Question of the Day: Shop For Travel

9 – Coming of Age Day: What does coming of age mean to you? What, if any, coming of age ceremonies or rituals are practiced where you live?

Is it weird that I don't know how to answer this? Catholics have coming of age ceremonies, but I noped out of Catholicism when I got to the "girls can't be Pope" revelation and never really went back.

Various pagan circles I've run in have their own version of this but I didn't really participate in those either. Honestly they all seem kind of arbitrary to me.

10 – Shop for Travel Day: First celebrated in 2018, Shop for Travel Day has continued annually on the second Tuesday of the year ever since. The reason for it being situated at this time on the calendar has to do with the fact that, in many cases, the early weeks of January are an especially advantageous time to shop for travel due to many companies offering special deals and discounts. When was the last time you travelled within your own country? How about outside of your own country? If money (and time) were no object, where would you love to travel to?

Last trip in-country was Montreal in November, last trip outside was Switzerland in March. I'm much more wary of travelling now that they've removed vaccine and testing requirements and masking for travel.

My sister is currently in Greece, and I'd love to visit while she's there, but that's going to depend on both money and how safe it feels to travel.

And if I do travel, I'm gong to need a new suitcase, because Air France mangled mine.

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Got the heating & electric bills for January and hoooo boy. Having a) no back wall and b) the pumps running 24/7 and the spot-heaters blasting while they work means travel is probably not happening any time real soon.

Also food bills. I'm hoping I'll be able to get some plants in the ground this summer, but that will depend on how fast work progresses since my beds are currently buried under piles of mud and concrete shards. The contractors were onsite yesterday thumping and banging around. (And swearing. Lots of swearing.) So I guess work is progressing? I stuck my head outside while I was doing the laundry and they have this tent set-up going on, I guess to try and minimize the amount of snow and melt water they have to deal with.