1,000 Places — Norm's Version

During my travels and meeting new friends, when the conversation turns to travel, I am regularly asked what my favorite country is. However, I do have special memories of a number of places I have visited and events that I have experienced. Although my list is not as comprehensive as the book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, it is my personal answer to it. Italicized entries are headings and are not counted in the total.

✦ Alaska

• Seeing grizzly bears fishing at Brooks Lodge, Katmai National Park
• Kenai Fjords National Park / Wilderness Lodge
• Wet suit snorkeling in Ketchikan
• Denali Park bus ride to Wonder Lake
• Denali Flightseeing (Sheldon Air) and landing on a glacier
• Cruise up to Hubbard Glacier
• Denali – Anchorage by Rail

✦ Arizona

• Boyce Arboretum
• Canyon Lake
• OdySea Aquarium

✦ Arkansas

• Walmart Museum, Bentonville

✦ California

• Skiing Heavenly Valley, Lake Tahoe
• San Francisco
  • The Walt Disney Family Museum
  • Fisherman's Wharf
  • Cable Cars
• Los Angeles
• Disneyland
• Universal Studios Hollywood
• 17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach
• Hearst Castle
• Redwood National Park
• San Diego
• Pacific Coast Highway

✦ Colorado

• Bishop Castle
• Steamboat Springs
  • Skiing
  • Hot Springs
  • Hospital staff (snapped clavicle)
• Skiing
  • Snowmass — Pine Creek Cookhouse (Aspen sleigh ride and dinner)
  • Vail

✦ Connecticut

• Mark Twain House

✦ Georgia

• World of Coca Cola
• CNN
• Stone Mountain
• Georgia Aquarium
• Savannah: Wormsloe, Bonaventure Cemetery, City Trolley

✦ Florida

• Disney World Resort
• Trainer for a Day, Discovery Cove, Orlando
• Busch Gardens, Keeper for a Day, Tampa
• Key West
  • Circumnavigate on jet skis
  • Duval St
  • Hemingway House
• St Augustine

✦ Illinois

• Chicago
  • Millennium Park
  • Cloud Gate
  • Buckingham Fountain – Grant Park
  • Navy Pier

✦ Hawaii

• Open door helicopter in Kauai
• Road to Hana via rental car and App
• Lahaina Lights Tasting Tour with GiGi
• Airbnb on a 70' Wooden ship in Honolulu
• Molokini Snorkeling (with a full whale breach on the way)
• Tour of Oahu with Cyndia (Donna's Detours)
• Island of Hawaii — Volcanoes National Park

✦ Kansas

• Tanganyika Wildlife Park

✦ Louisiana

• New Orleans Jazz Fest
• Aquarium of the Americas
• French Quarter
• Honey Island Swamp Tour

✦ Massachusetts

• Boston
• Big E, Springfield
• Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield
• Cape Cod
• Martha's Vineyard
• Nantucket

✦ Michigan

• Biking around Mackinac Island
• Henry Ford Museum

✦ Minnesota

• State Fair
• Chain of lakes, Minneapolis
• Guthrie Theatre
• Walker Art Center
• Paisley Park

✦ Missouri

• Lake of the Ozarks
• Top of the St Louis Arch

✦ Montana

• The National Bison Range

✦ Nevada

• Inside the Hoover Dam
• Las Vegas
  • Helicopter to Grand Canyon
  • Vegas Strip
  • Bellagio Hotel & Fountains
  • MGM Lions (pet cubs)
  • Zumanity

✦ New Jersey

• Atlantic City

✦ New York

• New York City
  • World Trade Center Memorial
  • World Trade Center, Top of the World observation deck
  • Circle Manhattan cruise
  • The Cloisters
  • Statue of Liberty
  • Ellis Island
  • Central Park
  • 4th of July Fireworks, East River
  • Tram to Roosevelt Island
  • Subway System
  • Grand Central Station
  • High Line Park
  • Lincoln Center
  • Christmas at Rockefeller Center
  • Times Square
  • Tenement Museum
• The Rockefeller Estate
• Niagara Falls

✦ New Mexico

• Albuquerque, Breaking Bad RV Tour
• Taos, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge

✦ North Carolina

• Drove/Ferry NC Outer Banks – Highway 12: Point Harbor to Cedar Island

✦ Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia
• Fallingwater
• Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center

✦ Ohio

• Pro-football Hall of Fame, Canton
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
• Siberian Tiger Conservation Association, Gambier (shut down by USDA)

✦ Oregon

• Walking to the top of Multnomah Falls
• Crater Lake

✦ Rhode Island

• Newport Cliff Walk

✦ South Carolina

• Charleston
  • Aiken-Rhett House
  • Drayton House

✦ South Dakota

• Black Hills
  • Mount Rushmore
  • Crazy Horse
  • Wall Drug
• Corn Palace, Mitchell

✦ Tennessee / Kentucky

• Louisville
  • Churchill Downs, Kentucky Oaks
  • Jim Beam Distillery
  • Claiborne Farms
• Memphis
  • Beale Street
  • Graceland

✦ Texas

• San Antonio
  • Alamo
  • River Walk
• Austin
• Dallas

✦ Utah

• Temple Square
• Antelope Island State Park
• Skiing: Deer Valley, Park City, Snowbird, Alta

✦ Vermont

• Lyndon, Vermont Covered Bridges
• Killington, skiing

✦ Virginia

• Colonial Williamsburg
• Mount Vernon
• Arlington National Cemetery
• National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
• Edgar Cayce's A.R.E (Virginia Beach)

✦ Washington, DC

• Washington Monument
• U.S. Capitol
• National Air and Space Museum
• Hirshhorn Museum
• Museum of American History
• White House
• Kennedy Center
• National Zoo
• Segway Tour of the Mall

✦ Wisconsin

• House on the Rock, Spring Green
• Wisconsin Dells
• Circus World Museum, Baraboo
• Wisconsin State Fair
• Milwaukee County Zoo
• Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, Chippewa Falls
• Airbnb Schwartz House, Two Rivers (Frank Lloyd Wright House)

✦ Wyoming

• Devils Tower
• Yellowstone National Park
  • Old Faithful Geyser
  • Geyser Basins, Hot Springs, Mud Pots

