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[Bloganuary] Road Trip!
This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024.Today's prompt is:
Think back on your most memorable road trip.
Runners-up
It didn't take me long to choose a most-memorable road trip, but first: here's a trio of runners-up that I considered:
A midwinter ascent
On the last day of 2018,Wonder Boy
There are video games that I've spent many years playing (sometimes on-and-off) before finally beating them for the first time. I spent three years playing Dune II before I finally beat it as every house. It took twice that to reach the end of Ultima Underworld II. But today, I can add a new christmas, game, games, arcade games, video games, nostalgia, travelHave Fun with Missions, Visions, and Values
I just spent a lightweight week in Rome with fellow members of Automattic's Team Fire.
Among our goals for the week was an attempt to strengthen the definition of who are team are, what we work on, and how and why we do so. That's basically a team-level identity, mission, vision, and values, automattic, board games, games, work, rome 2023, travel, dungeons and dragons, game, published on geminiTravelling light
Now that travel for work is back on the menu, I've been trying to upgrade my "pack light" game.
I've been inspired in part by Beau, who I first met during my trip to South Africa in 2019 during my Automattic onboarding. Beau travelled from the US for a two week jaunt with nothing but handAutomattic Privilege
I've been thinking recently about three kinds of geographic privilege I enjoy in my work at Automattic. (See more posts about my experience of working at Automattic.)
1. Timezone Privilege
Take a look at the map below. I'm the pink pin here in Oxfordshire. The green pins are my immediate team - automattic, geography, brexit, languages, language, employment, work, job, travel, teleworking, maps, passport, timezonesHolidays in the Age of COVID
We've missed out on or delayed a number of trips and holidays over the last year and a half for, you know, pandemic-related reasons. So this summer, in addition to our trip to Lichfield, we arranged a series of back-to-back expeditions.
1. Alton Towers
The first leg of our holiday saw us spend aLichfield
We took a family trip up to Lichfield this weekend. I don't know if I can give a "review" of a city-break as a whole, but if I can: I give you five stars, Lichfield.
Maybe it's just because we've none of us had a night away from The Green... pretty-much since we moved in, last year. But trips, children, covid-19, family, travel, holiday(Untitled)
I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. 🇿🇦🌅😍
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