I'm getting a little ahead of myself, since I haven't yet actually even left for Japan, let alone set foot, but I wanted to give my kids a chance to today to start thinking about what traveling they've done. Besides, these personalized maps are fun, even if once again in my case it does more to point out how little traveling I've done, rather than shore up my world traveler credentials. Still, at least there's a little more red on the map than last time.



create your own visited countries map

Kids, you can create your own Visited Countries map by clicking on the link above, and you make a Visited States map by clicking here. Below is my Visited States map; I only counted states of which I have actual memories, if I only drove through them (W. Virginia), they didn't make the cut.



create your own visited states map

And this seems like a good time to tune-up the ol' blog -- you can still find the prior posts on the sidebar, by clicking on the link to whichever trip you want to read about -- but for now this seems a much improved design.

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