✦ Canada

• Niagara Falls
  • Maid of the Mist
  • Butterfly Garden
• Bicycling around Niagara on the Lake
• Lake Louise Ski resort, overlooking lake and hotel
• Carefully skiing trees in Whistler, British Columbia
• Bay of Fundy
• Prince Edward Island Lighthouse tour
• Montreal
  • River cruise
  • Old Montreal
• Toronto
  • CN Tower
  • A 2 hour sail on Lake Ontario
• Old Quebec City
• St. John's, Newfoundland — Signal Hill
• Rocky Mountaineer, Vancouver to Banff and bus to Jasper
• VIA train from Jasper to Toronto

✦ Manitoba

• Winnipeg
  • Canadian Museum of Human Rights
  • Visiting Polar Bears outside of Churchill, Manitoba 1997 and 2017

✦ St. Pierre Miquelon (France)

✦ Algeria

• Algiers
  • Casbah
  • Botanical Garden
• Tipaza Ruine Romaine

✦ Angola

• Luanda
  • Augostinho Neto Mausoleum
  • Fortaleza de Sao Miguel
  • Church of Our Lady of Nazareth

✦ Botswana

• Okavango Delta
  • Mokoro canoe ride
  • Sleep in a tree house
• Chobe National Park

✦ Cape Verde

• Mindelo

✦ Egypt

• The Valley of the Kings
  • Ramesses VI Tomb
• The Great Pyramid of Cheops — entering the pyramid and climbing to the King's vault
• The Great Sphinx of Giza
• Karnak Temple
• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
• Egyptian Museum
• City of Alexandria
  • Catacombs
  • Qaitbey Fortress
• Nile Cruise

✦ Ethiopia

• Lalibela Churches
• Lucy at the National Museum of Ethiopia
• Addis Ababa recycle market

✦ Ghana

• Kakum National Park
• Elmina Castle

✦ Ivory Coast

• Abidjan
• Cathedrale St. Paul

✦ Kenya

• Carnivore Restaurant: Beast of a Feast
• Maasai Mara safari
• Maasai Village
• Balloon Ride over Maasai Mara
• Nairobi
  • Giraffe Manor (Kissing Stacy)
  • Kazuri Bead Factory
  • Kibera slum – Nubian Quarter
  • Local Bus ride (Disco)
• Lake Nakuru National Park
• Amboseli National Park
• Maasai Livestock Sale

✦ Lesotho

• Afriski (summer)

✦ Malawi

• Liwonde National Park
• The "Hide"
• Lake Malawi

✦ Morocco

• Casablanca
  • The Hassan II Mosque
  • Camel meat market
• Fez
• Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
• Marrakech
• Merzouga Desert Camp

✦ Mozambique

• Maputo

✦ Namibia

• Swakop and Khan River Valley — a unique tour of the Namib Desert
• Walvis Bay

✦ Rwanda

• Kigali Genocide Memorial
• Gorilla Trekking

✦ Sao Tome & Principe

• Coco Plantation(s)

✦ Senegal

• Dakar
  • Le Monument de la Renaissance Africaine
• Goree Island
• Pink Lake

✦ South Africa

• Cape Town
  • Table Mountain
  • Historic City Walking Tour
  • Bo-Kaap Walking tour
  • Camps Bay
  • Boulders Beach (Penguins)
• Johannesburg
  • Apartheid Museum
  • Soweto
  • Kliptown Youth Programme
  • Mandela House
• Sani Pass
• Durban
  • Giants Castle
  • Nelson Mandela Capture Site and sculpture
• St. Lucia — Boat Ride on St Lucia Estuary with Hippos
• Golden Gate Highlands National Park

✦ Tanzania

• A balloon ride over the Serengeti at dawn. Getting married at touchdown was a super added bonus. Re-experienced 10/2018
• Ngorongoro Crater
  • Visit with Hadzabe: the Bushman
• Maasai Village
• Mto Wa Mbu Village
• Serengeti National Park — Tented camp, with pit & bucket shower
• Tarangire National Park
• Arusha National Park
• Zanzibar
  • Prison Island
  • Stone Town — Freddy Mercury Museum

✦ The Gambia

• Banjul
• Serrekunda Central Market
• Bakau
• Tanji Fishing Village

✦ Togo

• Lome
  • Fetish market
  • Guen Village and Voodoo ceremony

✦ Tunisia

• La Goulette
• Sidi Bou Said
• Carthage
• Medina

✦ Uganda

• Entebbe
• Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
  • Gorilla trekking
• Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary
• Kibale Forest National Park
• Queen Elizabeth National Park — Boat Ride up the Kizinga Channel

✦ Zambia

• Devils Pool, on the edge of Victoria Falls
• Kafue National Park

✦ Zimbabwe

• Harare — Meet Lazarus Takawira, sculptor
• Victoria Falls — Cross bridge to Zambia
• Lake Kariba
• Hwange National Park

✦ Swaziland (Kingdom of eSwatini)

• Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary

✦ Austria

• Salzburg
  • Hellbrunn Water Gardens and Palace
  • Fortress Hohensalzburg
• Vienna
  • St. Stephen's Cathedral
  • Hofburg
  • Lipizzaners Morning Exercise
  • Schonbrunn Palace
• Wachau Valley
  • Melk Abbey (Outside Only, err)
  • Durnstein

✦ Belgium

• Brussels
  • Les Galeries Saint-Hubert
  • Manneken-Pis
  • Atomium

✦ Corsica

• Bonifacio

✦ Denmark

• Kronborg Castle
• Copenhagen
  • Tivoli Gardens
  • Little Mermaid
  • Walking Nyhavn (New Harbor)

✦ Elba

✦ England

• Stonehenge
• Bath Abbey
• Leeds Castle
• Carlisle Castle and Cathedral
• London
  • Tower of London
  • Madame Tussaud's
  • Windsor Castle
  • Westminster Abbey
  • Lloyd's of London
• Holy Island and Lindisfarne Priory (Abbey)
• Farne Islands
• Durham Cathedral
• North York Moors National Park
• Rievaulx Abbey

✦ Faroe Islands

• Vestmanna Sea Cliffs

✦ Finland

• Helsinki, Suomenlinna Sea Fortress
• Aland Islands, Mariehamn

✦ France

• Paris
  • Eiffel Tower
  • Versailles
  • Louvre
  • Notre Dame — Climb to Belfry
  • Arc de Triomphe (climb to top)
• St Emilion — Underground Saint-Emilion
• Bordeaux
  • La Cite du Vin (Wine museum)
  • Mellesima wine merchant
  • Riverside Fountains
• Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey
• Biarritz
• Aix-en-Provence
• Avignon — Palace of the Pope
• Orange — Roman Amphitheater
• Camargue — Church of Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
• Arles
• Lyon
  • Street Art
  • Basilica
• Beaune
  • Basilica
  • E-Bike route through Vineyards
  • Hospices de Beaune
• Fontenay Abbey, Montbard
• Epernay
• Loire Valley
  • Nantes Grand Elephant
  • Chateaux: Amboise, Chenonceau, Angers, Chambord, Chateau du Clos Luce

