Catching up

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But in the meantime, I had sudden unexpected time off. So I went to Barcelona!

Where you going? Barcelona

Chuckro's been after me to go on a solo trip for the better part of a year now - I do occasionally need time away from my boys, and I like to tourist much harder than they do. He's perfectly happy to send me to go quench some wanderlust if it means I come home with stories and food, and more importantly, DON'T make him go on three back to back walking tours in one day.

Why Barcelona? Well, I had about a week and a half to plan, and was planning to stay for, like, 5 days. And United flight credits that needed to be used up. So I went down the list of where United had direct flights from Newark that I a) hadn't been to (sorry, Paris), b) was comfy going to solo (sorry, Cancun at the moment), and c) didn't suck in November (sorry, Dublin). Lisbon has more day trips and I thought I'd want at least a week, while Barcelona seemed more containable. Barcelona!

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