I began traveling while still in the womb, as my mother was several months pregnant with me when the parentals took a trip to Niagara Falls.
Some of my earliest memories involve the road trip from Connecticut to Iowa that I took with my family in a big station wagon when I was 3.
Another fond memory from my youth is the National Geographic map of the world that I had hanging on the faux-wood panel wall in my bedroom.
That map lasted for years, and every time I traveled somewhere new, I would color in that place on the map.
The ultimate goal was to have the entire map colored in, because I want to travel everywhere in the world.
Cut to March 2006.
I discovered this wonderful travel website called World66
Now I can post my colored-in maps online so that everyone I know can know where I've been.
It's mostly for me, though, so that I can reminisce about my old map and so that I can track my progress getting the rest of the world colored in.
Starting small, here's where I've been in the US:
I'm only missing 7 states, and hopefully I'll get those tackled soon, or at least before I move out of the country.
Here's where I've been in Canada:
I've only been to 4 of the 13 Provinces, which is a little disappointing considering that I grew up in Connecticut within a reasonable driving distance to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. I've been hoping for a chance to get up to Newfoundland and Labrador. Who's up for a road trip from Boston this summer? It's only like a 5 hour drive from Boston to New Brunswick, and we can do fun things like: being cold in the summertime and going to Magnet Hill where the laws of physics go wacky and your car magically rolls uphill all by itself! Fun! It's just like Spook Hill in Lake Wales, Florida, only you get to be cold in August!
Here's my map of the world:
This map is pretty sparse, but 8 countries isn't bad. I've been on 4 of the 7 continents, so that's more than half!
