Seattle
2013-06 to 2015-04 · 23 months
Twenty-three months before they left. The Space Needle, the urban walks, the floats, the hikes, the camping.
Most days in: Seattle 419 · Lea Hill 13 · Tokyo 7 · Newcastle 7 · Singapore 5
Asia
2015-05 to 2018-01 · 33 months
Japan first, then a year in Din Daeng, then Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Toronto, Tokyo, Taipei, Langkawi, Australia, Bali.
Most days in: Din Daeng 257 · Quan Ba 135 · Quan Hai 72 · Kuala Lumpur 62 · Tokyo 34
Bouncing
2018-02 to 2019-02 · 13 months
San Francisco and Mexico City, back and forth, five times.
Most days in: San Francisco 117 · Cuauhtemoc 82 · Mexico City 48 · Playa del Carmen 46 · Guadalajara 38
Baja
2019-03 to 2019-09 · 7 months
Cabo, then Tijuana in April, then five months in Ensenada. They married on 12 July 2019: her hair done in Tijuana that morning, the certificate in Chula Vista at half past four.
Most days in: Ensenada 108 · Tijuana 36 · Cabo San Lucas 26 · Cuauhtemoc 13 · Guadalajara 10
What she was writing
- Backpacking 2019 - Mexico2019-09-03 · MJ itinerary
Backpacking Mexico
2019-10 to 2019-12 · 3 months
Oaxaca, Palenque, Valladolid, to an itinerary she wrote herself.
Most days in: Oaxaca de Juarez 12 · Palenque 10 · Puebla 7 · Merida 7 · Valladolid 7
What she was writing
- Backpacking 2020 - Central America2019-10-30 · MJ itinerary
Belize, and the year that stopped
2020-01 to 2020-09 · 9 months
Belize and Guatemala in January, Costa Rica and Panama in February, then Colombia, and then nothing. Look at what she was writing: every other chapter has her itineraries in it. This one has playlists.
Most days in: Barranquilla 112 · Medellin 10 · Santa Marta 9 · San Francisco 7 · Panama 7
What the lockdown looks like in the record
Not fewer days. The phone kept recording, twenty-two to twenty-six days every month right through it. What stopped was the moving.
What she was writing
- 80's pop2020-08-27 · MJ playlist
- 90's POP2020-09-18 · MJ playlist
- 2000's pop2020-09-24 · MJ playlist
Croatia
2020-11 to 2021-01 · 3 months
Zagreb, in winter, at the far end of a year spent still.
Most days in: Zagreb - Centar 50 · Paradise 9 · Zagreb 1
What she was writing
- 90's Rock2020-12-23 · MJ playlist
- Motown/ Doo Wop2021-01-07 · MJ playlist
Las Vegas
2021-02 to 2025-08 · 55 months
The last stretch, and the longest: fifty-five months in one city.
Most days in: Las Vegas 1074 · Paradise 69 · Spring Valley 46 · Winchester 28 · San Francisco 11
What she was writing
- Aniversary 2021 Food Options2021-06-10 · MJ plan
- road trip to Reno2022-02-19 · MJ itinerary
- LV suggestions2022-03-23 · MJ list
- road trip with Colima girls2022-03-24 · MJ itinerary
- CMJ trip to LA2022-05-25 · MJ itinerary
- requests for 33012022-06-17 · the condo
- Summer 2024 road trip2023-05-09 · MJ itinerary
- epic trip 20242024-06-28 · MJ itinerary
- Happy Birthday, Kali2024-08-01 · MJ, for a friend
- Upholstery for our chairs2024-11-13 · the condo
- social media accounts for Iconolithic2025-01-06 · her business, early 2025
Days, towns, photographs, distance and stops come from the phone. A day it was off is a day missing here, not a day they stayed in. Her documents are named and dated; what is in them stays in the archive.