Trip Analysis

I finally got around to charting my activities during the trip. Here it is the trip route and the 7 day rolling sum of the number of steps taken.

The bad days, with the condition level 4 or less, are overlaid on the activity chart as the red vertical lines:

Here are some observations:

1. There is no red line in late March and April. This is when I was on the move.  
2. Thick lines appear in early May when we stopped in Virginia. 
3. The lines disappear again till we settled in NYC in June.
4. Then the lines get denser as we approach July. This is the post-trip struggle in NYC.
5. Lines disappear in August as we got back on the road. 
6. Thick lines in the middle of September when we stopped for  a week in Mesquite.
7. Once we got back home, the lines became regular as before.
8. Similar pattern appears while we traveled to Paris in Oct and Nov. It was less conclusive though, because it was only for a month.
9. Ignore thick lines in Dec and Jan. This is when I was having flu.

These observations agrees with what I observed before:

• The novelty of taveling elevates the crash threshold
• When the novelty fades, so does the elevation effect
• When the elevation effect dissipates, post-trip struggle sets in.
• The post-trip struggle ends quickly when traveling resumes.