Travellers Century Club

[MarillionFan]

So I was thinking of travelling to Easter Island when I was in San Diego next month & was checking out flights, only discover my geography is crap and it was at least 13 hours to Santiago, before another 5 1/2 hours to Easter Island. Needless that isn't happening over the weekend.

In the meantime, I came across the TCC. This is a club in the US, that you can enter if you have travelled '100' countries. Destinations are based on the list of 324 'countries', where countries are considered Unique destinations.

Countries & Territories | The Travelers' Century Club

I thought I was quite well travelled (as was the missus) we both managed a meagre 35 'countries' each, both different. Hers 'Cook Islands', mine 'San Marino' as the most obscure. Obviously not.

Scores on the doors, ladies & gentlemen?

[TheCoconutDog]

61

[jamesbrown]

Only 28, fewer that I thought (I'm 37). A large fraction of those are European countries, some I've done to death with road trips, others I've lived in, and most I've hardly touched. At some point, I'll take a motorcycle trip around South America, which will add quite a few, but who's counting?

[mudskipper]

I ran out of fingers and toes - around 30ish I think, fewer than I thought. I've never been to North America.

So how many countries have you geocached in?

I've got 12 little flags on my stats page

Most northerly cache - Iceland
Most Westerly - Peru
Most Southernly - Oz
Most Easterly - also Oz

[mudskipper]

61

Wow, that's going some!

[TheCoconutDog]

Travellers Century Club

Wow, that's going some!

You can visit some obscure places for just a couple of hours on a cruise holiday

[barrydidit]

You can visit some obscure places for just a couple of hours on a cruise holiday

In that case i'm having the transit destinations on the way to see Bob.

That makes about 15 I think. Annoyingly, having been to Yugoslavia, that would count as 3 nowadays

[mudskipper]

In that case i'm having the transit destinations on the way to see Bob.

That makes about 15 I think. Annoyingly, having been to Yugoslavia, that would count as 3 nowadays

I counted it as one - although I have to confess as to not being entirely sure where the bit I visited ended up.

Edit: Google tells me it's Croatia

[GlenW]

45 ish, but I was lucky and got Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Slovenia after the break-up of Yugoslavia. I didn't count Wales and Scotland, more out of disdain than any geo-political ideas.

[expat]

45 ish, but I was lucky and got Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Slovenia after the break-up of Yugoslavia. I didn't count Wales and Scotland, more out of disdain than any geo-political ideas.

67, but I don't count it if I never got out of the airport; I count countries not nations (the UK is 1 country so I don't count Wales or Scotland or England); I don't count any country more than once (taking the Bosporus ferry from Istanbul to Haydarpasa doesn't score a new country; nor does visiting San Andres, because it is part of Colombia); and I figure if I now count more than 1 for countries that have since split, like Yugoslavia and Sudan, then I don't get to count 2 for Germany.