 take-offs and landings
10. Visited 19 US States
11. Visited 5 different Countries
12. Took 7 buses
13. Took 4 Taxi’s
14. Used Uber 9 times
15. Used Lyft once
16. Used one Roller Coaster to get to and from the Great Wall of China
17. Used 3 Tuk-Tuks
18. Added well over 1.5 Million Points/Miles to my travel portfolio
19. Reached Diamond status with Hilton, Platinum with Marriott/Ritz and Starwood, Spire Elite with IHG (Intercontinental and Holiday Inn) and Discoverist with Hyatt (Ho-Hum).
20. Loved Every Single Minute Of It All! (except maybe the tummy bug I caught in Vietnam, not so much).

Wishing you Happy Travels and a Wonderful 2018!

Michael