Overnights, 2025

[ckd]

As usual, ordered by first visit and asterisks indicate multiple separate visits.

2025 got my travel ramping back up (finally), even though I only went to two conventions and one of them (Worldcon) was literally in my city (between my apartment and my usual airport, though technically there's also an airport with international service between my apartment and downtown -- LKE). Two overnights from delayed flights; both would have stuck me at DTW (Romulus, MI) except that for the second one I was able to rebook on the next morning's IAD-SEA nonstop instead.

The big trip was Kraków and environs, with a bonus pair of overnights in Calgary because business class YYC-KRK was literally half the price of SEA-KRK or YVR-KRK. Having NEXUS made a Canada stopover easy; though I kinda miss the old iris scan kiosks, the new facial recognition ones are a lot faster.

Cambridge, MA*
Seattle, WA*
Romulus, MI
Arlington, VA*
Calgary, AB, CA*
KL678 YYC-AMS
Kraków, PL*
Jaworze, PL
Balice, PL
Sneads Ferry, NC
Minneapolis, MN
Harrisonburg, VA
Sterling, VA
Port Townsend, WA
SeaTac, WA
Tysons, VA

Airports (connection-only*, new to me@): BOS, SEA, DTW (should have only been a connection, sigh), DCA, MSP, YYC@, AMS*, KRK@, ATL*, ILM@, IAD.

Comments

[ckd]

Romulus, Calgary, Balice, Sterling, and SeaTac were all airport hotels.

• Romulus and Sterling were airline-provided hotels due to flight delays.
• Calgary's hotel was originally chosen so that I could get away without a rental car by using the hotel shuttle, though I later decided to rent one anyway (during both stopovers) to give me a chance to see more of the area. (The hotel had free parking, and I got a pretty good rate on the cars too.)
• Balice was an optimization because my flight out of KRK was at ridiculous-o-clock in the morning (so early, the hotel gave me a grab-and-go breakfast bag since the regular breakfast wouldn't start being served until after I was on the plane). The hotel is literally across the street from the terminal and connected by the same skybridge used to get from the train station to the terminal, so I took the train out the night before.
• SeaTac was because aedifica had an early flight (though not as early as my KRK flight) and I could then take the light rail & bus home later in the day.

[hobbitbabe]

Yay including Calgary! I'm glad you got to see a bit of it, hope the weather was conducive! I live about 3 hours north of Calgary in Edmonton, but YEG isn't as much of an air hub as YYC.

I like to read about other people's travels. Was Poland new to you?

[minoanmiss]

yay travel!

[anne]

Happy New Year! Krakow, how neat!

[cmcmck]

Krakow is on our bucket list!

[davidgoldfarb]

My list is a bit shorter:

Austin, TX
Sorrento, IT
Naples, IT
Budapest, HU
St. Louis, MO
St. Helena, CA
Benicia, CA

New airports: FRA*, NAP, BUD, PHX*

[flexagon]

I'm happy for you!

Welcome to BOS and the, uh, joy that is Logan Airport. I hope it treated you well.

[bibliofile]

Yay, travel!

[loribarett]

My list:

Medford, MA
London, UK
Harrisonburg, VA
Budapest, Hungary
Cambridge, MA
New Orleans, LA

That’s a pretty good list for me.