This map keeps track of all places in the world that members of our family (be it as a family, or individually) visited during our lifetimes. Clicking on a marker will bring you to the respective country list of all available guides and individual visited cities, towns, villages, or sometimes standalone points of interest.
These markers denote places in the listings where no sightseeing occurred:
Overnight stop on a road trip
Pass-through drive with minimal stops
Resort stay
Skiing resort visit or stay
Camping stay
Additionally,
denotes a few places that we then or now called home.
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bermuda
Bosnia
notes on Mostar and Stolac
Mostar |
Stolac with Stecci sites |
Canada
Costa Rica
combined Costa Rica notes
Arenal (La Fortuna) |
Manuel Antonio (Quepos) |
San Jose |
China
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
combined Copenhagen and Beyond notes
Copenhagen |
Helsingor |
Roskilde |
Dominican Republic
La Romana  |
Puerto Plata  |
Punta Cana  |
France
Georgia
Abkhasia (Gagry (Гагры) – Gudauta (Гудаута) – Lake Ritza (Рица) – New Athos (Новый Афон) – Pitsunda (Пицунда)) |
Batumi (Батуми) |
Sukhumi (Сухуми) |
Germany
Greece
Athens (Αθήνα) |
Central Greece (Delphi (Δελφοί) – Galaxidi (Γαλαξίδι) – Hosios Loukas (Οσίου Λουκά)) |
Crete (Agia Pelagia (Αγία Πελαγία) – Faistos (Φαιστός) – Heraklion (Ηράκλειο) – Hersonissos (Χερσόνησος) – Knossos (Κνωσός) – Kourtaliotiko (Κουρταλιώτη) – Matala (Μάταλα) – Pantanassa (Παντάνασσα) – Preveli (Πρέβελη) – Psychro (Ψυχρό) – Spili (Σπήλι)) |
Delos (Δήλος) |
Mykonos (Μύκονος) |
Naxos (Apiranthos (Απείραθος) – Chalkio (Χαλκείο) – Naxos (Νάξος) incl Koufonisia (Κουφονήσια)) |
Peloponnese (Mycenae (Μυκήνες) – Nafplion (Ναύπλιο)) |
Santorini (Akrotiri (Ακρωτήρι) – Fira (Φηρά) – Imerovogli (Ημεροβίγλι) – Oia (Οία) – Pyrgos (Πύργος)) |
Hungary
Iceland
India
Ireland
combined Dublin and Beyond notes
Bru na Boinne |
Dublin with Howth and Malahide |
Glendalough |
Israel
Italy
Jordan
combined Southern Jordan notes
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Mexico
Cancun |
Chichen-Itza |
Cozumel |
Playa del Carmen |
Moldova
Beltsy (Bălţi) |
Kishinev (Chişinău) |
Tiraspol |
Yedintsy (Edineţ) |
Monaco
Montenegro
Budva |
Kotor (with Herzeg Novi and Kotor Bay) |
Perast |
Petrovaç |
Tivat |
Netherlands
Norway
Palestine
Panama
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
San Juan (with various locations in Puerto Rico) |
Russia
Anapa (Анапа)  |
Azov (Азов)  |
Bataysk (Батайск) |
Cheboksary (Чебоксары) |
Cherkessk (Черкесск) |
Dagestan mountains |
Derbent (Дербент) |
Eysk (Ейск) |
Gelendzhik (Геленджик)  |
Kazan' (Казань) |
Kislovodsk (Кисловодск) |
Kostroma (Кострома) |
Limanchik/Abrau-Durso (Лиманчик/Абрау-Дюрсо) |
Makhachkala (Махачкала) |
Mineral'nye Vody (Минеральные Воды)  |
Moskva (Москва) |
Nal'chik (Нальчик)  |
Nizhniy Novgorod (Нижний Новгород) |
Novocherkassk (Новочеркасск) (with smaller villages in Rostov Oblast) |
Novorossiysk (Новороссийск) |
Novoshakhtinsk (Новошахтинск) |
Pavlovsk (Павловск) |
Peterhof (Петергоф) |
Petrozavodsk (Петрозаводск) (with Karelliya) |
Pushkin (Пушкин) |
Pyatigorsk (Пятигорск) |
Rostov-na-Donu (Ростов-на-Дону)  |
Samara (Самара) |
Sankt-Peterburg (Санкт-Петербург) |
Saratov (Саратов) |
Sergiyev Posad (Сергиев Посад) (with Moscow Oblast) |
