London by the Numbers

London. I have been dreaming about visiting London for a very long time. I knew that I would eventually make my way to the UK, but we had never quite prioritized this destination. Even this trip was not a long-planned one. Originally we had planned on a trip to California with my brother and his wife later in the fall, but given the political climate, the wildfires that ravaged LA last year, and the horrendous exchange rate between the US and Canada, we pivoted. Isabelle and I found a good deal on flights to London, so off we went.

When looking back at the trip to London that Isabelle and I took just about a month ago, a lot of different numbers presented themselves to me. I thought this would make for an interesting take on my traditional back-from-vacation post. With that in mind, here’s my London by the Numbers.

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A Year of Living Intentionally

We are now more than a month into 2025.  Crazy how time flies… I was very low-key for January, wanting to just take some time for myself, to recharge the batteries, to give myself space to decide where I wanted to put my energy for the year.  I had decided in December that this was what I wanted to do.  So, I jumped into the new year with a single mindset in place – to live more intentionally. 

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The Obligatory Egypt Post

One week ago today, I returned from my epic trip to Egypt. I’m still processing everything about the trip, which explains why I have yet to publish a new blog post on this topic. I tried to start writing it during some of my downtime at the end of the trip, but it just wouldn’t come. I thought about it over the past week, but it still would not flow. Maybe I was trying to hard to summarize everything that I experienced, everything that I saw, everything that I felt over the course of my 17 day trip.

Today, I will try to put a few words down. It will not be an in-depth, detailed tour summary. I just want to summarize the trip high-level(-ish), and talk about how and why the trip was important to me. So here we go.

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