Hodgepodge 226/365 - My World

Here are the countries I've visited (not including a few—Aden [now Yemen], Fiji, Portugal, for example—where I physically was but I totally don't remember, because I was, like, two, or maybe three):

I've got some filling in to do!

Top of the list at the moment: Spain and Portugal (yeah, I'd like to be able to claim Portugal); Vietnam (another place I've been, but only in the airport, during the war—a little freaky, yeah; it'd be nice to visit what I understand is a beautiful and friendly country under less trying, and more temporally capacious, circumstances); Slovenia (I understand the hiking there is out of this world); Brazil (the Pantanal); Madagascar and Mozambique.

For starters.

And I'm running out of time, so I'd best start planning a trip or two. Vietnam with the Sierra Club is currently on my radar, for next March.

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6/17 addendum: David and I just sat down with blank index cards—the task: to list the ten places we'd like to go (before we die). I expanded mine to fifteen, maybe sixteen. Here's the collated list of places we'd both like to go:

Tasmania/Australia (esp. Western Australia for me)
Slovenia/Dolomites/ Prague
South Africa/Madagascar (and maybe Mozambique)
Chile/Patagonia
the Pantanal (Brazil)
Ecuador/Galápagos
Iceland
Indonesia

I would also like to go to the Iberian Peninsula, Quebec/Montreal/Newfoundland, Costa Rica (again), and Tahiti. And as I mentioned above, Vietnam.

We've got our work cut out for us. Let the good times roll!

P.S. 6/14/25—Since posting this eight years ago, we've managed to tick off Madagascar and the Galápagos; later this year we'll go to Western Australia (and Malaysia, but that's not Indonesia); and next year we have a tour to the Panatanal booked (for which we actually stepped out of a tour to Tasmania, but WA will make do on that front). We've also been to a corner of Chile, en route to Antarctica (hey wait! why wasn't Antarctica on that list?). Iceland looms large still. And, yeah, Slovenia. We've also been to Portugal, Costa Rica (again), and I did make it to Vietnam.