Overnights, 2022

[ckd]

Almost a year ago, I posted the 2021 list and closed it with "(2022 so far: Cambridge, MA / Boston, MA / Seattle, WA and BOS, LAX*, SEA.)".

That list from January 4th is the *entire* 2022 list.

Cambridge, MA
Boston, MA (only because my flight was cancelled and the replacement was an early morning flight, so I booked the airport Hilton for convenience)
Seattle, WA

Airports (* = connection only): BOS, LAX*, SEA.
(Almost added SJC as the "original" LAX-SEA part of my rebooking was also cancelled, but it seemed dubious to add yet another connection to what was supposed to be a nonstop and the LAX Sky Club was probably nicer than the lounge at SJC.)

Still managed to requalify for Platinum Medallion based on rollover miles from 2019/2020/2021 and the credit card waiver, but my Diamond years (extended status from a lot of 2019 travel) have come to an end at least for now.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

I wonder if I should count SJC on my list -- I picked up a rental car there, because the cheapest convenient way to get to SFO for a flight turned out to be to pick up a rental car at SJC and then return it at SFO.

My list is similarly short -- overnights were Mountain View, CA and Newport, VA; airports were SFO and RDU (a nonstop flight and then driving to Virginia, which turned out to take the same amount of time as a second hop to ROA and driving from there would have been). I'm still in Virginia, so that's only one flight for the year. I missed adding Guerneville, CA by a couple of days, since we came home from that trip just before 2021 ended.

It does seem odd that we both traveled more in 2021 than 2022.

[ckd]

2021 still had a mask mandate on airlines/in airports and, for most of it, no Omicron variant. Those changes significantly affected my risk budget calculations for 2022 and therefore knocked out the 2-3 trips I probably would have made with 2021-level risks.

Looking back at my overnights/airports posts I have marked some airports as "landside visit only" due to similar events (NEXUS interview at BFI, person pickup at PBG, rental car replacement at BTV) so I probably would have done the same for that. (Also, nice logistical hack there!)

[athenais]

Whereas I took my chances and made a long trip to Sweden, where I did not catch Covid, and a short trip to Vancouver, BC, where I did catch Covid. But I didn't pick it up in the airports. I blame eating out at restaurants in Canada. People weren't masking at all.

[zahraa]

It's rough shit, man. We're likely going to do virtual gaming this month, though, probably the 20th.

I did do over 13,000 mi in road trips, though.

[selki]

Philadelphia, Raleigh for me.