Shakhty (Шахты) |
Sochi (Сочи) (with "Greater" Sochi) |
Taganrog (Таганрог) |
Tuapse (Туапсе) |
Uglich (Углич) |
Ulyanovsk (Ульяновск) |
Volgograd (Волгоград) |
Yaroslavl' (Ярославль) |
San Marino
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
combined Zurich and Beyond notes
Bern |
Fribourg |
Geneva (Genève) (with Nyon) |
Lausanne |
Lake Maggiore (Ascona – Locarno) |
Lugano |
Lucerne (Luzern) |
Solothurn |
Villars-sur-Ollon |
Zurich (Zürich) |
Türkiye
Ukraine
Alupka (Алупка) |
Alushta (Алушта) |
Cernivtsi (Чернiвцi) |
Donetsk (Донецьк) |
Feodosiia (Феодосiя) |
Kharkiv (Харкiв) |
Kherson (Херсон) |
Kyiv (Киïв) |
Lviv (Львiв) |
Mohyliv-Podil's'kyi (Могилiв-Подiльський) |
Odessa (Одеса) |
Sevastopol' (Севастополь) |
Vinnytsia Oblast |
Yalta (Ялта) |
Zaporizhzhia (Запорiжжя) |
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Alabama
California
Anaheim (Disneyland Resorts) |
Camarillo |
Cambria |
Carmel-by-the-Sea |
Concord |
Hearst Castle |
Los Angeles |
Malibu (with LA northern "exurbs") |
Manhattan Beach |
Mountain View |
Napa Valley |
Palm Desert |
Rancho Mirage |
San Diego (with Coronado Beach – La Jolla – Solana Beach) |
San Francisco (with Sausalito and Muir Woods) |
Santa Barbara |
Solvang |
Sonoma Valley |
Connecticut
Hartford |
Mystic (Seaport and Aquarium) |
New Haven |
Stamford |
Delaware
 |
Newark |
Florida
Daytona Beach |
New Smyrna Beach |
Orlando |
Titusville (Kennedy Space Center) |
St Petersburg |
Georgia
Illinois
Chicago |
Chicago northern suburbs (Glenview – Northbrook – Skokie – Wilmette) |
Indiana
Louisiana
Maine
combined Coastal Maine notes
Bath |
Boothbay Harbor |
Camden |
Castine |
Kennebunkport |
Mount Desert Island (Acadia NP – Bar Harbor – Somesville – Southwest Harbor) |
Ogunquit |
Portland |
Rockland |
Wiscasset |
York |
Maryland
Massachusetts
Amherst |
Boston |
Cape Cod (Hyannis – Mashpee – Provincetown) |
Martha's Vineyard |
Northampton |
Michigan
East Lansing (with Lansing) |
Mississippi
Gulf coastal drive  |
Nevada
New Hampshire
Dover |
Durham |
Merrimack County |
New Jersey
Atlantic City |
Central Coastal New Jersey (Cranbury – East Brunswick – Edison – Freehold – Hazlet – Holmdel – Jackson – Keansburg – Long Branch – Manalapan – Manasquan – Marlboro – Matawan – Monroe – New Brunswick – Old Bridge – Point Pleasant – Red Bank – Sandy Hook – South Amboy – Wall – Woodbridge) |
Northern New Jersey (Elizabeth – Fair Lawn – Jersey City – Hoboken – Paramus – Rahway – Teaneck – Wayne) |
Lambertville |
Princeton |
Sparta |
New York
Albany  |
Catskill Mountains   |
Ithaca |
Long Island (Farmingdale – Great Neck) |
Lower Upstate (Monsey – New City – White Plains) |
New York City (all boroughs)  |
Niagara Falls (incl. Canadian side) |
Poughkeepsie |
Rochester |
Schroon Lake  |
North Carolina
Chapel Hill |
Charlotte |
Lake Norman |
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg  |
Doylestown |
Lancaster (with Amish Country) |
Longwood Gardens |
Philadelphia |
Pittsburgh |
Pocono Mountains |
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Vermont
Ascutney Mountain  |
Peru  |
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel |
Herndon (DC suburbs) |
Natural Bridge |
Shenandoah NP |
Virginia Beach |
Williamsburg |
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
District of Columbia