6 commentsMy year in cities, 2009
See also: my 2008 list.
Here’s my 2009 list, not in any particular order. Cities written in bold are ones I hadn’t been before (as far as I know).
- San Francisco, CA
- Mountain View, CA
- Oakland, CA
- Berkeley, CA
- New York, NY
- Stamford, CT
- Avon, CT
- Boston, MA
- Plymouth, MA
- Bethlehem, PA
- Jersey City, NJ
- Tahoe, CA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Fresno, CA
- Santiago, Chile
- Viña del Mar, Chile
- Santiago, Chile
- Vaparaiso, Chile
- Punta de Choros, Chile
- La Serena, Chile
- Valle de Elqui, Chile
- Dallas, TX
- Barcelona, Spain
- Paris, France
- Madrid, Spain
- Toledo, Spain
- Cordoba, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Badger, CA (King’s Canyon National Park)
- San Diego, CA
(Criteria is that I have to spend a night or a significant portion of a day in the city for it to count. Suburbs rounded up to the nearest city at my discretion)
This has been an amazing year of travel for me. I don’t forsee matching that in 2010, but who knows.
Some places I’d like to go next year, off the top of my head:
- Washington, DC
- Portland, OR
- Las Vegas, NV
- Italy
- UK
- Ireland
- Santa Monica, CA
All these are possibilities in addition to trips to Avon, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, Boston, and maybe New York. I haven’t actually made any travel plans for 2010, though.
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That’s a pretty great list! I’ll have to add SF to my list in 2010… and maybe DC.
where’s the google map to go with it? your employers would be very disappointed
@Ashley – Definitely!
@irina Yeah, you’re right. I thought about that when posting this, but it was rather late, so I decided not to. It’d be cool to have a map including several years of travel with pictures and stuff, maybe I’ll have it for next year.
This is a fantastic idea. You, sir, have inspired me to want to write my own Year in Cities entry. Not to do so per se, but certainly to want to.
ps. Where I’ve Been (whereivebeen.com) has an embeddable map of where you have been, have lived, and want to go. Let’s see if this works:
Credit for the idea goes to Jason Kottke, who has been doing this on his blog for several years: http://kottke.org/09/12/my-year-in-cities-2009
whereivebeen.com looks pretty cool.. I haven’t seen that one before. Once I get around to mapping stuff, I’ll take a closer look.
@ Matt and Ashley —- DC DC!!! There’s a place waiting for you to crash!!!— and I’d be down for going to San Fran this year too.
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