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Cake day: March 18th, 2025

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    1. Canada (I live here)
    2. USA (many many family/friend visits since I was a child; also lived there for ~6 years as an adult)
    3. England (one week in London, one week in the South Downs)
    4. Denmark (three weeks for a family visit)
    5. France (a weekend in Paris)
    6. Belgium (about 2-3 days in Bruges)
    7. The Netherlands (about 2-3 days in Delft)
    8. Germany (roughly 6 hours, driving from Belgium to Denmark)














  • My spouse and I were broke grad students with a baby on the way. We needed a car. Someone in our tiny town was selling a 1992 Accord for $1000 (this was in the early 2010s). We bought it and put in another $1000 to get it to run.

    The only problem? It was a stick shift. I didn’t know how to drive standard; at the time, my spouse didn’t drive at all. I tried to learn, but I was so nauseated from my pregnancy that I nearly puked every time the car lurched… which was often. I never did get the hang of it. Eventually we bought a newer automatic car and traded the Accord in for a whopping $250.

    These days we could weather a $2000 mistake without too many problems, but back then… yeah, that one hurt.