Collins TM

2025 Travel Recap

Published May 28, 2026.

I tracked every flight I took in 2025.

By the numbers

In cosmic terms

I went around the Earth once, roughly. That's something.

Las Vegas was home base.

DEN, LAX, and RNO all tied at 4, which tells me I was splitting time between the Southwest and something pulling me toward the mountains.

Top airports

The extremes

Two flights defined the range of the year. One was barely worth packing a bag. The other crossed an ocean.

The Barcelona to Los Angeles leg is 25× longer than the shortest flight of the year. One of those I was asleep for most of. The other, I was probably checking my phone before we reached cruising altitude.

Airlines

Southwest led at 7 flights, United at 6, American at 4. The rest were smaller counts — Spirit for the budget runs (RIP), Iberia for the one international leg. I flew 7 different carriers in a single year, YAY fare-hunting

How the number was made

The big 30,689 up top is two HTML elements inside a wrapper div — no JavaScript, no libraries. The CSS does all the work: font-size: 3.8rem scales it up, letter-spacing: -0.02em tightens it so the digits sit closer together at large sizes, and line-height: 1 collapses the vertical space so the label underneath reads as a caption rather than a separate line.

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  <div class="big-label">miles flown in 2025</div>
</div>

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  padding: 2rem 0;
  border-top: 1px solid #e7e5e4;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #e7e5e4;
}
 
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  font-size: 3.8rem;
  font-weight: normal;
  letter-spacing: -0.02em;
  line-height: 1;
}
 
.big-label {
  font-size: 0.9rem;
  color: #78716c;
  margin-top: 0.4rem;
}

The border lines above and below the block are what give it weight on the page.