This is my reflection on the year 2024, which has just passed, highlighting personal achievements, memorable experiences, and major life events. I am also including my expectations for 2025. I hope to maintain this annual habit and look forward to revisiting these words I write to myself.

Before the summer of 2025 ended, I decided to journey to the Arctic Circle via the Dempster Highway—the only year-round public highway that crosses the Arctic Circle and leads to the very edge of the continent. A school friend and I flew to Whitehorse, Canada, and began our road trip in a Nissan Rogue. This adventure also marked my very first camping experience. Choosing Arctic camping as a first outing was certainly ambitious, especially with all our equipment packed into a single luggage bag.