Create your own personalized map of the USA
Apparently I've only visited 76% of the United States; that's what, a C? C+? Of course, there were some states I wasn't sure about: I may have been to Delaware and Rhode Island (did we hit either of those when the fam picked me up from Peace?) and while I've never been anywhere else in Georgia, I have been to the Atlanta airport seven or eight times so maybe I can count that (I didn't on this map). Depending on how you figure it, then, I still need those states (maybe) plus Wisconsin (we've talked about visiting the Dells), the Dakotas, Maine, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida (we may go there for a "medical conference" next fall, if we can swing it financially) and the far-flung Alaska and Hawaii.
Create your own visited countries map
The 10 countries I've visited (US, Canada, Mexico; Brazil; Austria, Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, UK) represent only 4% of the world. F. Now that's disappointing! I've definitely got to get out more. :-P
Where have you been?
~RCH~
7 comments:
I checked it out and I have also been to 76% of the states, but I only hit 1% of the countries. Let me know when you want to start traveling and I will sign up to go too. Got the passport, just need to use it.
Hey, I copied you and I am trying to post my maps but they are not fitting on my blog page. I have saved the post as a draft. Can you help me??
I am not very good at math so I will not be doing the percent thing...
Frau Bailey, I had the same problem. Instead of putting the picture in as-is myself with the img src= tag, I fixed it by clicking on the little image icon in Blogger's HTML editor and letting Blogger insert the image itself. It lets you choose whether you want it displayed small, medium, or large; I chose large. Because Blogger's doing it, it'll fit in your template better (though the end result does leave it looking a little squished up -- oh well).
Does that make any sense? :-P
Oh, also, when you create your maps that site will tell you what your percentages are. I'm not a mather either, lol.
Okay, so I found you through FMH (lovely site) and I'm intrigued by the fact that you've been to Portugal and Brazil and that you make feijoada. What's the Portuguese connection?
Sinceramente,
Boquinha ;)
My dad and both of my brothers (plus a brother-in-law!) served LDS missions in Brasil, so it's from that family connection that I learned the few Portuguese phrases I know and how I got a taste for feijoada (and guarana!). :-)
When I was a teenager, one of my dad's good friends & former missionary companions was called as the president of the Lisbon South mission; he had two daughters around my age, so rather than send me off as a foreign exchange student to people I didn't know -- which is what I had been begging to do -- my parents sent me to live with them for a summer. (We all got Eurail passes and gallivanted around Europe on trains, which is how I got most of the other countries in that part of the world.)
Several years later, my little brother finished up his mission in Curitiba, Brasil; my dad, a few sisters and I went to pick him up. We got Varig flight passes that let us visit 5 additional cities, so we got to see a lot of that country as well (and visit with families my dad taught ~35 years earlier -- very cool).
So sadly we have no actual genetic connection to either Portugal or Brasil (my family is as pasty pale Anglo as they come, lol) but we have a strong emotional tie to those places. I love, love, love Portugal (Lisbon was fabulous, and I still dream about the beautiful Alentejo countryside sometimes) and Brasil was amazing in all its variety. I love hearing the language (I don't speak it well at all, but I understand what I hear a little better than I speak) and some of it has crept into my everyday vocabulary (saudades, for one -- there's just no right word for that in English, and now you've got me feeling it for all my old travels, lol).
Anyway! Sorry to be so long-winded, but there you go; that's the connection. And now I want to go back! :-P
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Ooh, wait! I have been to Alabama! I stopped in Eutaw once. Maybe that raises my grade to a B-?
Okay, you've got to give me a way to contact you! Email? I'm 100% Portuguese. I grew up in the states. My brother's served in Brazil Curtitiba and I've served in Portugal Lisbon South!! I love feijoada. I am HEAD OVER HEELS in love with Lisbon, Sintra, and the Alantejo. Where do you live? What else do we have in common? Let's travel!! :P
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