I can’t decide if this is cool or depressing. Both, I guess. On the one hand, it’s a neat idea, but on the other hand, it makes me realize how few places I’ve been. Maybe I should have been more diverse in my travels back when I was younger and had more free time and fewer encumbrances, instead of going to London every time I had enough money to travel. But then again, if I could take a trip anywhere in the world tomorrow, I’d be on a plane to London again. With a detour to Ireland this time.
(My dad’s version of this map would be a whole lot more interesting. He’s been almost everywhere.)
Create your own visited country map.
So what does your map look like?
My map is pitiful: visited 3 countries (1%). I guess technically I could have had four countries, but I thought checking the UK when I’ve only been to Northern Ireland would be a bit of a cheat.
My visited states map is better: visited 22 states (43%). I really wish I had travelled more. When I’ve had the time, I’ve not had the money (and vice versa). Sad.
Cool site.
Ooh, I didn’t even realize there was a visited states map.
Mine looks a lot better than the countries one, too.
I think you get to count the UK, btw. Northern Ireland is nothing to sneeze at.
And you’re just a whippersnapper—plenty of travel ahead in your future. Mine too, probably…someday.
Are you allergic to Kentucky? It’s a sad grey island on your US map.
I hope there’s plenty of travel ahead in my future. Yours too. We should rent a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. I hear it’s very cheap.
Here are links to my country map and my state map. Looks like I’m allergic to West Virginia and Indiana.
A cottage on the west coast of Ireland? I’m there.
Poor Kentucky. It does look a little isolated there. It’s nothing personal, though.
On the other hand, there’s nothing at all wrong with avoiding Indiana.
My world map is not bad, I guess–17 percent–but then again, there are whole continents I had to skip. And what’s with me having never visited Mexico? Silly.
But I’m with you: If I could go anywhere right now, it would be the U.K. Especially right before Christmas when the lights are up in Oxford Street and the Christmas trees are for sale on the corners. Ahhhhh.
My U.S. map is just ridiculous. Too much road-tripping!
Jamie, Idaho and Vermont called. They want to know why you hate them.
Hee.
I think I would like them very much, actually, but they are apparently not on the highways I tend to travel. Silly of them.
“Nothing wrong with avoiding Indiana.” You wouldn’t be trying to bait me into commenting, would you?
My U.S. map is fairly impressive (to me, at least, considering I only really started traveling in the last 3 or 4 years, notwithstanding a couplr road trips in college).
So stay out of Indiana if you like, but I don’t mind the place.
Louisville, especially in the spring, is great, and everybody needs to go to the Kentucky Derby at least once (though I haven’t yet, and won’t next year, due to a plan I have in the works for that weekend, which you already know about), if for no other reason than the ridiculous hats.
Baiting you into commenting? Ya think?
So where’s your map, Jason?
My state map stands at 45%, and my country map has exactly one country on it. But I don’t have any desire to visit, say, the Dakotas.
I don’t have a burning desire to visit all 50 states, and I’m never going to have the resources to travel abroad to the extent that I’d like, so I’ll tick a few more off my list here and there (California and Oregon, when I freak out, leave work, hop a plane to San Diego, and drive the PCH up the coast, to give but one example of something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
But Indiana wants me.