You sure did get around! Your slideshows are lovely. I especially like the slides with the dog.
As for Covid, life changed overnight. It sounds like you managed to adjust well. I'm sorry about your Dad. I hope he was not one of the many who had to spend their last days all alone.
I hope it’s as wonderful, vibrant, and weird as the one that came before it.
It will be much better.
We pretty much got three years' worth of travel done in one. We started missing our beagle after about the second day of our overseas trips. Our son watched him though so he felt like part of "his pack" was there.
Yeah, here we had Covid going on and the riots it was craziness but you just learn to make the best of it. Thanks for the condolences for my Dad. Unfortunately, he was alone for his last three or so weeks of his life. We did window visits at the nursing home before he was taken to the ICU. We were only able to do a Zoom call with him once he was there and by then he was on a vent and unconscious.
Oh, I have hope that it will eventually be better. I'm glad this kind of thing only seems to land about once a century.