I enjoy traveling, and I love geography, so I was very excited when a friend of mine recently mentioned this website that allows people to track their travels, county by county, across the country. I spent a couple hours entering my data (thanks to some helpful information from my dad regarding trip routes from my childhood) and now I have this wonderful map.
I categorized the counties thusly:
In cyan (light blue) are places where I've traveled in an automobile (or other motorized land vehicle). These include:
- Seattle/Olympic National Park
- Silicon Valley
- Grand Canyon
- El Paso/Juarez
- Dallas
- Galveston
- New Orleans/Baton Rouge
- Nashville
- Des Moines
- Minneapolis
- Green Bay
- Sault Ste. Marie
- Cedar Point/Sandusky
- Washington DC
- Wilmington, NC
- Hilton Head, SC/Savannah, GA
- Hawaii & Kauai islands
- Most of Illinois, Indiana, and central Appalachia
- Everything along the way to these places
In magenta (light purple) are places where I've been bicycling (and probably travelled by auto also). These include:
- near Portland
- San Francisco & Marin County
- San Jose/Cupertino
- Dallas
- Des Moines
- Madison
- Green Bay
- Pittsburgh
- Wilmington, NC
- High points of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Hawaii
- Most of Illinois & some of Indiana
In dark blue are places where I've been, but only in the airport (i.e. I had a layover there). These include:
- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Salt Lake City
- Kansas City
- Atlanta
- Miami
- Honolulu
It's exciting to remember all the great places I've been, and just as exciting to think about all the places I have yet to explore. I've still never set foot in 19 states:
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- New York
- New Jersey
- Delaware
- Alabama
- Nebraska
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
- Colorado
- Wyoming
- Montana
- Idaho
- Nevada
- Alaska
I've got places to go. Hopefully I will keep the map updated along the way.
4 comments:
great map and and travel synopsis - keep it up -- how can you include Nicaragua ... and possible other countries? i'm sure you'll find a way. stay warm and upright!! hugs, auntie
oooooooo THE PLACES YOU HAVE BEEN!!!! and THE PLACES STILL TO GO!!!!!!!!! You have to INCLUDE OTHER COUNTRIES, as you have a few of those,too!!!!!! Happy traveling, and like auntie says, stay upright , while traveling the icy/snow covered streets!!! hugs, Nan
Seeing this map makes it WAY cooler than I initially thought it was when Ben was talking about it.
I M P R E S S I V E ! ! !
I wonder if YOU even realized you'd been that many places. It must have seemed like a lot more after you began mapping it all out, huh?
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