Travel
A friend of mine, Richard Bangs, has a piece of advice I've tried to follow: One should make a trip of a lifetime at least once per year. Further, I think one can learn from a scrawled question in the Journals of Dan Eldon: "What's the difference between exploring and being lost? The journey is the destination". For day to day living, I believe in the German phrase Stadtluft macht frei: "city air makes one free", but for holidays I occasionally like to get as far to the middle of nowhere as possible. Here is everywhere I've flown since 2010:
The Traveler's Century Club is for people who have visited at least 100 countries, where they (quite arbitrarily) define countries as places that are politically, ethnologically, or geographically distinct. They define 325 such countries, and I've so far visited 99. Here are articles on the Traveler's Century Club from Atlas Obscura, the New York Times and Travel & Leisure. My friend Mark Coleman describes the effort as "Pokémon Go for people with money".
The above map is nice but doesn't precisely match the TCC list of countries. Here's the breakdown of every country I've visited. Included in that list are the following international trips:
2020: Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Honk Kong, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Nagpur, Delhi, Agra
2019: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Beijing, Barcelona, Bengaluru, Vancouver, St. Kitts & Nevis (97), Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hangzhou, Monte Carlo, Dublin (98), Lyon, Tunis (99)
2018: Beijing, Puerto Princesa, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Beijing, Chengdu, X’ian, Munich, Vancouver, Hangzhou, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Shanghai (yes, 6 different trips to China)
2017 international work destinations: Vancouver, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Hangzhou, Copenhagen (93), Brussels (94), Malta (95), Luxembourg (96), Prague
Azores, July 2017
Qatar (92), March 2017
2016 international work destinations: Toronto, Shanghai, Berlin
Puerto Rico, January 2014
Germany & Austria, December 2013
Puerto Rico, January 2013
Dominican Republic, March 2013
Madeira, June 2012
Belize, March 2012
Jamaica, December 2011
Cancun, March 2011
Syria, November 2010
US & British Virgin Islands, July 2010
Costa Rica, April 2010
Guatemala & Honduras, October 2009
Grenada, March 2009
Tanzania & Kenya, July 2008
Philippines, February 2008
Portugal, April 2007
Jordan & Egypt, December 2006
Iceland, July 2006
Hawaii, February 2006
India & Sri Lanka, October 2005
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and South Korea, December 2004
New Zealand, Rarotonga, Bora Bora and Australia, August 2004
Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, March 2004
Marrakech & the Canary Islands, February 2004
Buenos Aires & Antarctica, December 2003
Ecuador & the Galapagos, July 2003
Croatia, April 2003
Ghana, December 2002
Grand Canyon, Colorado, September 2002
Namibia & South Africa, March 2002
Paris & Toulouse, July 2001
Machu Picchu, Peru, April 2001
Paris, Florence and Venice, May 2000
Uganda, January 2000
Bali, September 1998
Corsica & Nice, May 1998
Costa Rica, December 1997
Cinque Terre, Italy, November 1996
Martinique & the Grenadines, April 1996
London, Paris, Cologne, Prague, Budapest, Interlaken, Vienna, Rome, Florence, Corfu, Athens, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Cairo and Istanbul, April-May, 1993
Spain, France and Italy, June 1985
Please feel free to email me about travel ideas at dan@dankohn.com.