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I started Day of the Jackal a while ago and I have no idea why, but I just cannot get through it. It must be my state of mind rather than the book, as I adored the previous novel I read by Forsyth – The Fist of God. I must slog through it so I can get to another book before I have forgotten how to read.

Well I’m not sure when I decided to do this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I added it as a goal when I joined 43things, about 6 years ago. And I laugh to see it today. I still only have a foggy idea of all of these places and their borders but I am aware nowadays when they change. Welcome South Sudan to the stage everyone.

I have two more places to add to the list – Portland, Maine and Washington, DC. We visited family in Maine, I stepped in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, and went boogie boarding! The water was cold, but feeling the tide was amazing. And my husband and I went to Washington, DC – the first trip for both of us to our nation’s capital. We saw so much, but it felt a little like a working vacation, with so much to see. And there’s not much I can brag about in regards to their cafes and pubs (either formal or cluby or just plain non-existent). This most recent trip made me appreciate where we live all the more and I was really happy to get home, to my city of Chicago.