Category Archives: Trip Reports

Guayaquil, Ecuador to Irvine, CA in 16 Hours on 4 Flights

GYE Home

Guayaquil, Ecuador to Irvine, CA in 16 Hours on 4 Flights

Greetings from Guayaquil, Ecuador!  I am on my way back from the Galapagos Islands and Guayaquil is the only city that flies to/from the Galapagos.  Currently, I am staying at the Sheraton Guayaquil Hotel (hotel review and pictures to come shortly) on cash and points (3,500 SPG points + $55 = 4.14 cpp).

GYE SPG

My 16 hour journey begins at 7am tomorrow morning, flies through Miami, Tampa, Phoenix, and lands in Orange County, CA (SNA) at 9pm tomorrow night.

4 Flights

In case you were wondering, Guayaquil is in the Central Time Zone and is 2 hours behind the Pacific Time Zone.

GYE to SNA

I have a lot of info and some beautiful pictures to share.  Stay tuned for more to come.

Blue Footed Boobies

A friend asks: How many miles will you fly this year?

Math Numbers Equations

A friend asks: How many miles will you fly this year?

He wanted to know if I flew more than 100,000 miles, but I told him it was probably less than 10,000 miles for the year.  After he left, I started thinking more and though it was around 25,000 miles flown.  I kept thinking of trips I took earlier this year and trips that were coming up and wanted to get an exact number.

I wrote down all my flight segments and went on Great Circle Mapper to find the actual distances.  I’ve gone on quite a few trips this year and have plenty more flying through the rest of this year.  All my travel is personal, paid with miles or cash.

Total Miles Flown

I added up all the numbers and this is what I got… 44,624 flown miles, wow!  That might be my best year ever!

Air France 670
WestJet 1,081
LAN 1,455
United 4,841
Southwest 5,222
Alaska 6,337
American 12,503
US Airways 12,515
 TOTAL: 44,624

As you can tell, I’m literally “all over the map” (pun intended) with my airlines and don’t fly any airline exclusively.  How many miles will you have flown by the end of the year?  Let me know in the comments below.