I've fully committed to going back to Canada next summer. Going home isn't my idea of a great travel trip after being stuck in Japan for a year and a half, but by then it'll be three years since I will have seen my parents (Facetime isn't enough) and with my mother in the early stages of dementia, it's a must for me. And, if for some miracle the Olympics do happen next summer (a pipe dream the Japanese government is holding on to), I definitely do NOT want to be here when that madness takes over the country. Of course, me being me (i.e. travel addicted), I always make it a point to go somewhere new every time I go back to Canada. So next summer I plan on doing a cruise (!) through the Northwest Passage, starting in Resolute and ending in Greenland. I'm not a fan of cruises, but, like Antarctica (which I'll do for my 50th in a few years), it's virtually impossible (or prohibitively expensive) to visit this region any other way. After that, assuming the world returns to some sense of normalcy by 2022, my priorities will be either Bangladesh/India/Pakistan, North and/or West Africa, parts of the Middle East that I haven't been to yet, and Mexico and/or however much of Central America I can visit in one go. Of course I won't be able to do all of them, but it's nice to have a few options in hand to make the most of the time of year, flights, and other considerations that tend to coalesce when it's time to start making firm decisions.