Lists

There is a large thunderstorm underway outside right now.

Well, you'd think after five weeks of being away from working on thesis revisions that I would naturally be able to jump right in and get the thing finished. I'm finding procrastination to be a difficult thing to conquer. Oh well.

On one of the train rides a couple of weeks ago, I think from Cusco to Puno, Peru, about 10 hours, James and I were making some lists of various things while passing the time (favorite books, books read just this year, places in the world we want to visit/travel to in the future but haven't yet, etc.).

Specific places or areas I would like to visit in the future (but haven't already):
-Ruins of Pompeii (near Naples, Italy)
-Amalfi Coast (near Naples, Italy)
-(well, much of Italy, really - Venice, Rome, Florence, Tuscany, Sicily, and aforementioned)
-Greece
-Other places in Mediterranean Europe
-Various places in and around the Alps in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria
-Black Forest and Bavaria in Germany
-Lands End (UK)
-More of Ireland
-Iguasu Falls (Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil)
-Hawaii (specifically Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, and Haleakala National Park on Maui, well and much of the rest of the state too of course)
-Alaska (many places really - Glacier Bay, Anchorage, Fairbanks - Dad was born near there, Mt. McKinley - Denali, Alaska Marine Highway, AlCan Highway, etc.)
-Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
-More of Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Bali, Vietnam, etc.)
-Taj Mahal, Varanasi, and Rajasthan (India)
-Pyramids of Giza and other ruins (Egypt)
-Huangshan scenic mountain area (China)
-Karst landscapes of Guangxi Province near Guilin (China)
-Great Wall of China (well, much more of China in general - Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Yangtze River area, etc.)
-Acadia National Park (Maine), and other parts of New England
-Prince Edward Island and Atlantic Canada
-Japan (Mt. Fuji, and many other areas)
-Easter Island (owned by Chile)
-Galapagos Islands (owned by Ecuador)
-Australia and New Zealand
-Islands of the South Pacific
-More places/islands in the Caribbean
-Central American countries
-Turkey
-The Holy Land
-Chile and Argentina (various places)
-Iceland
-Scandinavia
-Central Europe

Okay, well I might be getting carried away. But, there are probably many other places that I would want to add to this list but haven't thought of them at the moment. I've just been stricken by wanderlust for a very long time. I don't know why. But I don't mind it either. Maybe its part of being a geographer too.

Countries I've already been to:
-Much of the United States
-Canada (Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia provinces)
-Mexico (Sonora, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Morelos, Puebla, Guerrero, and Oaxaca states)
-United Kingdom (London, England, Scotland)
-Ireland
-France
-Belgium
-The Netherlands
-Germany
-The Caribbean (U.S. Virgin Islands, Bahamas, French West Indies, Netherlands Antilles)
-Hong Kong (formerly British, now part of China)
-Macau (formerly Portuguese, now part of China)
-China (Hainan and Guangdong provinces)
-Thailand (Bangkok and Chiang Mai)
-Burma
-India (West Bengal and Orissa states)
-Ecuador
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Japan (just transiting twice, though)