Where To Begin?
My first trip overseas was to Spain in the eighth grade. I’m really not sure what put the travel bug in my head, it just seemed like a neat thing to do. Maybe it was inspired by my Dad’s trip to China, or maybe it was just the first serious decision I’d ever been extended. Whatever the motivation, I remember the feeling of wonder at the most mundane things in another country. And the need to photograph them.
Keeping Track
I’ve been to a bunch of places now and I’m excited about going to more. But how to keep a tabulation on it all? I can recall extensive travel vacations across the U.S. when I was a child. Flashes and fragments, markers and memories. So many, I’m afraid I’ve legitimately forgotten the details of some.
So this is an effort, at least, to catalog these places and times along with my impressions using photographs to anchor the dates and coordinates. It’ll be an ongoing adventure to see if I can:
- complete the site
- actually update it
Maps
I like maps. That’s honestly a large part of the appeal of travel for me. Studying a map and figuring out how things connect; then trying to remember it and transpose it into useful information.
So here’s a map of places to which I’ve traveled. I’m trying my best to make it comprehensive, but there’s a chance I’ve missed an entry; particularly on the domestic list. It’s all just based on my own remembrance and pictures I’ve taken along the way. These points should correlate with the coming travel posts I will create, so they function as an aid to me in my quest here.
Entry Points
This is more exciting for me than for you. I know this. But to make getting around as easy as possible, I’ve organized these travels into three main groupings found in the top navigation bar:
- Trips – A list of pages describing the various journeys that I’ve taken
- Voyages – Somehow making a trip on a ship is different…
- Ships – Some information on the ships themselves
- bonus: Countries Listed Alphabetically – Just a category search of posts
- future: Map – eventually those map points should have links to the trip information here.