A few days ago film critic Thelma Adams posted a long list of destinations. She said to put YES next to any place you’ve been. The average is 8, she said. Thelma has visited 56. I’ve visited 98 or 99, and I will never, ever visit Dubai. And honestly? At this stage in my life I’m not putting a lot of faith in the idea of visiting Alaska.
Here’s my incomplete rundown, which omits a few cities, towns and regions:
Abu Dhabi
Acapulco
Amsterdam — YES
Alaska
Angola
Antigua
Arcos de la Frontera, Spain — YES
Arizona — YES
Aruba
Athens, Greece
Atlanta — YES
Austria – YES
Australia
Azores
The Bahamas
Bali
Barbados
Barcelona — YES
Bahrain
Belgium — YES
Belize — YES
Bermuda
Berlin — YES
Bern, Switzerland — YES
Borneo
Boston — YES (lived there!)
Bordeaux, France — YES
Buenos Aires, Argentina — YES
Bulgaria
Burma
Brazil
B.V.I.
Cabo San Lucas
Cambodia
Canada — YES
Cancun — YES (unfortunately)
Cannes — YES
Cape Town
Cape Verde
Casablanca, Morocco — YES
Cayman Island
Chicago — YES
China
Cinque Terre — YES
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italian Alps — YES
Costa Rica
Capri
Colombia
Connecticut — YES (lived there in my late teens, early 20s)
Corfu
Cozumel
Croatia — YES
Cook Islands
Copenhagen
Costa Blanca
Crete
Croatia — YES
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic — YES
Dallas — YES
Denmark — YES
Denver — YES
Dominican Republic
Dubai — (never!)
Ecuador
Egypt
Elba, Italy (Marina di Campo) — YES!
England – YES
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fez, Morocco — YES
Fiji
Finland
Florence — YES
Florida — YES
France – YES
Fujairah
Galapagos Island
Gambia
Gibraltar — YES
Germany — YES
Ghana
Gran Canaria
Grand Canyon — YES
Grand Cayman
Greek Island
Guam
Hanoi — YES
Hawaii — YES
Halkidiki
Holland — YES
Hong Kong
Hungary
Ibiza
Iceland — YES
India
Indonesia
Ireland — YES
Israel
Iraq
Isle of Man
Isle of Wight
Italy – YES
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan — YES
Kansas — YES (Emporia)
Key West, Florida — YES
Kiev
Kenya
Kefalonia
South Korea — YES
Kos
Krabi
Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait
Lanzarote
Las Vegas — YES
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland — YES
Liechtenstein — YES
Lithuania
Lesotho
Letlan
London – YES
Los Angeles — YES
Luxembourg — YES
Macao
Maldives
Malaysia
Malta
Majorca
Madeira
Maine — YES
Marrakesh, Morocco — YES
Massachusetts — YES
Mauritius
Memphis — YES
Menorca
Mexico – YES
Milan — YES
Minneapolis — YES
Monaco — YES
Montana — YES
Morocco — YES
Munich — YES
Murano
Musca
Naples — YES
Nashville — YES
New Orleans — YES
New York — YES
New Zealand
Nice — YES
Northern Ireland — YES
Norway
Oklahoma — YES
Oman
Odessa
Panama
Paris — YES (many times)
Peru
Philadelphia — YES
Philippines
Pisa — YES
Poland
Portland — YES
Portugal
Positano, Italy — YES
Prague — YES (many times)
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Rhode Island — YES
Riga
Roatan
Honduras
Rome — YES
Romania
Russia
San Diego — YES
San Francisco — YES
San Juan
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Santorini
Saudi Arabia
Savannah, Georgia (5 or 6 times)
Scilly Isles
Scotland — YES
Seattle – YES
Sicily — YES
Singapore
South Africa
Spain — YES
Slovenia — YES
Slovakia — YES
St. John
St. Louis — YES
Sri Lanka
St Kitts
St Lucia
St Maarten
St. Petersburg
St Thomas
Switzerland – YES
Sweden — YES
Tahiti
Taiwan
Tanzania
Telluride — YES
Tenerife
Texas — YES (Austin, Dallas, Houston, Galveston)
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Togo
Toronto — YES (many times)
Tunisia
Turkey
Turks and Caicos
Tuscany — YES
Yerevan
Vatican City – YES
Venice – YES
Vermont – YES
Vietnam — YES (3 times)
Wales
Washington — YES
Washington DC — YES
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
