I acquired a love of maps from my brother the cartographer, so I got a kick out of this post at Walternatives.  It links to a website that allows you to map which countries and states you’ve visited.

Here’s my country map:

It’s a sad map.  I feel better about the map of states that I’ve visited:

Oh, how I yearn to visit Alaska and Hawai’i.

Speaking of my brother, he has a somewhat unusual ambition: he’s trying to visit as many U.S. counties as possible.  Fortunately for him, he lives in the state that has, by far and away, the most counties.  He (and I) also grew up in the state with the third most counties.