✦ Germany

• Mercedes Benz Plant tour, Stuttgart
• Frankfurt, Christmas Market
• Berlin
  • Brandenburg Gate
  • Holocaust Memorial
  • Eastside Gallery

✦ Greece

• Athens
  • Acropolis/Parthenon
  • Tomb of The Unknown Soldier and Changing of The Guards
  • New Acropolis Museum
  • Temple of Zeus
• Corinth Canal
• Rhodes — The Palace of the Grand Master
• Delphi
• Chios
• Corfu
  • Achillion Palace
  • Paleokastritsa
  • Kanoni
• Santorini (beautiful, but it scarred me)
• Olympia
• Zakynthos — Blue Caves
• Patmos
  • Monastery of St John
  • ATV tour of the whole island
• Crete
  • Knossos
  • Archaeological Museum
• Mykonos — ATV Tour
• Meteora — Climbed to 4 Monasteries
• Perama Cave, Ioannina

✦ Greenland

• Kulusuk

✦ Gibraltar, United Kingdom

✦ Guernsey — Castle Cornet

✦ Iceland

• Blue Lagoon
• Geyser
• People (First Visit)
• Waterfalls
• Dry snorkeling touching two continents
• East Highlands

✦ Ireland

• Ashford Castle
• Adare Manor
• Cliffs of Moher
• Ring of Kerry
• Dromoland Castle — A falcon walk/hunt with an owl finish
• Dublin
  • Guinness Storehouse
  • Temple Bar
• Skellig Michael

✦ Isle of Man

• Peel
• Laxey Wheel
• St Johns and Tynwald
• Cregneish Village and Sound

✦ Italy

• Pompeii — Villa of the Mysteries
• Venice
  • St. Mark's Basilica
  • Piazza San Marco
  • Cruise Captain night tour
  • Peggy Guggenheim Collection
  • Murano
  • Doge's Palace — Bridge of Sighs
  • Gondola through the canals
  • Rialto Bridge
  • Speed Boat to airport
  • Redentore Festival Fireworks
• Rome
  • Spanish Steps
  • Colosseum
  • Pantheon
  • Trevi Fountain
  • The Forum
  • Capuchin Crypt
• Fresh olive oil in Tuscany, with wine and bread. You can taste the color green!
• Florence
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Capri, funicular up the hillside
• Amalfi Coast — Cathedral of Amalfi
• Treviso
• Ravenna
  • Basilica of San Vitale
  • Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
• Sorrento
• Taormina, Sicily — Mt Etna
• Bologna — Food Tour: Parmigiano Reggiano, Prosciutto di Parma, Balsamic Vinegar factory
• Modena — Pavarotti House
• Marche region, Montelupone and around

✦ Jersey

• War Tunnels
• Mont Orgueil Castle

✦ Liechtenstein

✦ Luxembourg

• Vianden Castle

✦ Malta

• Valletta City Center
• Mdina
• St. Paul's Catacombs

✦ Monaco

• Monte-Carlo Grand Casino

✦ Netherlands

• Walking the Red Light District of Amsterdam
• Keukenhof Gardens
• Van Gogh Museum
• Royal Delft Factory
• Amsterdam canal tour
• Den Haag
• Zaanse Schans

✦ Northern Ireland

• Giant Causeway
• Carrick-A-Rede and Larrybane
• Bus Tour of Belfast

✦ Norway

• Oslo
• Svalbard — Dog Sledding 21 Kilometers to glacier Ice Cave

✦ Portugal

• Lisbon
  • Belem Pastry
  • Castelo de S. Jorge
  • Torre de Belem
• Porto
  • Majestic Cafe
  • Livraria Lello — "the most beautiful bookstore in the world"
• Douro River Valley
• Palace of Pena
• National Palace of Sintra
• Funchal, Madeira
  • Cabo Girao
  • Porto Moniz
• Azores: Pico, Terceira, Faial, Sao Miguel

✦ San Marino

• Fortress 1 & 2

✦ Sardinia

• Neptune's Grotto via walking from the top of Capo Caccia

✦ Scotland

• Edinburgh Castle
• New Town
• St Giles Cathedral
• Linlithgow Palace
• Medwyn House B&B (best carrot soup)

✦ Spain

• Madrid
  • Bull Fight in Madrid
  • Museo Del Prado
  • Royal Palace
  • Salmon Guru
• Granada — Alhambra
• Cordoba — Mezquita (Mosque/Cathedral)
• Barcelona
  • Sagrada Familia
  • Park Guell
  • La Pedrera
  • Gothic Quarter
• Seville
  • Plaza de Espana
  • Seville Cathedral
• Toledo
• Mountain of Montserrat — Basilica and La Moreneta (Black Madonna)
• Mountain drive to Andorra
• Merida
• Mallorca
  • Cathedral of Majorca
  • Palma
  • Bellver Castle
  • Valldemosa
• Tenerife, Canary Islands
  • Auditorio de Tenerife
  • National Park of the Canadas
• Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands
  • National Park Caldera de Taburiente
  • Las Nieves
  • Las Manchas (Plaza de La Glorieta)
• Bilbao
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Pintxos
• San Sebastian
• Dolmens
• Ronda
• Melilla
• Malaga
  • Picasso Museum
  • El Torcal National Park
• Galicia — Boat Tour on Bay with all the mussels you can eat, plus Albarino
• Camino de Santiago, many pieces, but not walking
• Paradores
  • Parador de Santiago de Compostela
  • Parador de Baiona
  • Parador de Monforte de Lemos
• Hotel Marques de Riscal
• Salamanca

✦ Sweden

• Visby / Gotland
• Stockholm
  • Vasa Museum
  • Drottningholm Palace
  • Royal Palace
  • Skansen

✦ Switzerland

• Hotel Bellevue, Mt Pilatus
• Geneva
• Zermatt — Paragliding
• Car Train
• Glacier 3000
• Chillon Castle, Montreux
• Thun Castle, Bern
• Jungfraujoch
• Gruyeres — Giger Museum
• Basel
• Rapperswil — Town of Roses
• Murten — Morat
• Via Ferrata, Murren
• Cailler Chocolate Factory

