Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

Here is a map of places I’ve been.
I got it at world66, which will allow you to create your own visited country map. My total is only 7%, although it certainly felt like more at times. Just my return trip from Kuwait last year took 72 hours with stops in London, Chicago, and Dallas.

I also built my US map:

I’m not really interested in going to either Alaska or Hawaii unless something happens to force or encourage a trip. I’ve somehow missed the Dakotas. I really want to go there and see the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. I think it would really be something to go to western Dakota and travel by horse following Custer’s trail to Little Bighorn. I really have a desire as a student of Old West History to make that trek. I doubt it is feasible these days, and the Custer site really doesn’t interest me except as the goal of the trail.

If you have wanderlust, may I recommend the United States. Get a decent US History book and plan an adventure. I can tell you that there are interesting things to see in Europe, but all they really offer is someone else’s history. I’m sure the same can be said of Asia or Africa. See what we have first.

Next year, the wife and I may take a road trip during spring break. While college kids visit here, I think we might drive up the Rio Grande to El Paso, then across New Mexico and Arizona on the southern track, and spend a couple of days in Las Vegas. We’ll take the northern route back and see the Grand Canyon and Painted Desert, high plains of New Mexico and Texas, then back home through Comanche country. Or maybe that trip way up north to the Black Hills–border-to-border?