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Where We’ve Been

We’d be lying if we said we weren’t country counters. I know, I know. It’s about the travel experiences, not the number of countries you step on. We agree with this mindset wholeheartedly.

HOWEVER, we have a goal to visit 100 countries by the time we turn 50 years old.

It’s a big goal. We are not nomadic. We have a home and careers that require us to be in Vancouver.

To achieve this lofty goal, we need to visit 3-4 NEW countries each year. We’re up for this challenge!

Most people use the United Nations members to measure the number of countries in the world. Currently there are 193 sovereign states that are members of the United Nations (here’s the list).

We’ve visited 66 of these nations (as of May 2022).

However, we prefer to use the Travelers’ Century Club (TCC) as our main list for countries and territories. There are a total of 330 countries and territories on this list, as of January 20202.

We’ve visited 81 countries and territories on the TCC list.

We’ve had heated debates over the validity of this list, versus the United Nations list. Our argument is that the United Nations list excludes many independent nations and regions.

For example, Easter Island is technically a part of Chile, but if you travel to Easter Island should this not be considered a separate region? How about the Galapagos Islands?

Another example are the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. The UN classifies these islands as part of the Kingdom of Netherlands, not independent nations. But if you visit Curacao in the Caribbean, can you say you’ve visited the Netherlands, which is actually in Europe?

What about Greenland or Scotland or Northern Ireland or Hong Kong or Taiwan or Tibet? None of these destinations are part of the United Nations list – but, as a traveler, you’d consider these new countries visited, wouldn’t you?

Canoe at Moraine Lake

Canadian Provinces & Territories we’ve visited

We have a goal to visit every province in Canada. We’ve only visited 7 provinces and 0 territories. Bad Canadians!

  1. British Columbia
  2. Alberta
  3. Ontario
  4. Manitoba
  5. New Brunswick
  6. Nova Scotia
  7. Quebec

European countries we’ve visited

We have a goal to visit every country in Europe. Here’s our current list of countries visited in Europe:

  1. Austria
  2. Belgium
  3. Bulgaria
  4. Croatia
  5. Czech Republic
  6. England
  7. France
  8. Germany
  9. Hungary
  10. Ireland
  11. Italy
  12. Liechtenstein
  13. Luxembourg
  14. Monaco
  15. Greece
  16. The Netherlands
  17. Northern Ireland
  18. Portugal
  19. Romania
  20. Scotland
  21. Slovenia
  22. Spain
  23. Switzerland
  24. Turkey

American States We’ve Visited

We have a goal to visit every state in the United States. Currently, we’ve visited 23 of the 50 states.

  1. Alaska
  2. Arizona
  3. California
  4. Colorado
  5. Florida
  6. Georgia
  7. Hawaii
  8. Illinois
  9. Kentucky
  10. Maine
  11. Massachusetts
  12. Michigan
  13. Nevada
  14. New Jersey
  15. New York
  16. North Carolina
  17. Oregon
  18. Pennsylvania
  19. South Carolina
  20. Tennessee
  21. Texas
  22. Washington
  23. Washington DC

USA National Parks We’ve Visited

We have a goal to visit the 60 National Parks in the United States. We’ve got a lot of work to do if we’re going to hit this goal!

  1. Joshua Tree National Park
  2. Haleakala National Park
  3. Great Smoky Mountains
  4. Virgin Islands
  5. North Cascades National Park 

Caribbean Nations We’ve Visited

We have a goal to visit every nation in the Caribbean. It would be extremely difficult to visit every island in the Caribbean (there are thousands!), so we’ve set our goal to visit an island in each Caribbean nation.

Currently, the Caribbean islands we have visited are:

  1. Aruba
  2. Barbados
  3. Bahamas
  4. Curacao
  5. Dominican Republic
  6. US Virgin Islands (St Thomas & St John)
  7. Puerto Rico
  8. St. Lucia
  9. St. Kitts & Nevis
  10. Sint Maarten / Saint Martin
  11. Cayman Islands

Hawaiian Islands We’ve Visited

We have a goal to visit all of the Hawaiian Islands.

  1. Maui
  2. Molokai
  3. Oahu

Ski Resorts in British Columbia We’ve Visited

Read more – My quest to visit every ski resort in British Columbia

UNESCO World Heritage Sites We’ve Visited

Read more – Our list of visited World Heritage Sites

 

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