{"id":3308,"date":"2017-01-01T03:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2017-01-01T03:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T19:49:29","slug":"new-years-note-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/01\/01\/new-years-note-2017","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Note 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/31861737051\/\" title=\"Photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c4.staticflickr.com\/6\/5614\/31861737051_3869b4b966_q.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Photo\" align=\"right\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This year we are spending New Year&#8217;s Eve in Lisbon, Portugal, and I&#8217;m glad to report its much warmer than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/01\/01\/new-years-note-2016\">Vienna<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n<p>TripIt says I did 25 trips, 252 days on the road, 463,491km travelled, 47 cities, and 20 countries in 2016. So less travel in terms of distance than 2015 (528,151km) but more than 2014 (435,271km). As for travelling overall, only 252 days spent overseas (with this current trip not being counted), compared to 281 days in 2015, and 264 days in 2014 (so this overall trend suggests more time at home!). Or it was just a &#8220;down year&#8221;, since I did spend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/02\/new-years-note-2014\">223 days on the road in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to enjoying Lisbon. I say I&#8217;ll write here more, but that just doesn&#8217;t seem to pan out as well as I&#8217;d like it to. I do write a &#8220;log&#8221; in a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iQrh60\">Hobonichi Techo<\/a>, and still very much enjoy long form writing with pen and paper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, remember Gandhi&#8217;s quote, &#8220;Be the change you wish to see in the world,&#8221; and let&#8217;s enjoy 2017 (we know it&#8217;s going to be interesting from a geopolitical standpoint).<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20New%20Year%27s%20Note%202017&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F01%2F01%2Fnew-years-note-2017&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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