• Steve Carroll and his son need to visit 25 unique JetBlue cities to lock Mosaic status for 25 years. • He is spending about $7,000 on the adventure and is set to finish it in Fort Myers on December 8. • He blazed creative routes, flying to Nantucket for breakfast, DC for lunch, and Orlando for dinner.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Steve Carroll, a New York-based nurse practitioner who chased JetBlue's "25 for 25" challenge to earn 350,000 points and Mosaic status for 25 years by flying to 25 unique cities by December 31. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Breakfast in Massachusetts, lunch in DC, dinner in Orlando, and back home by midnight. That was one of the epic days that my 10-year-old son and I recently flew — all for JetBlue Airways' "25 for

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