{"id":1730,"date":"2025-01-11T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2025-01-11T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:38:05","slug":"my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2025\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2024","title":{"rendered":"my year in cities and towns, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/54258604779_94922b7db4_c.jpg\" alt=\"photograph of a bed in a small guesrtoom. There is a small cat on the bed and a large chicken head from a mascot costume\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/54258604779_94922b7db4_c.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/54258604779_94922b7db4_c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/54258604779_94922b7db4_c-525x700.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing this guestroom tracking for twenty years! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72177720323106973\/\">Last year I went one place, twice, for one night each<\/a>. I am  enjoying staying put, still. No hotels at all. The longer I stay away from hotels and airplanes, the more they seem mysterious and unpleasant to me. There&#8217;s a rhythm to local life here, one that I wasn&#8217;t as in tune with when I was traveling as much. I&#8217;d still like to get out and about a bit more, go down to Westport, see my sister more than twice, do fun things with Jim in distant locations, see my non-local friends more than rarely.<\/p>\n<p>Past years: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2023\">2023<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2023\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2022\">2022<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2021\/12\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2021\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2020\">2020<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2020\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2019\">2019<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2019\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2018\">2018<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2017\">2017<\/a>, <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2025\/01\/my-year-in-cities-and-towns-2024\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to my year in cities and towns, 2024\"><p>I&#8217;ve been doing this guestroom tracking for twenty years! Last year I went one place, twice, for one night each. I am enjoying staying put, still. No hotels at all. The longer I stay away from hotels and airplanes, the more they seem mysterious and unpleasant to me. There&#8217;s a rhythm to local life here, [&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":[323,282,182,4,324,326],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-cities","tag-data","tag-guestrooms","tag-me","tag-towns","tag-wrapup","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","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=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}