✦ Turkey

• Istanbul
  • Topkapi Palace
  • The Blue Mosque
  • Basilica Cistern
  • Haghia Sophia
  • Bosphorus Boat ride
  • Church of St. George
  • Galata Tower
  • Cagaloglu Hamam
  • Food Tour with Oguz Kosebalaban (TBL)
• Ephesus
• The Virgin Mary's Natural and Cultural Park
• Cappadocia
  • Sunrise Balloon ride
  • Underground City
  • Uchisar Rock Castle
  • Fairy Chimneys
  • Kale Konak Cave Hotel
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
  • Saint Hilarion Castle
  • Bellapais (Tree of Idleness, Monastery, Durrell house)

✦ Vatican City

• St. Peter's Basilica — Climbing to the top
• Vatican Museums
• St. Peter's Square
• Sistine Chapel

✦ Wales

• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
• Conway Castle
• Caernarfon Castle
• Snowdonia National Park

✦ Albania

• Enver Hoxha's Bunker
• Countryside & Bunkers
• Elbasan
• People

✦ Armenia

• Yerevan
  • Matenadaran Museum
  • Genocide Museum
• Monastery Khor Virap
• Monastery of Haghpat
• Monastery of Geghard
• Echmiadzin and Temple of Zvartnots
• Tatev — Gondola and Monastery
• Nagorno-Karabakh — Stepanakert

✦ Azerbaijan

• Nakhchivan
  • "Duzdagh" Salt Mine Cave
  • Alinja Fortress
  • Ashabu-Kahf Cave
• Baku
  • Maidens Tower
  • Ateshgah — Temple of Fire-worshipers
  • Gobustan — Mud Volcanoes and Petroglyphs
  • Krasnaya Sloboda
  • Sheki

✦ Georgia

• Tbilisi
• Mtskheta — Jvari Monastery and Bagrati Cathedral
• Cave City of Uplistsikhe
• Svaneti — Mestia and Ushguli

✦ Belarus

• Minsk
• Convent of St Euphrosinia
• Khatyn Memorial
• Mir Fortress
• Nesvizh Palace

✦ Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Republic of Srpska
• Gradacac (City and Fortress)

✦ Bulgaria

• Arbanasi
• Rila Monastery
• St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

✦ Croatia

• Dubrovnik
• Sibenik — Krka Waterfalls
• Brijuni, Tito's Zoo
• Korcula
• Pula
• Mali Losinj
• Vukovar Memorial Cemetery
• Cathedral in Dakovo with fresco showing the handing down of the ten commandments to Moses, by Allah

✦ Czech Republic

• Prague
  • Charles Bridge
  • Prague Castle
  • St. Vitus Cathedral
  • St. Nicholas Church
  • Astronomical Clock
  • Jewish Quarter
  • Karlstejn Castle (outside of town)

✦ Estonia

• Biking in Tallinn

✦ Hungary

• Kalocsa (Red Paprika, Horsemen, Cathedral)
• Budapest
  • Heroes' Square
  • City Park, including Szechenyi Baths and Vajdahunyad Castle
  • Jewish Quarter
  • Shoes on the Danube Bank
  • Central Market Hall
  • Castle District
  • Matthias Church
• Eger (in the valley of the beautiful women)
  • Magic Tower
  • Wine Caves / Wine Bars

✦ Kosovo

• Pristina
• Prizren

✦ North Macedonia

• Memorial House of Mother Theresa, Skopje
• Archaeological site Stobi
• Ohrid
• Habitat for Humanity build, Veles
• Tikves Winery
• Matka Canyon

✦ Moldova

• Chisinau
• Curchi Monastery
• Orhei Vechi Monastery
• Transdniester — Turkish Fort

✦ Montenegro

• Kotor
  • Isles of Sveti Dorde (St George) and Gospa od Skrpjela (Our Lady of the Rocks)
  • Cathedral of Saint Tryphon
  • Climbing to the city walls and fortress

✦ Romania

• Bucharest
  • Palace of Parliament
  • Royal Palace Square
• The Statue of King Decebal
• Sinaia (Peles Castle and Sinaia Monastery)
• Transylvania
  • Bran Castle
  • Rasnov Fortress
  • Brasov (Black Church, Rope Street, Black and White Towers)

✦ Russia

• St. Petersburg
  • Peterhof Fountains
  • Amber Room at Catherine's Palace
  • Church on Spilled Blood
  • St. Peter's Cathedral
  • Hermitage Museum
  • Peter & Paul Fortress
  • Smolny Cathedral
• Kaliningrad
  • Svetlogorsk
  • Konigsberg Cathedral

✦ Serbia

• Djerdap Gorge (Iron Gate)
• The Trajan's Tablet
• Belgrade
  • Serbian Orthodox Cathedral
  • Kalemegdan Fortress

✦ Slovakia

• Bratislava
  • Old Quarter
  • Bratislava Castle

✦ Slovenia

• Koper
• Hrastovlje — Church of Holy Trinity – Dance of Death
• Secovlje Salina nature park
• Plahuta Winery, drinking Refosck and Malvazia

✦ Ukraine

• Kiev
  • Lavra Monastery
  • St. Sophia Cathedral and Monastery
  • Freedom Square
  • WWII Memorial
• Lviv
• Chernivtsi
  • Residence of Bukovynian Metropolitans, now Chernivtsi National University
  • St. Nicholas Cathedral

✦ Bahrain

• With a woman guide with many interesting opinions
• Bait Al-Quran
• Camel farm
• King Fahad Causeway to Tower restaurant
• Masada

✦ Israel

• Swimming in the Dead Sea
• Jerusalem
  • Mount of Olives
  • Dome of the Rock (view)
  • Church of All Nations, said to enshrine a section of bedrock where Jesus prayed before his arrest
  • Western (Wailing) Wall
  • Church of the Holy Sepulcher
  • Walk through Muslim Quarter, Christian Quarter and part of the Via Dolorosa

✦ Jordan

• Petra
• Wadi Rum
• Jerash
• Kerak Castle
• Mount Nebo
• Fruit and Vegetable market in Amman
• Little Petra

✦ Kuwait

• Kuwait City — Kuwait Towers

✦ Lebanon

• Beirut
  • National Museum of Beirut
  • Port Explosion site
• Baalbeck Temples

✦ Oman

• Muscat — Forts Tour
  • Nizwa — Round Tower Fort
  • Jabrin

✦ Palestine

• Birkat Al Mauz
• Checkpoints and Murals
• Bethlehem
  • Manger Square
  • Church of the Nativity
  • Christian Grotto

