My dangling carrot is finally within reach! I’m heading to Ireland for two weeks… I have a rough game plan, but I’ve only booked something at the beginning and end of the trip; the rest, I’ll decide as I go.

(...oh, and I also went to San Francisco for the weekend recently. That counts as some kind of “travel” in my book. I flew Virgin America for the first time. What a strange but nice little airline…)