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Tuesday Status Update and Travel

Fiḍál (Grace), 16 Sharaf (Honor) 175 B.E. - Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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Where in the world would you like to visit the most? Assume you are not worried about money in any way. While you're traveling, give me a status update on January so far. Smooth sailing, or turbulence?/c}

Status Update

It's been an exciting and stressful January, which isn't unusual. January, and the beginning of the Gregorian year, is always either exciting or stressful, but normally not both simultaneously. I think the problem this year was the move from the two-bedroom to the one-bedroom apartment. Encountering mice in the "new to me" apartment didn't help the stress. In December we caught 9 mice in the sticky glue traps, so far this month we've caught 9 more. I'm sure there are more because I hear weird and unidentifiable noises at night.

Travel Destinations

The only places I want to visit are the Baha'i Temples   across the world and the Baha'i Holy Places   on and near Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. The Mashriqu’l-Adhkars, Arabic phrase meaning “The Dawning Place of the Mention of God"1. The Temples are Wilmette (United States) Santiago (Chili) Panama City (Panama), Kampala (Uganda), Langenhain (Germany), Sydney (Australia), Apia (Western Samoa), and New Delhi (India).

Footnotes
1  http://bahaiblog.net/2018/07/bahai-temples-a-brief-introduction/