✦ Qatar

• Doha
  • Equestrian Club
  • Markets: Falcon, Fish, Old Souq

✦ Saudi Arabia

• Riyadh
  • Al Masmak Fortress
  • Edge of the World
  • King Abdullah Financial District
• Buraidah Camel Market
• Hutaymah Crater
• Al Ula
  • Madakhil Rock Arch
  • Hegra Tombs
  • Elephant Rock
  • Maraya Concert Hall
  • Red Sea Snorkeling (Yanbu)
• Al Bahah
  • Al Malad Twin Watch Towers
  • Shada al Asfal Mountain Drive
  • Zee Ain

✦ United Arab Emirates

• Dubai
  • Staying at the Burj Al Arab
  • Ski Dubai
  • Flying over the World and Palms
  • Sundowner Jeep safari of the dunes and a camp dinner
  • Dhow cruise
• Abu Dhabi — Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
• Visiting all other Emirates by car

✦ Comoros

• Baobabs, Abandoned Cars and garbage

✦ Madagascar

• Nosy Be
• Antananarivo — Queens Palace
• Madagascar Exotic Park
• Analamazaotra National Park
• Nosy Soa Park

✦ Maldives

• Male
• Maafushi and Gulhi

✦ Mauritius

• Chamarel and Coloured Dunes
• Rodrigues Island

✦ Mayotte

• Snorkeling

✦ Reunion Island

• Volcanoes and Black Beaches

✦ Seychelles Islands

• La Digue
• Fregate Island
• Aride
• Cousin
• Curieuse
• Praslin
• Mahe
• Desroches

✦ Bangladesh

• Meghna River Cruise

✦ Bhutan

• Chime Lhakhang dedicated to Lam Drukpa Kuenley the "Divine Madman"
• Punakha Dzong
• Tiger's Nest Monastery

✦ Brunei

• Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque
• Kampung Ayer (floating village)
• Royal Regalia Exhibition Hall
• The Empire Hotel

✦ Cambodia

• Angkor Temples
• Floating villages of Kompong Kleang

✦ China

• Three Gorges Dam under construction in August 2000
• Great Wall of China
• Beijing
  • Forbidden City
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Hutong
  • Imperial Summer Palace
• Xian
  • Terra Cotta Warriors
  • Biking City Wall
• Chengdu
  • Dujiangyan aqueduct system
  • China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas, Dujiangyan Base
• Lhasa, Tibet
  • Potala Palace
  • Jokhang Temple
  • Norbulinka — Summer Palace of the Dalai Lama
• Kunming
  • Green Lake Park
  • Stone Forest
  • Jiuxiang Karst Cave
  • Red Lands
• Sanya — Nanshan Cultural Tourist Zone
• Xiamen — Gulangyu Island — Piano Museum
• Shanghai
  • Shanghai Civilized Park
  • Shanghai at Night
  • Water town of Wujiaqiao

✦ Hong Kong

• Chi Lin Nunnery
• Victoria Peak
• Ritz Carlton Ozone Bar
• Cheung Chau
• Avenue of the Stars

✦ India

• The Taj Mahal
• Tiger safari
  • Kanha Game Park
  • Bandhavgarh National Park
• Amer Fort, Jaipur
• Fatehpur Sikri Mosque
• Holi Festival
• Gurdwara Bangla Sahib Kitchen
• Calcutta
  • Flower Market
  • Ganges River
• Kaziranga National Park
• Sikkim
• Mumbai

✦ Indonesia

• Bali
  • Sekumpul Waterfall
  • Trunyan Cemetery
  • Luwak Coffee (Cat-poo-ccino)
  • Royal 100 Candle Light Dinner at Swept Away Restaurant
  • Monkey Forest (Ubud)
  • Lempuyang Temple (The Heaven's Gate)
  • Tanah Lot Temple
• Borneo — Tanjung Puting National Park, 4 days on a Kelotok Boat cruising the Sekonyer River
• Sumatra — Gunung Leuser National Park
• Makassar
• Komodo National Park
• Lembar, Lombok
• Ambon
• Semarang — Gedong Songo Temple complex on horseback
• Surabaya

✦ Japan

• Tokyo and Beyond
  • Tokyo Disneyland
  • Tokyo Subway
  • Tokyo Tower
  • Nikko Toshogu Shrine
  • Mt Fuji – Hakone National Park — Bullet Train back to Tokyo
• Okinawa
  • Shuri Castle
  • Shikinaen Royal Gardens
  • Bise village
  • Cape Manzamo
• Nagoya — The Nagoya Castle – Hommaru Palace
• Osaka
  • Osaka Castle
  • Namba shopping district
• Kyoto
  • Kinkaku-ji Temple
  • Nijo-Jo Castle
• Hiroshima
  • Peace Memorial Park and Museum
  • Shukkeien Garden
• Nagasaki
  • Ropeway
  • Dejima
  • Peace Park

✦ Kazakhstan

• Almaty
  • Altyn-Emel National Park
  • Charyn Canyon

✦ Korea

• Seoul
• Jeju Korea — Loveland
• JSA, Korea (DMZ)

✦ Kyrgyzstan

• Bishkek — Ala Archa National Park
• Song Kul Lake — Freezing in a Yurt
• Kazakh Eagle Hunter
• Fairy Canyon
• Barskoon Valley

✦ Laos

• Vientiane
  • Xieng Khuan Buddha Park
  • Friendship Bridge

✦ Macau

• A-Ma Temple
• Cotai Strip

✦ Malaysia

• Kuching
• Bako National Park
• Batang Ai reservoir and longboat to longhouse
• Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary
• Kuala Lumpur

✦ Mongolia

• Ulaanbaatar
• Hustai National Park
• Genghis Khan Statue
• Meet Eagle Hunters

✦ Myanmar

• Yangon
• Bagan — Sunrise Balloon Ride

✦ Nepal

• Kathmandu
  • Great Boudha Stupa
  • Pashupatinath Temple area
  • Hanuman-Dhaka Durbar Square
  • Swayambhunath Stupa
• Chitwan National Park
• Manakamana Temple

✦ Philippines

• 100 Islands
• Manila
  • Fort Santiago
  • San Agustin Church
• Boracay
• Coron
• Puerto Princesa

✦ Singapore

• Singapore City Gallery — Singapore Past, Present and Future
• Hawker Centers (food)
• Gardens by the Bay — Supertree Grove Light Show
• Pulau Ubin Island

✦ Sri Lanka

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya
• Sacred Temple of the Tooth Relic

✦ Taiwan

• Taipei City
  • The National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall
  • Taipei 101

