Robert says these should all be places that we've actually visited, as
opposed to "landed in airport" stops only. But I counted the airport
stops anyway. (Makes the country list more interesting, below...)
| What | Robert | Liza |
|
| US States +
District of Columbia |
37 |
39 |
|
| US
Possessions/Territories |
0 |
0 |
|
| Countries |
42 |
31 |
| State |
Flag |
Robert |
Liza |
| Alabama |
 |
Huntsville...Redstone Arsenal,
for a class for work, 2008 or 2009. Huntsville was a very nice
city. |
|
| Alaska |
 |
1989, big trip to Anchorage,
Kodiak Island, Kenai Peninsula, took the train up to Denali National
Park, flightseeing hour to see Mt McKinley...trip marred a bit by the
fact that the Exxon Valdez had pre-disastered Prince William Sound and
our accommodations on Kodiak Island were conveniently "lost". |
Ditto, see Robert. |
| Arizona |
 |
Our home since 2001, what can we
say? |
Ditto. |
| Arkansas |
 |
Visited with Liza several
times... |
Liza's mom's home. First
trip too little to remember, periodic trips thereafter every five years
or so...we even own some property there now. |
| California |
|
Where we are both from!
Born in the Queen of Angels hospital in LA, then lived in the Baldwin
Hills, Encino, USC area, San Pedro, then Agoura Hills until moving to
Arizona in 2001. |
Where we are both from!
Born in Hawthorne, lived in San Pedro, went to USC, then lived in San
Pedro again, then Agoura Hills, until we moved to Arizona in 2001. |
| Colorado |
 |
Robert went cycling with Liza up
in Summit County in 2004. |
Liza went to a USENIX conference
in Colorado Springs sometime in the 1980s; then a bike camp based in
Frisco, Summit County, with Connie Carpenter and Davis Phinney, in
1997. |
| Connecticut |
|
Flew to New Haven, visited a
guy at Yale when working at USC on the User Friendly Operating System
(UFOS) project. |
|
| Delaware |
 |
|
Rehoboth Beach! Liza went
with
cousins Bob and Pam when she was, oh, 18-19, and Pam was expecting
their first son Chris. |
| District of Columbia |
 |
RAND! | RAND! First visit though much earlier when we went to visit the Deichmeisters. |
| Florida |
 |
Stopped in southern Florida on a
return from Venezuela, en route to New York. Had a steamy day in
the Everglades. Since returned to an Oracle conference in Daytona
Beach, which was more fun than we thought it would be. |
Ditto. Liza was also in
Tampa/St Petersburg area in 2010 for work. |
| Georgia |
 |
Flew to Savannah via Atlanta to
attend a conference at Hilton Head Island, SC (drove from airport). |
Flew through Atlanta on a work
trip June 2010. Didn't get out of the airport, didn't buy
anything, so not counting. |
| Hawaii |
 |
Love that Big Island. Also
did a second trip where we went to Oahu to see Pearl Harbor, the
Arizona memorial, etc. |
Ditto. |
| Idaho |
 |
Hit this one on a driving trip
up through Yellowstone and then over to Oregon. Famous
potatoes. :-) |
Ditto. |
| Illinois |
 |
Robert to a USC-ND football game
with Liza. |
Chicago, Chicago...Liza went
here first with the USC marching band on a Notre Dame trip.
Remembers Lake Michigan being very cold and gray. |
| Indiana |
 |
Notre Dame! |
Notre Dame! |
| Iowa |
 |
|
|
| Kansas |
 |
|
Newton, Kansas, train station,
dead of night, tumbleweed. Need I say more? |
| Kentucky |
 |
|
|
| Louisiana |
 |
New Orleans, pre-hurricane Katrina. Inadvertently wound up there during a jazz festival one year. | Ditto. |
| Maine |
 |
Leaf-peeper trip in the late
1980s. |
Ditto. |
| Maryland |
 |
Trip to the Puzzle Palace, er,
Fort Meade. Stayed in Laurel, MD. |
Popped into MD once on a RAND trip - went to see Robert Rzepka. Went to Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) for work, August 2010. |
| Massachusetts |
 |
Leaf-peeper trip in the late
1980s. |
Ditto. Liza also went to
Boston for a work training session once (to Epoch, in
Westborough). Wondered why everyone was dressed funny in Boston
until she figured out it was Patriot's Day, a state holiday. |
| Michigan |
 |
|
|
| Minnesota |
 |
|
Flew through Minneapolis en
route from DC to Ft Lewis on a work trip, June 2010. Got outside
the terminal! I bought a magnet in the airport! Does that
count? :-) |
| Mississippi |
|
Drove through the state en route
to Louisiana once, hitting Jackson, inconveniently enough the day of
the Rodney King riots in LA, mid-1980s. |
Ditto. |
| Missouri |
 |
|
|
| Montana |
 |
Yellowstone trip in 1989. |
Ditto. |
| Nebraska |
 |
|
|
| Nevada |
 |
Las Vegas, Reno.
