2023: The Travel Year in Review
In all my years of compiling end-of-year travel recaps, I have had a lot of good years. Like 2016, when I visited 29 countries in a single year. Or 2011, when I graduated college...
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by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 9, 2024 · Last modified January 18, 2024
In all my years of compiling end-of-year travel recaps, I have had a lot of good years. Like 2016, when I visited 29 countries in a single year. Or 2011, when I graduated college...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 3, 2023 · Last modified January 18, 2024
Life may look a little strange during these, ahem, “unprecedented times,” but if there’s one tried and true tradition I can stick with, it’s my annual travel recap. Can you believe I’ve now been...
Annual Travel Recaps / Knott's Berry Farm / Other
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published June 12, 2022 · Last modified January 18, 2024
A year-end recap published in June? That is just wacky. But one of my favorite traditions is my annual travel year in review post: since 2011, I’ve wrapped up each year by looking back...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 31, 2021 · Last modified January 18, 2024
Each year for the past nine years, I’ve published a “Travel Year in Review” post with month-by-month recaps of that year’s top adventures. While some years were considerably more eventful than others, I’ve always...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 30, 2020 · Last modified January 18, 2024
“Happy New Year!” I proclaim, blowing an imaginary noisemaker, throwing invisible confetti, and conveniently ignoring the fact that I’m a month late in posting my end-of-year roundup. Forgive me for my unseemly procrastination, but...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published April 15, 2019 · Last modified January 18, 2024
I know, I know! We’re already a third of the way through 2019, and here I am talking about 2018. But since 2011, I’ve finished off each year by looking back on the places...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 3, 2018 · Last modified January 18, 2024
Well, folks, we made it through another year. And what a year it was. While most of the world sought redemption for the world events of 2016 but were met with a new crop of issues,...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published January 22, 2017 · Last modified January 18, 2024
I’ve declared it already: 2016 was the best year ever. Since 2011, I’ve summarized my travel-filled years (see my posts from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015), but no year has ever come close...