November 2003

Surfing tragedy

These two pictures from an article in today’s NY Times are as compelling a wordless narrative as you’re likely to see.

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Traveler’s Century Club

The Traveler’s Century Club is for people who have visited at least 100 countries, where they (somewhat arbitrarily) define countries as places that are politically, ethnologically, or geographically distinct. They define 317 such countries, but I’ve so far only visited 50. Here’s my list.

Here’s a New York Times article on the TCC and one from Travel & Leisure.

Obviously, one gets a huge bang for your buck out of Carribean-style cruises, versus the sort of traveling I’ve done recently where I spend two weeks in the Galapagos, or Uganda, or Croatia, or Ghana. Still, slowly but surely….

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