✦ Tajikistan

• Penjikent
• Gissar
• Lake Iskanderkul (Alexander Lake/River)
• Dushanbe — Museum of National Antiquities & Reclining Buddha

✦ Thailand

• Bangkok Temples
• Hellfire Pass, Kanchanaburi
• Tiger Temple, Kanchanaburi
• Swimming with the elephant Apple in the River Kwai
• Breakfast on the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
• Feeding Monkeys on the way to the Gulf of Thailand via small boat
• Sukhothai
• Yao and Ekaw tribes
• Mekong River
  • Cross to Tachilek, Myanmar
  • Cross to Laos

✦ Timor Leste (East Timor)

• Dili — Cemetery of Santa Cruz

✦ Turkmenistan

• Crater of Darwaza
• Ashgabat
• Merv

✦ Uzbekistan

• Tashkent
• Khiva
• Bukhara — Ark
• Samarkand
  • Registan Square
  • Shah-i-Zinda Mausoleums
  • Observatory of Ulug Beg

✦ Vietnam

• Hanoi
  • Street Food
  • Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum
  • Cafe Giang – Egg Coffee
  • Sitting next to train tracks while train passes by
  • Touring by Motor scooter
• Sapa
  • Hmong Village and Market
  • Ninh Binh
• Hue (Chan May) — Citadel
• Saigon
  • War Remnants Museum
  • Local food

✦ Antarctica

• South Georgia Island — Grytviken Station
• Antarctic Peninsula
  • Landing Hope Bay
  • Landing at Chilean base camp
  • Seeing giant icebergs while soaking in a hot tub on deck 8
• Prone traveling the Drake Passage

✦ Argentina

• Buenos Aires
  • Plaza de Mayo
  • San Telmo
  • La Boca
  • Recoleta Cemetery
  • Subway
  • Puente de la Mujer "Woman's Bridge"
• Iguazu Falls — Boat ride up into Devil's Throat Canyon
• Ushuaia, El Tren Del Fin Del Mundo (The End of the World Train)
• Mendoza — Aroma Room at Belasco de Baquedano winery

✦ Belize

• River boat on the New River
• Mayan Ruins — Temples of Lamanai

✦ Bolivia

• La Paz
  • Valley of the Moon
  • Cable Cars
• Lake Titicaca — Copacabana and Island of the Sun
• Sajama National Park
• Salar de Uyuni — Palacio de Sal (Salt Hotel)
• Uyuni Train Cemetery
• Crossed 16,125 feet on way to Dali Desert

✦ Brazil

• Iguazu Falls (different perspective from Argentina)
• Rio De Janeiro
  • Sambadrome Carnival Parade 2017
  • Christ the Redeemer monument
  • Sugarloaf Mountain via Cable Car
  • Copacabana Beach
  • Ipanema Beach
  • Escadaria Selaron (Selaron Steps)
  • Sao Bento Monastery
• Manaus
  • Swim with Pink Dolphins
  • Meeting of the Waters – Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes
  • Teatro Amazonas (Opera House)
• Olinda
• Recife — Capela Dourada
• Boca Da Valeria
• Fortaleza: Cumbuco Dunes
• Parintins: Boi Bumba stadium and neighborhoods
• Sao Paulo

✦ Chile

• Zapallar
• Parque Metropolitano de Santiago
• Punta Arenas Penguin Colony
• Strait of Magellan
• Valparaiso
• Easter Island
  • Rapa Nui National Park
  • Moai Statues
  • Snorkeling
• Torres del Paine National Park — EcoCamp
• Puerto Montt
• Cape Horn

✦ Colombia

• Cartagena
  • San Felipe Fort
  • Walled City
  • La Popa Monastery
• San Andres Island

✦ Costa Rica

• Poas volcano
• La Paz Waterfall Gardens
• Zip Line, Bahia Drake
• Veragua Rainforest — Zipline

✦ Ecuador

• Quito
• Banco Central Del Ecuador – Museo Nacional
• Intinan Museum
• San Francisco Church (Iglesia de San Francisco)
• Middle of the World (not really)
• The Galapagos Islands
  • Santa Cruz Island — Giant Tortoises
  • Bartolome Island — Lava field
  • James Island (Santiago Island)
  • Fernandina Island
  • Isabela Island
  • North Seymour Island — Frigatebirds & Snorkeling
  • Genovesa Island
  • Rabida Island
• Cloud Forest – Las Terrazas De Dana
  • Hummingbird Garden
  • Birding

✦ El Salvador

• Joya de Ceren
• Coatepeque Lake
• Cerro Verde

✦ Falkland Islands

• Driving past mine fields
• Bluff Cove Lagoon

✦ French Guiana

• Salvation Island, Ile Royale (Devil's Island)
• Penal colony of Saint Laurent de Maroni
• Guiana Space Center Museum

✦ Guatemala

• Iximche Mayan Ruins
• Antigua

✦ Guyana

• Kaieteur Falls
• Howler Monkey Chorus — Mahaica River

✦ Honduras

• Roatan — Zip Line
• Trujillo

✦ Mexico

• Tijuana
  • Border Wall, old and USA Prototype
  • Beach area
  • Panteon Municipal #1, Tomb of Juan Soldado
• Puerto Vallarta — AzAmazing Evening
• Huatulco — Snorkeling
• Los Cabos — ATV Off Road Adventure
• Cozumel
  • Snorkel
  • Chichen Itza Mayan Ruins
• Costa Maya — Dolphin Swim
• Cancun
  • Snorkeling with Whale Sharks
  • Touring Cenotes

✦ Nicaragua

• Habitat for Humanity Build, San Rafael del Sur
• Granada — Boat Tour
• Masaya Volcano National Park
• Leon Viejo and Leon
• White Towns — Caterina overlook of Laguna de Apoyo volcanic crater lake

✦ Panama

• Full transit through the Panama Canal
• Tour of Panama City

✦ Paraguay

• Friendship Bridge to Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este from Brazil

✦ Peru

• Museo Oro del Peru
• Villa El Salvador, Lima
• Guinea Pigs (at home and on a plate)
• Cuzco — Sacsayhuaman Healer
• Climbing Wayna Picchu
• Machu Picchu
• Pisco Sour

✦ Suriname

• Paramaribo

✦ Uruguay

• Colonia, Tour via golf cart
• Punta del Este — The Hand
• Montevideo

✦ Venezuela

• Tour of Caracas
  • Mount Avila cable car
  • Museum of Colonial Art
  • National Heroes Boulevard
• Margarita, La Restinga National Park

