Travel – Kara McNair

I don’t travel as much as I’d like (given that I’d like to always be travelling) but I have done a decent amount of it. Bill & I sat down a few weekends ago and dug through our travel folders full of tickets, maps, journals, receipts, and non-digital photos to catalogue where we’ve been (so far).

I do plan to flesh out posts for each of these trips, with photos and stories (and hoo-boy, do some of them have stories!) but this list is a great start for me – it serves as an outline for what I need to write and backfill as well as reminding me of how lucky I am to have had these opportunities and acting as a ‘gratitude’ prompt.

Here’s a list of the places (other than regular trips to cities within Canada*) that I’ve been (mostly with Bill, a few without), since 1996.

Feb 2015	Cozumel, Mexico; Ambergris Caye, Belize
Apr 2014	Roatan, Honduras; Ambergris Caye, Belize
Nov 2013	Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Oct 2013	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jun 2013	Kawartha Lakes, Ontario
May 2013	Placencia, Belize; Ambergris Caye, Belize
Feb 2013	Laguna Beach, California
Dec 2012	Laguna Beach, California
Feb 2012	Placencia, Belize; Ambergris Caye, Belize
Nov 2011	Papagayo, Costa Rica
Feb 2011	Turks & Caicos
Nov 2010	Varadero, Cuba
Feb-Mar 2010	Lembeh Strait, Indonesia; West Papua, Indonesia
Jan 2010	New York City, New York
Jul 2009	San Francisco, California
Jun 2009	Honolulu, Hawaii
Apr 2009	New York City, New York
Nov 2008	Puerto Aventuras, Mexico
Oct 2008	New York City, New York
Dec 2007	St. Lucia
Jul 2007	San Francisco, California
Mar 2007	Cozumel, Mexico
Sep 2006	Chicago, Illinois
Aug 2006	Washington, DC
Feb 2006	Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba
Nov 2005	Cozumel, Mexico
June 2005	New York City, New York
Feb 2005	Cayo Largo, Cuba
Jan-Mar 2004	Malaysia; Thailand; Burma
Apr 2003	Cozumel, Mexico
??	Missing data – will seek further. I’m sure there was a trip in here
Jan-Jul 1999	Indonesia; Malaysia Thailand; Singapore; Hong Kong
Feb 1997	Barbados

* I’ve done the North-American-centric thing of using states & provinces as the ‘qualifier’ in NA locations but countries in other ones (except Mexico). My apologies – I’m assuming that most of my readers will know that California is in the US and Ontario is in Canada, and it keeps the line lengths shorter.

I’m going on vacation next month so it feels like the perfect time to start building out the ‘Travel’ section of this site. Since this site runs on WordPress.com rather than personal hosting, I’m limited to their functionality around how to build dynamic pages. I’ll be using WordPress’s ‘Category Pages’ instruction to build the travel section.

We’re going to be going to Belize for a few days (to pay some property taxes and chat with our delightful realtor Kyle Thomas) and then we’re headed to the Iberostar Cozumel for 10 days, to laze about and dive with the almost unbelievably highly rated BLUE Project shop (for the record, all our contact with them so far lives up to those amazing reviews).

We’ve been to the Iberostar Cozumel twice before, once as part of a 2-week/2-hotel deal that the Iberostars offered (1 week at a resort in Playa del Carmen, then 1 week at the one on Cozumel), then we stayed there again in 2003 (the featured image on this post is the pool bar in 2003. Bill is doing lengths in the very shallow pool, but is currently underwater).

[I’ll also figure out what it takes to only post snippets of Travel posts to the home page, so as to not overload this primary. My initial guess is that it’ll require creating a ‘Main Page’ category page & making that the home page. But I’ll describe the process when I figure it out]

a work in progress

Category: Travel

Where’s Kara Been (So Far)?

Creating a ‘Travel’ page