The numbers open the show. Before anything too glamorous can happen, the host jokes about the complaint that the podcast has become too much about them, then cheerfully announces six year-end review episodes anyway. That pretty much tells you the mood. This first one is the nerdy pass: where they slept, what counted as travel, and which categories need a little defending before the totals work. Google Maps does some creepy assisting. Heather says she would never track all of this herself, while the host claims the labor and lets the stories sit beside the spreadsheet. Hotels do not exactly run away with it. The count is 16 hotel nights for him and 15 for Heather, while Airbnb hits 34 nights each once the local summer rental is counted. That Airbnb number is the funny one. Thirty-three nights were not some big roaming stretch; they were in a house in their own town because their actual house was rented out for the summer. Then comes Mexico. After the retreat they ran, they stayed one night with retreat guests in a place they thought was central, before remembering it was parked up a wild hill. Plane nights get tossed in too. He logs two nights on a plane or in an airport, while Heather logs one, with the category kept loose in the usual receipt-sorting style. The retreat nights make the list feel less clinical. His seven come from the Mexico retreat they ran, while Heather reaches 10 after adding another women's entrepreneur retreat. Camp Indy gets four nights. Heather also has five nights at a client's Smokies rental project, turning the ledger into part work trip and part interior-design errand. By the end, they admit 2025 was not a giant travel year, but the itch is still there: more North Carolina, more faraway travel, maybe Southeast Asia, and perhaps a coffee-and-ice-cream count if listeners ask for it.