✦ Antigua

• Sting Ray City
• St. John's
• Betty's Hope

✦ Aruba

✦ Bahamas

• Scooter around Nassau (scarred again)

✦ Barbados

• Silver Moon Snorkeling
• Crane beach & resort
• St. Peter's Parish Church, Speightstown

✦ Bermuda

• National Museum of Bermuda
• Crystal Caves
• Town of St George

✦ Bonaire

• Golf cart circumnavigation
• Slave Huts
• Mango Forest
• Snorkeling

✦ Cuba

• Coincidencia Farm
• Havana
  • "Fusterlandia"
  • Hotel Nacional
  • Floridita bar
  • Tropicana
• Sancti Spiritus
• Topes de Collantes
• Las Terrazas
• Che Guevara Mausoleum
• Cojiimar

✦ Curacao

• Willemstad
• Scuba lessons at The Dive Bus (flunked out)

✦ Dominica

• Emerald Falls
• Indian River
• Fort Shirley

✦ Dominican Republic

• Santo Domingo
  • Columbus Light House
  • Cathedral of Santa Maria
  • Ozama Fortress
  • Ciudad Colonial

✦ Grand Cayman

• Turtle Farm
• Hell
• Queen Elizabeth Botanic Park
• Drive: Barkers to Rum Point

✦ Grenada

• Gouyave nutmeg station
• Snorkeling and statues underwater

✦ Guadeloupe

• Botanical Garden of Deshaies

✦ Jamaica

• Montego Bay
• Ocho Rios
  • Blue Hole
  • Tubing down White River

✦ Martinique

• Fort-De-France
• Saint-Louis Cathedral

✦ Montserrat

• Apple Records
• Volcano Zone C

✦ Puerto Rico

• Old San Juan, Castillo San Felipe and Castillo Cristobal
• El Yunque rain forest
• Kayaking in Luminescent Bay

✦ Saba

• Flying in & out

✦ Saint Barthelemy (St Barts)

• Sharing an ATV around the island

✦ St. Lucia

• Sulfur ponds
• Pitons

✦ St. Kitts

• Romney Manor
• Brimstone Fortress
• Nevis

✦ Saint Martin

• Ferry to Anguilla
• Grand Case restaurants

✦ St. Thomas

✦ St. Vincent

• Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary
• Montreal Gardens

✦ Tobago

• Tour with Peter Cox: Rain Forest / Argyle Waterfall / Adventure Humming and Nature Reserve

✦ Turks & Caicos

✦ American Samoa

• Pago Pago

✦ Australia

• Sydney
  • Climb Sydney Harbour Bridge
  • Manly Ferry – Beach to City
• Blue Mountains — Meat Pie
• Cairns
  • Snorkel Great Barrier Reef
  • Sky Rail & Kuranda Scenic Railroad
  • Daintree, Cape Tribulation and Mossman Gorge
• Ayers Rock (Uluru)
  • Field of Light
  • Segway around Uluru at Sunrise
• Kangaroo Island
  • Remarkable Rocks
  • Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary – for Koalas
• Tasmania — Cradle Mountain National Park
  • Hike to Marion's Lookout via Crater Lake and Dove Lake
  • Evening drive to find Wombat
  • Tasmanian Devil visit at Devils@Cradle
• Melbourne
  • Drive to 12 Apostles Rock Formation
  • Trams
  • Shrine of Remembrance
  • Queen Victoria Market
• Darwin — Jumping Crocodile Cruise

✦ Cook Islands

• Aitutaki Atoll
• Palmerston Atoll

✦ Fiji

• Snorkeling with Cruisin' Fiji
• Island from the film "Castaway"
• River Tubing on the Navua River
• Vava'u
• Levuka, Ovalau
• Vanua Balavu

✦ French Polynesia

• Tahiti — Papeete & Water Garden Vaipahi
• Moorea — Hilton Moorea Resort – Overwater Bungalow
• Bora Bora
  • Sail to Marlon Brando's atoll Tetiaroa
  • Snorkeling with Rays and Black Tipped Sharks
  • Tahaa, more Snorkeling with Rays and Black Tipped Sharks — Drift Snorkeling
• Austral Islands – Rurutu
• Marquesas Islands — Nuku Hiva

✦ Marshall Islands

• Majuro

✦ Niue Island

✦ New Caledonia

• Noumea — Michel Corbasson zoological and forest park

✦ New Zealand

• Auckland — West Coast Rainforest and Beaches (Karekare and Piha)
• Waitomo Ruakuri Cave & Glow Worms
• Wai-O-Tapu, Thermal Wonderland
• White Island Volcano via Helicopter
• Franz Joseph Glacier Valley Walk
• Queenstown
• Milford Sound via Bus, Cruise and Helicopter return

✦ Palau

• Rock Islands
• Jellyfish Lake
• Milky Way Lagoon
• Best snorkeling anywhere

✦ Papua New Guinea

• Port Moresby

✦ Pohnpei

• Ruins of Nan Madol
• Kepirohi Falls

✦ Saipan

• Grotto
• Banzai Cliff
• Suicide Cliff

✦ Solomon Islands

• Honiara
• Tenaru Falls

✦ Samoa

• Sua Ocean Trench
• Robert Louis Stevenson House

✦ Tonga

• Vava'u

✦ Vanuatu

• Life & Death tour of Chief Roi Mata

✦ Competitours 2019

✦ Competitours 2022

✦ Restaurants (In somewhat ranked order)

• Susan Dailey, Evening of Amuse-ment
• Gaggan (old & new location)
• Hotel Restaurant Schweizer Stuben, Chef Dieter Muller (Germany)
• Alinea, Chicago
• Le Chique, Puerto Morelos, Mexico
• Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Diver XO
• Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain
• Cenador de Amos
• Willows Inn, Lummi Island, Washington
• Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy
• minibar by Jose Andres (3 times)
• Tickets, Barcelona, Spain
• Maaemo, Oslo
• The Restaurant at Meadowood, New Year's Eve in the kitchen
• Inn at Little Washington
• Odette, Singapore
• The French Laundry (Two times)
• Veta Bistro, Santa Cruz, Chile, Chef Roberto Neira
• Attica, Melbourne, Australia
• The Grove, Auckland, New Zealand
• Pineapple & Pearls, Washington, DC
• Pierre Gagnaire, Paris, France (in the kitchen)
• Gustu, La Paz, Bolivia
• Atomix, NYC
• McCrady's, Charleston, SC
• Bohemia, St. Helier, Jersey (Channel Islands)
• Borago, Santiago, Chile
• Amisfield, Queenstown, New Zealand
• Burnt Ends, Singapore
• KOKS, Faroe Islands
• Steirereck, Vienna
• Eleven Madison Park, NYC
• Inakaya East, Tokyo, a robatayaki restaurant
• Cafe Berne
• Restaurant de l'Oustau de Baumaniere
• La Colombe, Cape Town
• ZooFari, National Zoo, Washington DC (Annual Event)

