Where I’ve Been
Life, Links November 7th, 2005 |USA, Canada, England, Germany (twice), Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia (which doesn’t exist anymore, so I had to choose Bosnia/Herzegovina), Italy, and Greece.
Alaska, Arkansas, California, Washington DC, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississipi, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia.
(Some of these are “visited” in the sense of “drove through or rode through in a train”, others were when I was very young and can’t really remember. Still…in once sense or another, I’ve physically been within the borders of the state.)
Create your own visited states map or visited countries map.
Kind of sad that this is all I’ve been to, and yet that’s enough for many people to consider me “well traveled”. There’s still so much of this planet that I need to get to…I’ve barely gotten started!
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November 8th, 2005 at 2:13 am
Ummm, you forgot to mention Canada, though you clearly have it marked on the map
November 8th, 2005 at 6:01 am
It’s a fun map. It’s strange how people confuse the whole The Netherlands, Belgium and Brussels part on the site.
I visited 18 countries, or 8% of the world… I’m 24 and that sounds almost like a lot, but my map is almost completely white. I really get the feeling I haven’t been anywhere
November 8th, 2005 at 12:15 pm
You can add Iowa and Illinois, for Scott’s wedding. Grandma and Grandpa picked us up at O’Hare in Chicago. We rode in their camper to Fort Dodge, Iowa. You and Kevin exclaimed frequently at how OLD the houses were. Living in a city founded in 1917 (and greatly rebuilt after the 1964 earthquake) put a unique slant on your comparisons. After the wedding we all continued in their motor home to Florida. You were nine.
November 8th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Nifty — thanks, mom!
November 8th, 2005 at 3:54 pm
Several years ago a friend of mine went on a 12-month tour of the 48 contiguous states. He e-mailed weekly updates about what he had done, seen, eaten, experienced, etc. It was always an exciting read and made me wish I had the time and money to do it.
But towards the end of his trip, I started to realize he had missed several things I wouldn’t have. And there were other things he exposed me to that I wouldn’t have known about. A little research for my own vacations always turns up things he never did, either.
In the end, I don’t get excited about these maps anymore. Really, we haven’t “seen” all these countries, we’ve just barely scratched the surface. I find that a little disappointing—no matter how much I see, I’ve still only barely touched on it.