So today at work I was talking with a friend of mine about his honeymoon plans, and he kept naming off locations and I was like oh yeah that’s nice I went there a ways back, and at this point I realized holy crap I’ve been to a lot of places. So for the purpose of chronicling where I’ve been, I’ve decided to list where I have gone to in this entry. If you see this as bragging, quit being so uptight, this is blog is also something I like to look back on and I don’t have this information anywhere but my head, so it would be nice to have it written down
*************Early Years***************
Fort Wayne, IN where I spent the first 8ish Years of my life
Toledo, OH a brief stint during the first grade
Cottage Grove, MN Till I graduated From HS
Philadelphia Every summer from age 8 to 18
Israel 4th Grade Summer
Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and pretty much the rest of the Caribbean 5th Grade Summer
England and Central France 6th Grade Summer
Mazatlan, Mexico Spring Break 8th Grade
Arizona, pretty much all over, I think I only have been there 3 times
Chicago, probably 3 times
San Francisco all the way down to central Cali, 9th Grade summer
Muskegon, MI Summer of 8th grade but probably more than that
Every Beach in NJ it seems like
Upstate NY, with my brother in law to look at colleges
Pretty much every freaking State on the East Coast
****College Years*****
Terre Haute, Home of Rose-Hulman still live here
Pittsburgh, Summer of Freshman Year
Cedar Rapids, Current CoOp location
St Louis, Baseball game and random Visit to Carson
Fort Meyers Florida, Spring Break Freshman Year
Winnipeg, Canada Winter Break Sophomore Year
South Padre Island, TX Winter Break Junior Year
Fashion Institute, this counts as its own location, Quasi Spring Break Junior Year
All of FREAKING ITALY!!!! Christmas Break this year
*****Been to more times than I can count************
Lexington, KY Home of my Aunt Judy
Cleveland, Home of my Grandma
Miami, FL, average once a year since as far back as I remember
Washington D.C. Too many times to count usually for Passover, though once went to a wedding at the Ritz
New York City, Sister Lives right there
*****Places I’d like to go*************
China Summer 07 I hope
Seattle, WA
Colorado
Los Angeles, CA
Boundary Waters, MN
Australia and New Zealand
Amazon Rain Forest
I know I am forgetting stuff, but I figured this list is sufficient. I never realized how huge traveling to new locations was a part of my life until I wrote this down. I feel bad for the people who have never left their home state or the Midwest even; they are missing out on so much.