✦ Wine Touring (Actual wineries sometimes are too numerous to mention)

• Napa, California
• Sonoma, California
• Central Coast (Santa Barbara – Paso Robles), California
• Long Island, New York
• Finger Lakes, New York
• Willamette Valley, Oregon
• Niagara on the Lake, Ontario
• Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Northern Virginia
• Western Central Virginia
• Sardinia (Wine Resort Leda d'Ittiri)
• Macedonia (Popova Kula Winery)
• Colchagua Valley, Chile
• Stellenbosch and Franschhoek, South Africa
• Hermanus area, South Africa
• Penedes (Cava) — Cavas Codorniu
• Bordeaux — Right Bank: St Emilion, Pomerol
• Bordeaux — Left Bank: Sauternes, Pessac-Leognan, Medoc, Pauillac, Margaux, St Estephe, Graves
• Santorini
• Jersey – La Mare
• Wachau Valley, Austria
• Eger, Hungary
• Chisinau, Moldova (Cricova and Asconi)
• Mendoza, Argentina
• Casablanca, Chile
• Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
• Martinborough, New Zealand
• Marlborough, New Zealand
• Barossa Valley, Australia
• Amalfi – Marisa Cuomo
• DOCG Prosecco
• Sicily – Murgo
• Chardonne, Switzerland
• Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Tenuta Casali and Tre Monti)
• Rheingau, Germany
• Northland, New Zealand
• Cyprus
• Madrid
• Ribera del Duero
• Rioja – Marques de Riscal, Bai Gorri
• Douro River Valley, Quinta Nova Winery, Cockburns Port
• Alan de Val Winery Valdeorras, Galicia, Spain
• Chateau Belle-Vue — Baabda, Mt Lebanon
• Chateauneuf-du-Pape
• Chateau de Pommard
• Ruinart, Champagne
• Uruguay: Vina Eden, Bodega Stagnari
• Japan – Tokoname
• Walla Walla
• Loire Valley – Muscadet Sevre et Maine, Anjou-Saumur, Touraine, Vouvray, Sancerre

✦ Baseball, Basketball and Football Stadiums

• Metropolitan Stadium, Minneapolis
• Metrodome, Minneapolis
• U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis
• Fenway Park, Boston
• Nationals Park, Washington, DC
• Camden Yards, Baltimore
• Wrigley Field, Chicago
• Apartment roof top view of a Cubs game
• Yankee Stadium (old), New York
• SkyDome, Toronto
• Comiskey Park (new), Chicago
• Comerica Park, Detroit
• Milwaukee County Stadium, Braves and Brewers
• Fed Ex Field (Redskins)
• Madison Square Garden
• United Center (NBA Finals)
• Lambeau Field — Pro Shop / Hall of Fame
• Target Center, Minneapolis

✦ Events

• World Series game(s), cheering for the home team 1987 and 1991 — Eight games!
• Super Bowl (XXVI)
• NCAA Final 4 — Minneapolis 1992
• NBA All-Star game (Minneapolis, MN)
• US Open Tennis, 1997, 1998, 1999 — Women's Final, Serena's First Grand Slam win.
• Australian Open Tennis, Women's Final 2018
• Les Miserables in London 1988 (and New York, Washington, DC and…)
• Lena Horne, Broadway 1982
• Lion King, Broadway 1997
• Hamilton, Broadway 2019

✦ Cruises

• 09/1991: RCL Caribbean
• 01/1994: Renaissance, Seychelles
• 10/1995: Renaissance, Rome to Istanbul
• 07/1997: Renaissance, Baltics
• 08/2000: OAT, Yangtze
• 08/2004: MS Dalmacija, Adriatic
• 08/2005: Amadeus, MS Artistry Bucharest to Budapest
• 02/2006: M/V Galapagos Explorer II
• 05/2006: Oceania, Mediterranean
• 02/2007: Princess, Western Caribbean
• 06/2008: Carnival, Bahamas
• 11/2008: NCL, Western Mediterranean
• 12/2008: Voyages of Discovery, Antarctica
• 10/2009: NCL, Bahamas
• 05/2010: OAT, Galapagos
• 05/2011: Oceania, Adriatic
• 01/2012: Windstar, Panama Canal
• 11/2012: Windstar, Rome to Barcelona
• 12/2012: Voyages of Discovery, Eastern Caribbean
• 09/2014: NCL Alaska
• 10/2014: RCL Quebec City to Quebec City
• 11/2014: Oceania, Eastern Caribbean
• 01/2015: NCL Hawaii
• 08/2015: Oceania, Oslo to Stockholm
• 11/2015: Oceania, Lisbon to Cape Town
• 02/2016: Azamara, Costa Rica to LA
• 09/2016: Oceania Athens to Athens
• 12/2016: Azamara, Caribbean
• 02/2017: Oceania Amazon — Miami to Rio
• 05/2017: Viking River Cruise – Bucharest to Budapest
• 07/2018: Azamara Rome–Venice
• 02/2020: Oceania Auckland to Papeete
• 02/2022: Royal Caribbean – Coco Cay, Haiti and St Thomas
• 02/2023: Oceania – Cape Town to Mumbai, including Mozambique, Madagascar, Maldives
• 11/2023: Windstar – Hong Kong to Cairns, Australia
• 04/2024: Scenic Papeete to Fiji
• 01/2025: Celebrity Fort Lauderdale to Saint Maarten
• 03/2025: Oceania Santiago to Buenos Aires
• 05/2025: Oceania Tokyo to Bali (Back to Back cruises)
• 10/2025: Scenic River Cruise – Douro River Valley
• 02/2026: Oceania Western Caribbean

✦ Round the World Trips

• March 2016 United Ticket
• December 2017 American Ticket
• April 2019 Mainly SE Asia
• Feb/March 2020 — RTW / South Pacific Oceania Cruise
• Sept/Oct 2022 Japan, Mongolia, and Indonesia
• November/December 2023 Windstar Cruise
• May/June 2024 Crazy Crazy Crazy – N Pacific

As of March 19, 2026: 1,486 places