This was the year I lived widest, further than any before it, always circling back to Minsk, peaking somewhere in year-closing December. The suitcase barely rested — 16 departures, from Rostock - another friend another visit ✈️ (March) to New World - new life ✈️ (November), 27 times the ground fell away from a window, reaching as far as Santiago, 13,510 km from home. 14 new countries entered the album, 92 first-time cities, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro included. With 塔妮雅 beside me through much of it. First stop 汉庭酒店 （九宫店）/ Hanting Jiudian in Beijing in January; the last was Os. Górczewska 200 in Warsaw. Somewhere in it I wrote: “viva la viva”