I visited Texas twice in spring 2022. Spring must be the best time of year to visit Texas — the weather was downright idyllic!
While I just spent the past two years in Boston for my MBA at Harvard Business School, I happened to experience it as a "tourist" across the seasons. For continuity, let's start with winter 2022.
During this period, I was weirdly living a dual life: I spent half my time traveling out and about as though COVID were a distant memory (with friends or for work), or completely entrenched in an antisocial hermit life back home in Mississauga. Fear not, come summer 2022, things on this blog will go back to regularly scheduled programming.
A great perk in the consulting world is alt travel. While I was working in the Prairies, I took advantage of this perk by staying the weekend in Lake Louise and Banff. I admit, this is a bit of a weird blog post to write since it was so intrinsically tied with Valentine’s and birthday celebrations for my ex. But we carry on!
My workplace enabled me to participate in a special analytics training. Little did I know how lucky I was: in 2019, the program gave me an excuse to visit Miami, which turned out to be the last cohort before the program went virtual due to COVID. Naturally, others like Cait and Malcolm decided to opportunistically seize the opportunity to tour around over the weekend with me.
Witty title credits go to Kim Namjoon of BTS, with the lovely song "Seoul."
A while ago, I got the scintillating opportunity to visit... the Canadian prairies in the wintertime. I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea to fly to Saskatoon and Calgary in -35ºC weather two years in a row, but I did (and lived to tell the tale!).
After some fun by the surf, it was time for the turf (lol)! Welcome to San Igancio, the jungle-y inland of Belize. I'm SO glad we split up the trip into these two distinct regions. It added a lot of variety and made me appreciate both aspects of the country.