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I'm also 52... so far this is my list.
CANADA: BC, AB, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB
US: VT, NH, ME, MA, RI, CT, NY, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, TX, UT, CA, IL, IN, MI
EUROPE: Scotland, England, France, Switzerland, Netherland, Spain incl Majorca.
AFRICA: Egypt
also, Australia, Tahiti, Mexico, Martinique, Bermuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
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There was a recent topic in the World forum with the title "How Well Traveled Are You?” but that topic seemed to briefly disappear from the forum page? This topic is similar enough to that so I’ll have this post up here instead for now:
These are the countries I visited so far, 8 countries total:
France, UK/England, Romania, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Mexico, USA, Canada.
The specific places I visited so far in each of those countries:
Costa Rica: San Jose, Jaco, Quepos, Arenal National Park, Braulio Carrilo National Park.
Mexico: Cancun, Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Coba, Yucatan Peninsula.
USA: Seattle, Portland, Pacific Northwest, North Cascades National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Big Sur, Coastal California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, New York City, Vermont, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston.
Canada: Montreal, Quebec, British Columbia, Vancouver, Whistler, Garibaldi Provincial Park. Cypress Provincial Park, Lions Bay.
I am well traveled enough for being 21 years old, and compared to a significant amount of Americans/some other nationalities. I have a lot more life and years of my life to travel later on and do want to travel more.
I know very well exactly what I want to get from traveling, everything to look for, and all the places I want to go in.
In the next 5 years these are the next 4 international trips I plan to go on to add to my travels:
1. A lot more of France, at least some of these places: Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Cannes, Grenoble, Chamonix, French Alps, Pyrenees, Vanoise National Park, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Nantes, Montpellier, Rhone-Alpes, Provence Cote d’Azur, Ile-de-France Paris again, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Languedoc-Roussillion, Aquitaine, Alsace, Corsica, Reunion, New Caledonia, French Polynesia.
2. France again, Netherlands, Belgium, UK again in the same international trip.
3. Romania, Bulgaria again, also Turkey, Georgia in the same trip.
4. Thailand, or China.
Maybe up to 14 countries in the next 5 years, age 26. Also, maybe up to 18 countries: age 30, 35 countries:age 40, and 50 countries: age 50.
Some people can be very knowledgeable, wise, and worldly without having to be more well traveled than someone else, and also having a lot of accurate, specific, well-informed opinions about a lot of various important World topics. That is true even for some places not traveled to yet for plenty of reasons. Those opinions can be based from reading about those places, seeing pictures of those places, other people’s views that they noticed, and if someone has good perception and intuition for how they observe.
places I travel to in the past are USA : New York , Orlando & Miami , Florida.
Europe : Denmark , Norway , Sweden , Germany , Belgium , Netherlands , France , Luxembourg , UK.
I took a job with an airline straight out of college. I thought it would be fun to work there a year or two. 23.5 years later I was able to take early retirement. The flight perks have let me see the world for which I feel very fortunate. Travel gives one a great perspective on life! It has made me thankful to live in the US. It reminds me every day not to take things for granted. It is truely a BIG and amazing world out there!
So here goes, in the US: Vt, NY, Ma, Pa, Md, DC, Oh, Tn, Va, WVa, SC, Ga, Fl, Al, La, Tx, Ks, Nv, Az, Co, Ca, Or, Wa, Ut, Mn, Il, Ha, USVI. 72+ cities and towns.
Favorite US cities: San Franciso, Boston, Seattle.
Countries: Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, Bermuda, England, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovinia, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Vatican City, Greece, Turkey, Thailand, & Australia.
Highlights: Hearing Arenal Volcano erupt in Costa Rica. Merci Festival in Barcelona. Sunset sitting on a cliff in Sagres, Portugal. All the people I have met.
USA: PA, MD, NY, NJ, CT, RI, MA, FL, CO, WY, CA, VT, DC, DE, KS, WI (and I am not mentioning states that I just changed planes in transit).
Favorite US city to visit is probably San Francisco (where I also lived and worked for a short period of time).
Countries: USA, Canada, England, Wales, France, Israel (including the Sinai Desert which is part of Egypt but at that time was under Israeli control), Jordan, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland/Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Vatican City, Germany, Luxembourg, Monaco, Ecuador, China, Botswana, South Africa, Australia.
Best islands that I visited were the Galapagos Islands which are part of Ecuador and it was also great visiting Tasmania in Australia.
I've been lucky enough to travel to over 30 countries in my 27 years of life - or rather, in my ten or so years of adulthood, as we didn't really travel abroad when I was a child. I've been to the US, Japan, Malaysia, Brunei, Egypt, and the majority of countries in Europe. Many of them, however, I have only visited for a short time.
It's extremely easy to sound well-travelled if you're from Europe, for the obvious reason that it's a region comprised of lots of small countries. A Luxembourger could feasibly go for breakfast in Germany, lunch in Belgium and dinner in France, and still be tucked up under their tax-efficient duvet before midnight. People from the US are often unfairly treated as poorly travelled by Europeans whose travelling is only the outcome of the large number of borders that happen to be drawn across their region of the world.
I also strongly agree with the other poster who said that being widely travelled doesn't necessarily equate to a good understanding of the world. Some people travel widely without ever making outside of the tourist/expat bubble, or indeed outside of their own egos, while others learn a great deal about the world from reading, or talking to foreigners visiting or living in their own country. I certainly fee that there I countries I've visited that I know little about.
I have travelled to Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, the UK, and Costa Rica.
I am currently studying abroad in Brazil!
I plan on travelling to more countries in Latin America, as soon as I conquer Spanish after Portuguese! I'm also dying to visit Africa, especially Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria (although I'd wait until it was safer), Cape Verde, ad Morocco.
US states: every state (and PR) except NC, NE, NM, ME, VT, NH.
Favorite US cities: New Orleans, San Francisco, Savannah
Countries: Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas, Virgin Islands, U.K., Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, Monaco, Italy, Spain, Vatican City, San Marino, Spain, and Portugal.
Favorite World Cities: London, Venice, Seville, Paris
Best Food: New Orleans
Best Islands: Maui, Vancouver Island
Highlights: Having all the church bells ring as the vaporetto left Venice as the sun was setting, the last time I was there. The museums, and all of the wonderful works of art.
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