Around the world I’ve searched for you…

Have you seen Revanche’s latest over at A Gai Shan Life? She’s found a very fun tool, following in the tracks of Fabulously Broke, Asian Pear, Financial Catastrophizer and Shelley. It’s a gadget that lets you visualize where you’ve been, either in the world or in the United States.

Hm. When you’ve been around since the Cretaceous and spent part of geological time overseas, you could turn a fair amount of a map red. Let’s check it out.

Here’s where this dinosaur has been in the world:

Create your own map of the world…

And here’s where I’ve been in the United States:

Create your own map of the United States…

Well. In spite of all that gallivanting, I’ve only visited 9.77% of the world and 50% of the U.S. Unfortunately the site doesn’t offer maps of Wonderland or Oz, no part of which I seem to have missed…

Each of our blogging friends asks where we would like to go after this. The strange thing is, I feel almost no desire to travel anymore. I guess people are supposed to want to spend their retirement bouncing around the world. Even if I could afford it, I’m pretty much done with my expeditions. To my mind, traveling is a lot of work—crowded, inconvenient, occasionally scary, and these days very invasive of your privacy. It’s interesting to have seen all those places (I guess), but in fact I live in a place where everybody else wants to visit. Why go galloping around when you already live in a destination?

I’d like to go back to New Mexico. I adore Santa Fe and the whole area around there. And I think I’d like to explore the south of France. But the rest of it? meh!

Too bad that YouTube video was recorded off someone’s scratchy vinyl. Here’s a much prettier digital recording.

Where do you want to spend your next eighty days?

🙂