Where I’ve Been

Travel is not about how many countries you’ve been to or how many stamps you have in your passport. But I will admit that I find a little bit of list ticking to be entertaining.

By request, here is a list of countries I’ve been to roughly in order, with year(s) visited:

1. USA – lived there for the first 31 years of my life, 1980-2011, 2012, 2015, 2018
2. Canada – 1993, 2001, 2011
3. England – 1994, 2010, 2015
4. France – 1994, 1995, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
5. Monaco – 1994
6. Switzerland – 1994, 1996, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019
7. Italy – 1995, 1996, 1999, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019
8. Vatican – 1995, 1999, 2013
9. Spain – 1995, 2000, 2011, 2012, 2014/2015, 2017, 2019, 2020
10. Germany – 1996, 2010, then moved there 2011-present
11. Austria – 1996, 2011, 2018, 2023
12. Portugal – 2000, 2012, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
13. Gibraltar * – 2000
14. Morocco – 2000, 2014
15. Mexico – 2003
16. Greece – 2008
17. Chile – 2009, 2012
18. Antarctica * – 2009
19. Argentina – 2009
20. Malta – 2009
21. Croatia – 2009, 2017, 2018
22. Hong Kong * – 2010, 2018
23. Macau * – 2010, 2018
24. Malaysia – 2010, 2011, 2014
25. Singapore – 2010, 2011, 2014
26. Australia – 2010, 2011
27. Ecuador – 2010
28. Czech Republic – 2010, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023
29. Liechtenstein – 2011
30. Indonesia – 2011
31. Brunei – 2011
32. Cambodia – 2011, 2014
33. Laos – 2011
34. Vietnam – 2011
35. New Zealand – 2011/2012
36. French Polynesia * – 2012
37. Turkey – 2012
38. Belgium – 2012, 2013
39. Andorra – 2012
40. Luxembourg – 2013
41. Netherlands – 2013, 2015
42. San Marino – 2013
43. Poland – 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
44. Thailand – 2014
45. Hungary – 2014
46. Denmark – 2015, 2019
47. Belize – 2016
48. Guatemala – 2016
49. Honduras – 2016
50. El Salvador – 2016
51. Cyprus – 2016
52. Northern Cyprus * – 2016
53. Kosovo – 2016
54. Panama – 2017
55. Costa Rica – 2017
56. Nicaragua – 2017
57. Bosnia & Herzegovina – 2017
58. Montenegro – 2017
59. Slovenia – 2017
60. Russia – 2018
61. Finland – 2018
62. Estonia – 2018
63. Uganda – 2019
64. Japan – 2019
65. Slovakia – 2019
66. Latvia – 2019
67. Zambia – 2022
68. Romania – 2023
69. South Africa – 2024
70. Botswana – 2024
71. Zimbabwe – 2024
72. Ireland – 2024

* These countries aren’t technically countries, but I count them anyway. For one reason or another they have enough separation from the country they’re actually a part of, so I count them as a separate country. As for Antarctica, it doesn’t belong to anyone and has no permanent residents, so again, it seems separate enough. Also, that means most of these are included on the map with the country they officially belong to, and Antarctica sadly doesn’t show up on the map at all.