Sixteen years of going places

So far.

1. Argentina, Brazil, and ChileMay · 23 nights

   Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Iguazú, El Calafate and the Perito Moreno glacier, Torres del Paine.

Santa Cruz and Denver early in the year, Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Seattle in August, and a wedding in Vermont at the end of it.

A groove, then Asia.

1. Mexico CityMarch · 5 nights

   A short birthday trip.

2. ChicagoJune · 15 nights

   Dog and apartment sitting.

3. Thailand and TaiwanNovember – December · 17 nights

   Bangkok, then Taipei.

Seattle four times, Chicago twice, Yosemite in February.

Quieter, and mostly in one place.

1. Mexico City — seven staysJanuary – September · 68 nights

   January through September, plus Teotihuacán, the fireflies at Nanacamilpa, Tepoztlán.

2. San Francisco, full time againSeptember

   The last of the Mexico City stays ended in September.

Chicago in May, South Lake Tahoe in July, Seattle over New Year’s.

The year Mexico City stopped being a trip.

1. The 30th birthday tripMarch – April · 19 nights

   Los Angeles to Mexico City to Medellín. Nineteen days without coming home.

2. Mexico City — seven staysApril – December · 82 nights

   April, May, June, August, October, November, December — and sunrise on the Xochimilco canals.

3. JapanSeptember – October · 12 nights

   Tokyo, Hakone, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, Kamakura.

4. CozumelNovember · 8 nights

   Vacation and a friend's Ironman race.

Yosemite in firefall season, Seattle three times.

Flying again.

1. Oʻahu, Hawai'iMarch · 7 nights

2. Mexico CityJune – July · 18 nights

   The first long stay.

3. PortugalOctober · 14 nights

   Lisboa, Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Cascais.

4. Mexico City and OaxacaDecember · 23 nights

   Half of it in Oaxaca — Mitla, San Lorenzo Albarradas.

The Oregon coast, Hendy Woods, Tahoe in January.

1. Seattle and southern WashingtonApril · 14 nights

2. Utah's national parksMay · 8 nights

   Arches, Dead Horse Point, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef.

3. ChicagoJuly – August · 7 nights

Big Pine Lakes, Tahoe again and again, Yosemite, Lone Pine.

February was the last normal travel. Everything after it went by road.

1. Pacific Northwest road tripJuly · 11 nights

   Shasta-Trinity, Crater Lake, and down the Oregon coast.

2. Olympic PeninsulaNovember · 7 nights

   Forks, Quinault, Olympic National Park.

Two weeks through Los Angeles, Seattle and Tampa in February, then Tahoe, Yosemite, and the redwoods at Crescent City.

The widest range of any year.

1. Mexico CityMarch · 3 nights

   A first visit. Then nothing for three years.

2. Hong Kong, Macao and SeoulApril – May · 9 nights

3. Puerto VallartaAugust · 4 nights

4. San Francisco to Vancouver by roadOctober – November · 10 nights

   Up the coast — Lassen, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver.

Big Sur, the Black Rock Desert, a wedding in New York.

The busiest year on record.

1. England, Denmark, the Netherlands, BelgiumJuly · 10 nights

   London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Bruges — built around Tomorrowland.

2. ChinaNovember · 7 nights

   Beijing, Hebei, Shanghai.

Austin and Waco, Napa, Pismo Beach, the Lost Coast, Santa Barbara, Georgia, the Sonoma Coast, and New Year's in the redwoods.

1. Sweden and NorwayNovember · 16 nights

   Stockholm, then as far north as Tromsø to visit a friend — Arctic Norway in November to see the Northern Lights — and Oslo.

Coachella, Austin, Las Vegas, and a first Yosemite.

Settling in. Almost nothing on the record.

Portland in July, Boston at Halloween.

Graduated in May, then drove west and kept going.

1. Tampa to Orange County by roadMay · 14 nights

   Two weeks across the country — New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Albuquerque, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.

2. Orange County, CaliforniaMay – November

   Home for only six months, and then off to SF.

3. San FranciscoNovember

   Home ever since.

A semester on the other side of the world.

1. Sydney, AustraliaSeptember – December

   Semester abroad. Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef worked in around term.

2. TasmaniaDecember

3. Queenstown, New ZealandDecember · 5 nights

   Through Christmas, then back to Sydney for New Year's.

Two months across Europe. Half of it movement, half of it standing still.

1. EuropeMay – July · 53 nights

   London, Paris, Dublin, Liverpool, Lisbon, Seville, Madrid, Barcelona, Lucerne — then four weeks volunteering at a vineyard in Tuscany, with a break to Cinque Terre.

The backpacking summer — more ground than the next four years combined.

1. Israel and EuropeJune – August · 70 nights

   Israel first, then off to: Athens, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Interlaken, Florence, Rome, and Venice.

New Year's in Times Square, a service trip to Catalina Island in May.

Leaving home.

1. ArubaJuly · 7 nights

2. Tampa, FloridaAugust

   College. Home for the next four years.

Boston in June.