I’ve got some travel plans in the works for 2025:
January: Panamá
February: Bahamas with my sister
March: Portugal for a friend’s birthday
May: Spain for our anniversary
August: Guyana with kiddo
November: possibly SE Asia with Melissa?
December: someplace with hot springs for Luke’s birthday
I was in Florida earlier this week and while our flight wasn’t impacted, more than half of flights that day were because of a major snowstorm that moved through the mid-Atlantic and SE. That was Monday, and tomorrow, Friday, the same thing is happening. (Two major winter events in one week in places that typically get no snow is truly exceptional; I thought Boston could have bad weather when I booked this trip, but I never expected Atlanta to be the bad weather city).
Of course, tomorrow was our planned departure date. Delta emailed and texted me repeatedly yesterday afternoon suggesting I proactively reschedule or cancel my flight, and that is how we ended up on the 5:40am Thursday flight. An extra day in 83-degree Panamá won’t be awful, but the 3:00am wake-up was not fun and the extra day off work (done via a mad last-minute scramble) was also far from ideal.
Regardless, we managed to drag our exhausted husks through immigration, navigated the (relatively new) metro, found our hotel, had some food, and went to the grocery store. By 8:00, we were done and off to bed. We have a busy next day filled with sloths, poisonous frogs, historical neighborhoods with food and shopping, and a canal to view, so rest is a must!
Vacation Days 