
New Year’s resolutions can feel a little grim. This year, I’ll reduce my screen time. In 2025, I’ll walk 10,000 steps every day. Those are mine, and I’m already depressed thinking about them. So I’ve decided to add one more to the list: a travel resolution. I often think about an incident in 1994, when an earthquake knocked out power in the city of Los Angeles. Curious residents called up Griffith Observatory, asking about the silver cloud in the sky. It was the Milky Way. Hearing that anecdote made me…