This post, and the work it describes, was done with Cursor. After rebuilding the site around lists of books, music, movies, and games, I wanted the same treatment for places I have been.

The new Travels page sits in the header next to the other media lists. Trips live in _data/travels.yml, with the same card layout, year rail, search, ratings, and month gaps you already get on books or movies. Each entry has a title, dates, a star rating when I remember one, and the places I visited, with Wikipedia links where they exist.

On top of that I added a map. Leaflet loads above the list, with a pin for every place that has coordinates in _data/travel_coords.yml. Dublin is marked as home. Older visits fade a little on the map so recent trips stand out. When you search or filter by rating, the list and the pins stay in sync.

The quiet Stats page now counts trips too, alongside the other yearly totals.

It is the same Jekyll pattern as the rest of the rebuild: YAML, Liquid, a bit of JavaScript, no new stack. I had years of trips scattered in photo folders and memory; now they have a proper home on the site.

— Made withCursor