View from our hotel in Paris 2024 was a hectic year. A lot of wonderful things happened, but I am very excited to see it end and to start fresh in 2025. This year we spent 21 weekends away from home (compared to 24 in 2023); but of those, only 4 were spend traveling (to Carbondale to see the eclipse; DC and Virginia for a work trip and staycation with a wonderful friend, Wisconsin with my family, and a whirlwind 9-day eurotrip honeymoon redo). Those trips don't come close to the 11 places I visited last year. One writing-related highlight to the last trip is that I got to meet 2 more of my writing group members in person, when 4 of us all coincidentally converged on London at the same time! The largest reason for all the travel this year was... we moved! The process of buying a new house, selling the old one, and moving between the two included 8 round-trips between them over 3 exhausting months, on top of the endless rounds of paperwork and hours on the phone with our vario...
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