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2018 Travel in Review
2018 was a very busy year for me: I bounced between coasts a far bit, moved back to NYC in April, and spent a good chunk of time in Europe. A friend of mine asked me to list out all of my travel trips this year and I realized it was a good time to reflect on all the jet setting.
Here below is a list of them all, some close by and some far, and some photo highlights.
January
L) Jan 20, NYC — Visiting the Cloisters for the first time
R) Jan 28, Mountain View — Onboarding with my cohort
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February
L) Feb 5, Bethesda/DC — Attending a workshop on Academic Publishing at HHMI
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R) Feb 23, Lake Tahoe — Ski weekend in Tahoe for a friend’s birthday
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March
L) Mar 10, Big Sur — Camping trip
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R) Mar 24, Toronto — Design sprint workweek
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Mar 31, NYC — My move back to NYC!
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April
L) Apr 5, Miami — Friend’s bachelor party weekend
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R) Apr 8, Eindhoven — MozRetreat :Planning for Mozilla Festival
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Apr 17, SF/LA/Indio — Seeing Beyoncé et al. @ Coachella with crew
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May
May 10, New Orleans —my friends’ rad wedding weekend
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May 23, SF/Lake Tahoe —friend’s birthday weekend
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Fire Island — first week of June, July, August, September
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June
Jun 11, SF — All Hands
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August
Aug 6, Montreal — Neuroinformatics
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September
Sep 9, Paris — Remote working at its best
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Sep 12, Reims — Champagning
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Sep 14, Mykonos — Solo traveling
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Sep 17, Athens
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Sep 19, Aegina
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Sep 20, Split
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Sep 23, Zadar
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Sep 24, Toronto — Iodide Meetup
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October
Oct 11, Boston/Newburyport/Portland
Oct 18, Madrid — Visiting newly relocated friend
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Oct 21, Paris/Vincennes — Remote Work
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Oct 26, London — MozFest
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November
L) Nov 4, San Diego — Gave talk on FAIR Neuroscience panel @ Society for Neuroscience
R) Nov 5, SF — Remote work/AfroTech
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Nov 19, Charlotte — Thanksgiving
December
Dec 3, Orlando — All Hands
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