{"id":1278,"date":"2018-01-13T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T22:41:38","slug":"my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2017","title":{"rendered":"my year in cities and towns, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/35525641394\/in\/album-72157678164529720\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/35525641394_a07dfbf4ef_k.jpg\" alt=\"showing the foot of a wooden bed with a crane photo on the wall behind it.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/35525641394_a07dfbf4ef_k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/35525641394_a07dfbf4ef_k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/35525641394_a07dfbf4ef_k-525x700.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year I spent a lot of time away from home but it wasn&#8217;t great for travel per se. I spent nearly two solid month&#8217;s at my mom&#8217;s place before and after she died. I can&#8217;t quite say that I enjoyed it, but being in one place, in that place, was useful for me. 2018 is going to be a year of less travel I think. I&#8217;ve got two airplane trips planned and I&#8217;m not planning to add any more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157678164529720\/with\/35525641394\/\">Here are all the places<\/a>. Seven states. Three provinces. Stars indicate multiple visits to the exact same place. Past years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2016\/12\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2016\">2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2016\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2015\">2015<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2014\">2014<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2011\">2011<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/2011\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2010\">2010<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157612779175501\/detail\/\">2009<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2008\">2008<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2008\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2007\">2007<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2006\/12\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2006.html\">2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/06\/jan.shtml#14\">2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Niceville FL &#8211; a great way to kick off the year with some sunshine and friendly librarians\n<li>Cambridge MA* &#8211; Deb&#8217;s place is always good for the soul\n<li>Toronto ON &#8211; a weird AirBnB and a great visit\n<li>Toronto ON &#8211; Gabe&#8217;s duplex was a better resting place\n<li>Stow MA* &#8211; chilling post-Superbowl at Kate&#8217;s\n<li>Westport MA* &#8211; planned to spend more time here than I actually did\n<li>Montreal QC &#8211; a catsit and a trip that was supposed to be a vacation with Jim\n<li>Crystal City VA &#8211; a fun library conference and a chance to see a lot of library friends\n<li>Washington DC &#8211; MeFites put me up and showed me the town, so lovely\n<li>Brooklyn NY* &#8211; wound up here twice, the couch is fine but the love is great\n<li>Brooklyn NY &#8211; hamsters!\n<li>Weir&#8217;s Beach NH &#8211; Fun Spot was one of the year&#8217;s highlights\n<li>Cambridge MA &#8211; another catsit, another funny little bed\n<li>Concord NH &#8211; I spent a lot of time sleeping not far from home\n<li>Boxboro MA* &#8211; moved in and did not leave for a while\n<li>Edmonton AB &#8211; a great conference center\n<li>Edmonton AB &#8211; the swank apartment of an old family friend\n<li>Baraboo WI &#8211; place was as weird as it seems but the conference was grand\n<li>Saratoga Springs NY &#8211; Liked this Hilton, loved this conference\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2017\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to my year in cities and towns, 2017\"><p>Last year I spent a lot of time away from home but it wasn&#8217;t great for travel per se. I spent nearly two solid month&#8217;s at my mom&#8217;s place before and after she died. I can&#8217;t quite say that I enjoyed it, but being in one place, in that place, was useful for me. 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,282,182,83,4,3,326],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-cities","tag-data","tag-guestrooms","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","tag-travel","tag-wrapup","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}