Google Timeline

This is my Google Timeline map if you include all the dates tracked. The data starts back in May of 2014 and Google thinks I’ve been to 542 places since then. It gives you a list of the most visited places. My list is: 1) home, 2) work, 3) St. Joseph Hospital, 4) sister’s house in Irvine, and 5) carpool partner’s house. Pretty boring and sad. I know it’s due to dialysis but it sucks to have a hospital to be your #3 most visited place, especially when you’ve only been going there since July, 2017.

As expected, most of the markers are in Orange County and the South Bay (Torrance) due to work. Here is a zoomed in map:

I’m guessing most of those are restaurants since that category probably has the most variety of destinations that are visited only once or twice. Other clusters in the main map are: 1) San Francisco Bay Area, 2) Portland (Oregon), 3) Tunisia, 4) Japan, and 5) Taiwan. I made several trips to the Bay Area awhile ago and my sister used to live in Portland; I would visit her about once or twice a year. I also went on a two week trip to Tunisia, and my sister’s family an I visited Japan and Taiwan several years ago, before I started dialysis. There are some obvious errors in the data. One marker is for Piedmont Triad airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. I’m 100% certain I’ve never been to that airport. I think it’s when I gave an extra phone to my sister to use in Canada since my plan covers all of North America, and she may have taken it to NC on a business trip while logged into my Google account.

If I had started tracking earlier, there would be even more clusters of markers near: 1) Chengdu, China, 2) Beijing, China, 3) Hong Kong, 4) Singapore, 5) different part of Taiwan, 6) New York City, 8) Mississauga/Oakville/Toronto, 9) Hawaii, and 10) if you go back 20 years, London/Paris/Rome/Florence for my honeymoon. I made this post because I missed traveling. I used to save my boarding passes on airline flights and one year, I collected 56 of them. I have not gone anywhere since starting dialysis because I only have 2-3 days between sessions, and peritoneal dialysis was everyday. Since COVID-19 hit, there has been very little travel so I didn’t miss much in 2020 but I look forward to a return to normalcy post-tranplant.

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My church cell group brothers said we should plan a celebration trip after my transplant. I casually mentioned South Korea since more of them are Korean-American, but that’s unlikely. Maybe we’ll end up at Las Vegas or something. Hopefully the pandemic will be better controlled. I really want to try the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace. It’s pretty expensive, with prices starting from $79/person; perhaps I can gain back some of the weight I lost over this past year.