My Year In Cities

I've always liked Jason's "year in cities" recap that he posts at the start of a new year, so I thought I'd follow suit with my own list. Multiple visits are indicated by a number in parentheses after the city name. Interesting to see here that San Fran beats out DC (my original hometown and where my parents still live). Also, note that the multiple Vegas trips were all for speeches and not blackjack/strip clubs.

I haven't compiled this list in the past, but I think this would certainly be at least tied with the last year or two in terms of the volume and breadth of travel. (Both those years were book tour years, unlike this year, which adds at least six or seven cities to the list.) I can imagine that this data would be really interesting to look at over a twenty-year period, charting both the changes over time, and the overall distribution.

If you are a good friend of mine living in any of these cities, and I didn't manage to say hi on my way through, rest assured that my layover in most of these places was as short as humanly possible, given that my wife was at home with the three kids.

Brooklyn, NY
Washington, DC (6)
Grand Cayman
Helsinki, Finland
San Francisco (7)
Las Vegas (3)
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (2)
Orlando, Florida (2)
Palm Beach, Florida
New Brunswick, NJ
Indianapolis, IN
Minneapolis, MN
Boston, MA
Edgartown, MA
Los Angeles, CA
Manchester-By-The-Sea, MA
Clemson, SC
Pittsburgh, PA
Shelter Island, NY (3)
Providence, RI
Rochester, NY
Salt Lake City, UT
Birmingham, AL
Barcelona, Spain
London, UK
Chicago, IL
Montego Bay, Jamaica

Comments

[Jessica]

Impressive list. Salt Lake City is in Utah, by the way.

[Steven Johnson]

Good catch! I did realize that, just wrote up the list too quickly. It's corrected now.

[Reality]

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