Nights Away, 2015 (full list)

[ckd]

Previously: 2013, 2014, 2015 (1st half)

As usual, listed by chronological order of first visit; * indicates multiple separate visits.

Montréal, QC
Boston, MA*
Santa Clara, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Millbrae, CA
Bloomington, MN
Southfield, MI
Pittsburgh, PA
Kahuku, HI
DL1212 HNL-LAX
[Madison, WI would have been here but I didn't make it to WisCon]
Pryor Creek, OK
St. Louis Park, MN
and for the second half:
Burlington, MA
DL411 JFK-DUB
Dublin, Ireland
Seattle, WA*
Steilacoom, WA*
[Spokane, WA would have been here, but I didn't make it to Worldcon]
Ames, IA
Portland, OR*
New Westminster, BC [1/2 night]

I both started and ended the year in Canada, but didn't make a complete visit to Canada during 2015.

Airports: (* connection only, @ landside visit only, % new to me in 2015)
BTV@%, BOS, MSP, SJC, SFO, JFK*, DTW, PIT%, HNL%, LAX*, ATL*, TUL%, DUB, CDG*, SEA, SLC*, DSM%

20 unique overnight locations (down from 26 in 2014) and 17 airports (down from 23). Planned-but-not-taken trips would have added at least two airports (MSN and GEG) and two cities (Madison and Spokane), but an unplanned trip (dead rental car) resulted in the landside stop at BTV.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Did you like Ames? I really did, when I was there a few years ago, and Des Moines was surprisingly pleasant as well.

[ckd]

I really liked Ames, though I think much of that was due to aedifica rather than Ames itself. Only saw a little of DSM (the airport, the sculpture garden, and a restaurant near the latter) but it also seemed pretty nice.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

The main art museum (which is connected to the sculpture garden) is surprisingly amazing. Like, "why do I have this weird belief that Iowa lacks awesome museums for no particular reason?" amazing.