So it’s barely February and I’m already beginning to fill up my schedule with plans for the year. On deck this month, for the last half of the month I’ll be in LA for 4 days, then Seattle for 2, then back to LA for 7 and then home. Seattle only happened since I’m headed out for work and will be gone for 2 weekends and with hotels in LA being full President’s Day weekend, I had to find another arrangement. Since it’s a 3 day weekend and I don’t expect many people to be around the office out there it makes sense to just get away for a couple days in the middle of the trip. I was going to pick San Francisco but flights to there were more expensive than Seattle and I haven’t been up to the Pacific Northwest in about 15 years. The last time I was there I still wasn’t legal to get into the bars so I figure I’ll give it a go. I had considered just flying home for a couple days and then back out but I really don’t want to spend that much time in transit to only be home for such a short amount of time.
March and most of April it looks like I’ll be home though with one project supposed to finish by the end of the month and another starting up that’s working with the peeps out in LA again, I’m not sure if I’ll end up on a plane heading out there again in that time frame. After that, I’m dragging Ryan at the end of April over to Iceland for a day, then Amsterdam for 3 days, then London for a few days and finally Manchester. That’s almost all ticketed and booked, just haven’t dealt with the train tickets to Manchester yet or the hotel. I figure I can deal with that in the next couple weeks before I head to LA. Plus there’s a chance we could end up doing a stop off in Birmingham on the way to Manchester. I might also drag him on a day trip down to Brighton during the time in London since I’ve been down there once before and it reminded me of a British version of Santa Cruz in a lot of ways.
Then we’re home in May and given this side trip up to Seattle, I don’t think we’re going to swing even a couple days in Chicago for Memorial Day weekend and IML this year when I factor in that we’ll be getting Six Flags season passes and will more than likely be crashing the gay campground in Pennsylvania at least a couple times.
June, ugh, I hate that month. I turn a year older and it collides with Pride weekend this year. We’re probably going to have the backyard set up by then and will do some grilling. 4th of July if they do fireworks over the Hudson river again we might have a decent view of them from here, or at least with a walk down to the cliff. Then it’s doldrums of summer until Labor Day. Then, Fall should be semi-interesting but I need to figure out a short trip or two for that time of year. Winter, I think I’m going to plan some sort of getaway to finally see the Northern Lights and maybe hit Berlin. It’s been ages since I went.
Somewhere in all this, I need to plan in a trip or two to Philly to visit the friends down there, a trip to crash Baltimore and expend some vacation time and perhaps a jaunt over to Chicago but not for IML. Also on my list of places to go again are Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and then at some point Copenhagen and if I’m lucky, Greenland. I need a teleporter, sitting on planes for so much time is really annoying!