[ 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 ]
Upcoming Travel Things in grey are unconfirmed
Sep 2–5	Toronto	Kat's birthday
Oct 23–26	Brighton, UK	SOSP
Nov 7–11	Alexandria, VA	CCS / WPES
Nov 19–27	Toronto; Pennsylvania	Thanksgiving
Mar 29, 2006	Turkey	Solar Eclipse
2005
Aug 11–15	Toronto	Trip to get a visa and more wedding planning. (Stayed in Toronto a day longer than expected due to car trouble.)
Aug 6	Champaign, IL	I moved to Urbana-Champaign to start my new job
Aug 2–6	Baltimore	USENIX Security
Jul 14–20	Toronto	Graduation party and wedding planning.
Jul 10–14	Urbana-Champaign	Apartment hunting
Jun 29–July 1	Leuven	Visiting KU Leuven
Jun 2–Jul 4	Europe	Post-graduation vacation
May 29–Jun 1	Dubrovnik, Croatia	PET 2005
May 1–4	Redmond, WA	Interview at MSR
Apr 19–22	Urbana-Champaign	Interview at UIUC
Apr 1–4	Toronto
May 31–Apr 1	Amherst, MA	Interview at UMass Amherst.
March 4–7	Paris	Celebrating Lenore and me getting engaged.
Feb 18–21	Lake Tahoe	Lila's birthday
Feb 3–4	San Diego	NDSS 2005
Jan 13–16	Seattle	Visiting MSR.
Jan 2–9	Toronto
2004
Dec 31–Jan 2	Glen Rock, NJ	New Year's Party
Nov 23–28	Portland, Victoria	A road trip up the coast to see my mother and a short visit to Portland on the way.
Oct 29–Nov 1	Toronto	Visit for my sister's birthday
Oct 26–28	Washington, D.C.	CCS 2004 / WPES 2004
Sep 17–19	Near Yosemite	Stargaze XIV
Aug 29–Sep 5	Black Rock, NV	Burning Man
Aug 10–15	San Diego	USENIX Security '04
Jul 30–Aug 1	Bay Area	Weekend visit
Jul 17–18	Vancouver	Lisa & Andrew's Commitment Ceremony
Jun 30–Jul 5	Denmark	My sister's wedding
Jun 11–13	Bay area	Weekend visit
Jun 1–Aug 22	Seattle	Internship at MSR
May 24–31	Toronto	PET 2004
Apr 28–May 3	Amsterdam	Queensday
Mar 19–28	Toronto	Spring break
Feb 15–17	Victoria	A visit to celebrate my mother's (belated) birthday
2003
Dec 28–Jan 14	Thailand	Pictures
Dec 24–27	Victoria, Seattle	We flew into Seattle and then drove to Victoria to spend Christmas at my mother's. Then I spent a couple of days back in Seattle before going on to Thailand.
Nov 21–23	Harbin Hot Springs	Beatrice organized a small getaway to one of her favourite spots.
Nov 9–16	Japan	I went to Miyazaki to speak at IWFIPT and then spent the weekend in Osaka and Kyoto.
Nov 4–8	Toronto	Ian and Kat's wedding.
Sep 26–27	Mercey Hot Springs	Gratitude Campout Pictures
Aug 30–Sep 1	Rockland, MD	Eric and Natalie's wedding. This is where I discover that doing an 18+ hour road trip by yourself in one weekend may not be the best idea in the world. Pictures from the wedding and the National Zoo
Aug 28–Sep 9	Toronto	Visiting, Toronto Film Festival.
Jul 3–6	Anaheim	AnimeExpo 2003. This year, the expo had lackluster programming, probably due to its higher popularity. Or maybe I'm just more familiar with anime and so fewer shows are new to me. However, my friends came prepared with TVs, DVD players, game consoles, and of course, anime on CD and DVD, so we had a really nice private expo inside the hotel rooms. Oh, and next year we are definitely flying down instead of driving. Pictures
Jun 11–25	Toronto	Visiting friends and family. More of the former, actually, because I was part of the Great Borisov Migration: while I was in Toronto, my sister went from Toronto to Moscow, and my father — from Moscow to England. But it was great to see friends, some of whom I hadn't seen in quite a long time, and hang out in my favourite Canadian city. Pictures
Jun 1–4	Victoria	My mother had just moved to Victoria, and I came up for my first-time visit. Victoria turned out to be quite beautiful, and I look forward to spending Christmas there instead of Ottawa.
Apr 25–May 5	Amsterdam	My annual Queensday pilgrimage. This year, we had a good-sized group successfully invade Paul's place. Also, Lenore was finally able to make it to this most-orange of holidays. Pictures
2002 flights
Dec 31–Jan 3	Glen Rock, NJ New York, NY	New Year's party at Sarah's. This is the second time Kevin and I attempted such a thing; this time we had the bonus of having with us Andrea and gingerbread house. Reaffirming my dislike of driving, our trip involved a speeding ticket, a snowstorm, and a minor accident. Not to mention the excitement of losing the keys to the rental the day after. But the party was nice. And I got to experience my third mini-visit to New York — one of these days I will have to make a real visit.
Dec 18–Jan 7	Toronto, Ottawa	Christmas break.
Nov 20–Dec 13	Australia	This was a trip that was both too long and too short. We started off with going to Cairns to dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Then we embarked on a marathon car-avan trip from Sydney through Canberra, Melbourne, over the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide, and on to Ceduna, to see the total solar eclipse. Unfortunately, due to clouds, we were only able to see a short bit of totality. Then it was back to Adelaide, to relax, tour some wineries, and fly back to Sydney to explore for a few more days. Pictures
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I stopped updating this page for a while and haven't had time to trace back through all the missing events yet.
