A balance of familiar ground and a few new turnings, orbiting Minsk between everything else, and it was midsummer July that burned brightest. The suitcase barely rested — 28 departures, from Showing Vilnius to a friend 🚂 (January) to New Year not at home 🚂 (December), reaching as far as Cahul, 891 km from home, with the bicycle doing more of the work than usual. 4 new countries opened up to me, 92 first-time cities, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm included. With Tata M beside me through much of it. First stop Allied Testing in January; the last was Дубровенка in Mogilev. Somewhere in it I wrote: “Как же жарко.”