Country #50, Continent #5

This year, I visited South America (Bogota, Colombia) in July and Australia (Melbourne) in August. Now, I have to visit Africa and Antarctica to claim that I have been to all the continents.

Cute views of Melbourne

This year also brought the Los Angeles - Shenzhen - Los Angeles (2025), Kingston, ON - Melbourne - Toronto, ON, and Bogota - San Andres - Minneapolis trips that exceeded weeks in length and crossed continents. This year was also the first time long flights since the pandemic era. My last intercontinental long flight was in 2020 February to Qatar, Singapore, and Indonesia. In someway, this year made me feel like truly out of the pandemic era.

Melbourne was nice with its bathing boxes in Brighton beach and kangaroo meat. But hitting the magic number 50 in visited countries made it feel like an achievement on its own. Now, waiting for the country #51. This was also the year where I visited most continents in a single year: North America, South America, Asia, and Australia.