2001 flights
Dec 29–31	Los Angeles	Dana's graduation party
Dec 20–28	Tokyo	Christmas vacation
Oct 28–Nov 4	Toronto
Oct 20–24	Lake Louise	SOSP 2001
Sep 20–24	Philadelphia, Williamsport	Lenore's highschool reunion
Aug 25–29	Toronto
Jul 23–30	Odessa, Kiev	Visiting relatives in the Ukraine
Jul 16–31	Rome	MOBICOM
Jul 6–8	Los Angeles	Anime Expo
Jun 10–28	London, Capetown, Lusaka	A trip to see my second total solar eclipse in Zambia. We spent a few days in Capetown and then drove from Johannesburg to the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia for the Solipse gathering. Also had a days stopover in London in both directions.
Jun 1–4	Ensenada & San Felipe, Mexico	Lenore and I took a road trip to check out a new country
May 20–30	Toronto, Ottawa
Apr 25–May 2	Amsterdam	Queensday
Mar 28–Apr 1	Montreal	Ian's birthday
Feb 23–24	Seattle	802.11 task group i meeting
Feb 7–9	San Diego	NDSS
Jan 10–12	Lake Tahoe, CA	The penultimate Ninja retreat.
2000 flights
Dec 18–Jan 7	Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal	Christmas vactation
Nov 24–26	Halifax	Amber and Bryce's wedding.
Oct 22–25	San Diego	OSDI 2000
Sep 9–11	New York Williamsport, PA	Lenore wanted me to come to her 10 year high school reunion. We flew through JFK, so I took this opportunity to check out New York, if briefly.
Aug 15–17	Denver	9th USENIX Security Symposium
Jul 27–30	Las Vegas	DefCon 8.0. To tell you the truth, I went just to have fun in Vega$ with a bunch of my friends. Which I did.
Jun 31–Jul 2	Anaheim, CA	A trip to the Anime Expo 2000. A very surreal trip, on many counts. The expo was good, although it suffered from Disney's interference.
Jun 19–21	Lake Tahoe, CA	The Endeavour retreat, which my research group was part of.
May 18–31	Toronto	I went to Shar and Steve's wedding (I was actually in the wedding party!). I also spent a while vacationing in Canada and visiting my friends and relatives.
Apr 27–May 1	Amsterdam	I went to Amsterdam for Queensday once again this year. Once again, I had a most wonderful time.
Feb 2–4	San Diego	NDSS 2000
1999 flights
Dec 21–Jan 6	Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal	My christmas vacation. Lenore and I visited with my friends and family around Canada.
Nov 12–14	Los Angeles	A random road trip to Los Angeles with Lenore. Answering the call of the desire to be spontaneous, we got into her car at 3:30 am and just headed south.
Sep 16-18	Ottawa, Toronto	My sister was visiting Ottawa from Russia, and I flew down to see her. I stopped off in Toronto on my way back long enough to attend a party.
Aug 27–29	Waterloo	F'jörd and Christine's wedding.
Aug 25–26	Washington, D.C.	The 8th USENIX Secufrity Symposium.
Aug 15–19	Santa Barbara	CRYPTO '99.
Aug 3–13	Berlin, Budapest	I took a 10 day trip to Europe to attend the Chaos Communication Camp in Berlin, and then the Solipse festival in Hungary for the Solar Eclipse. This was an amazing trip.
Jul 31–Aug 1	Willits, CA	A Friends & Family campout.
Jul 15–20	Ottawa, Toronto	I went to Ottawa for Chris and Darcy's wedding, and then dropped by Toronto and Waterloo to visit some more.
Jul 9–12	Las Vegas	I organized a road trip to Las Vegas, which coincided with DefCon 7.
Jun 30–Jul 2	Lake Tahoe, CA	My research group went on a retreat, which was surprisingly fun and productive.
May 24–Jun 14	Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal	I performed my habitual tour of Canadian cities at the end of the school year
Apr 30–May 2	Amsterdam, Paris	I used the winnings from the above trip to finance another trip to the Netherlands on Queen's day. Then I was convinced to take a day trip to Paris. :) This was an amazing weekend, and someday I will tell the story.
Apr 7–12	Eindhoven	The World Finals of the ACM Programming Contest. Our team came in 7th.
Mar 19–28	Toronto, Ottawa	My spring break vacation. This trip was scheduled before the last one. The combination of the two resulted in my spending (marginally) more than half of March in Canada.
Mar 2–7	Ottawa, Toronto	I found out, on short notice, that I had to write my citizenship test in Ottawa on March 3rd. To obtain a cheap air fare, I had to stay in Canada over a Friday, so I stayed for the weekend and visited with friends around Toronto.
Feb 13–15	Toronto	A last-minute visit prompted by a cheap air fare.
1998
Dec 22–23	Cambridge, MA	I took Justyna up on her offer to come with her to pick up her sister from MIT.
Dec 14–Jan 13	Toronto, Ottawa	This was my christmas vacation. With the exception of the first couple of days, you'll be proud to know that I got absolutely no work done, and had a really great trip overall.
Nov 14–15	Chico, CA	A short trip to compete in the Pacific Northwest regionals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. Our team won!
Sep 25–28	Toronto, Ottawa	I took advantage of an Air Canada sale to visit friends and family in Canada. I had a pretty crazy schedule.
Aug 8–12	Ottawa to Berkeley	When I moved from Ottawa to Berkeley, I drove my car down, together with a friend of mine. We kept a log of our journey, which eventually turned into a story

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Nikita Borisov