THANK YOU!!!! (+a brief preview of the next big video) (Patreon)

Friends, thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has signed up for Patreon over the past couple days, and indeed to everyone who has been here for longer than that! It's been insane seeing the number of supporters grow, and we're now at over 2,000 patrons! This so far exceeds any expectations I had when I started this, and especially for a channel under 100,000 subscribers, it's just such an overwhelming amount of support...I can't thank you all enough for, to be completely honest, FULLY FUNDING the adventures I'm able to take for the channel!! I really hope that the video output has made you feel like your money has been going to a decent place - I still have a lot of comments on here I need to respond to, but I just had to show my appreciation for everyone first. I'm so glad I don't have to worry about making perfect thumbnails or taking a million sponsors (well, except Manta, but those are just extremely fun to do), and I'm so extremely grateful that my odd, chaotic style of videomaking about extremely niche topics has managed to garner such an amazing, supportive audience.

I have big plans for next year: some huge international trips (including a couple of forays to a new continent for me), the return of a beloved series (or multiple?), and attempting to edit my way through a massive backlog that includes a 24-hour Clipper Card challenge, a trip to Paris, and - possibly what I'm most excited to edit once I'm done with the December suite - the overland journey to a small French collectivity off the coast of Newfoundland that many of the geography foamers in the audience will know the name of! ;) Plus I'll be doing even more fun stuff whose plans I need to lock in with my friends: more least used stations, more trip reports, and some potentially insane challenges...

I realize this feels more like a look-ahead to 2026 when I am still very much working my way through the end of 2025, but please enjoy a sneak preview of what will hopefully be coming out in two weeks' time! This could end up being very different depending on how the rest of the video pans out (my editing process is very vibes-based) and I could end up splitting this one into two parts as well if the pacing makes sense, but the least I can do is give everyone a look at what's coming next! I think it's going to be a good one ;)