Out of the way

If you're a geek, looking at the URI of the image is enough to figure out what's going on, but otherwise you can go to the create your own visited countries map place and just click on the buttons, like I did.

I saw this when I was looking at SPZ's blog and decided to make my own map. Once upon a time I had some neat SVG stuff that did something like this. I should dig it out and make a widget or something out of it.

I know a bunch of people who, like me "collect countries". That is, they try to go to as many countries as they can. There is no really good reason for it I suppose, although if you learn something new in each place it's a good thing. Anyway, I measure it by dividing the number of countries I have been to by my age. The brings me to about 1.1 or so - I visited colonial Hong Kong which is now even wierder than it was before in status, but isn't recorded on the map.

But then, I am hardly obsessive about it. (Hey!! Where are my little red spots for Vanuatu? ) I have actually spent longer on Singaporean and Thai territory than in Poland, for example. But I never went out past customs in either case - the time is made up of lots of stops waiting to change aircraft.

There are a lot of places I would like to go to, as well. But life is finite, and I have a job to do...