i just ran some year end numbers and discovered my travel has actually been on the decline...
2022: 120 days → 4.0 months
2023: 88 days → 2.9 months
2024: 43 days → 1.4 months
2025: 68 days → 2.3 months
2026: 72 days estimated → 2.4 months
as i look through my spreadsheets i had actually set a goal at one point to try to travel at least 120 days... look like that started around 2022... but i was SEVERELY UNHAPPY then and hated where i lived.
i think in 2023... i spent a lot of time in 1 place... looking for a new place to live. and traveled a bit for work. here's the breakdown:
in 2024... i really settled into my new town so didn't need to travel as far...
i think in 2025 (which just ended yesterday)... i'm not sure... let me look back at my spreadsheet
whoops i'm already signed out
ok, back in. so for 2025 it's 68 days or a little over 2 months... it looks to be several big trips - 10 days in east africa; 10 days national parks trip; 10 days for summer camp. went to dominican republic for a little less than a week. oh and ended the year with a nearly 2 week cruise adventure.
so a little adventure, a little getaway, a little mental clearing.
2026 is trips purely for fun.
right now we're about 2.5 months.
that seems like a nice middle 2 to 3 months in early retirement.
arbitrarily part of me wants to tack on an 18 day trip just to meet 120 days.. but there's no need. i'm not running away from anything. and oh yeah! i have no budget for that! lol
feels weird to say that!
i have 4 months until my next trip. in my mind it felt like such a large amount of time, but saying it out loud... that's a pretty average amount of time.
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