Ugh. Drove through en route to ski venues and Zion, Bryce in Utah. |
Ditto. |
| New Hampshire |
 |
Leaf-peeper trip. |
Ditto. |
| New Jersey |
|
Robert went to Rod's wedding at
Princeton. |
Liza flew into Newark then drove
on to Ft Monmouth for work a few times, 2004-2010. |
| New Mexico |
|
Our neighboring state now.
Visited Santa Fe once at Thanksgiving; couple of driving trips through
Albuquerque (en route to Arkansas), up to Canyon de Chelly, etc.
Silver City, too! |
Ditto. |
| New York |
 |
Does landing at Kennedy Airport
count? Robert went here I'm sure when in NJ for his brother's
wedding. We were also here in 1998 with the Mansfield Chamber
Singers concert at Carnegie Hall. |
Kennedy Airport stop on return
from our honeymoon, most aggravating (there's a reason PanAm went out
of business). The Mansfield trip in 1998, too. |
| North Carolina |
 |
Robert went to the Research
Triangle in the early 1980's for a University Study Conference. |
Liza visited Ft Bragg in June
2010 for work. |
| North Dakota |
|
|
|
| Ohio |
 |
An eye-ball freezing trip in
2009, for a RAND business trip re: aging studies. |
Wright-Patterson AFB for
training. |
| Oklahoma |
 |
Clinton, OK - where we were
asked by an earnest woman in a motel if we wanted the room that Elvis
had slept in. |
Ditto. |
| Oregon |
 |
Lovely Pacific Northwest, first
visited for Pac-10 football, and our friends Tom & Diane Mosher
live in Salem. |
Ditto. |
| Pennsylvania |
|
Robert visited his brother in
college in Philadelphia; the two of us hit this on our leaf-peeper
trip, and on a VBT cycling trip in Lancaster County in the 1990s. |
Leaf-peeper and cycling
trip. Remember
also that we happened to be visiting Independence Hall on Constitution
Day - another state holiday Arizona and California don't have. |
| Rhode Island |
|
Robert went to the Naval War
College once for work, in Newport. |
|
| South Carolina |
 |
Hilton Head Island for
conference on expert systems. |
|
| South Dakota |
|
|
|
| Tennessee |
 |
|
"Watcha all wanna driiiiiink?"
at Earl's Hot Biscuits, driving with Jackie to Virginia when Lee was,
oh, 18 months old? |
| Texas |
 |
Many flights through DFW.
Big tour on a driving trip (when we also visited Arkansas) in 1986,
gulf coast fun...including mosquitoes, spilled cans of coke in the car,
etc. |
Ditto. Liza was also here
several times growing up, as godparents Lindsey and Jackie lived in
Mesquite, a Dallas suburb. Her employer for a few years,
Collective Technologies, was based in Bee Cave, outside Austin. |
| Utah |
 |
Greatest snow on earth!
Couple of ski trips. Also trips to Zion and Bryce Canyons, and
Cedar Breaks. |
Ditto on the skiing, except Liza
is a lousy
skier. She did like Park City though. |
| Vermont |
 |
Leaf-peeper trip |
Ditto |
| Virginia |
 |
Can't go to DC without going to
VA. Also Langley, Fort AP Hill, and Fort Monroe; Newport News and
colonial Williamsburg. |
Liza's aunt Maureen and
her family lived in Alexandria, Annandale, Arlington, etc. A lot
of As. She's also visited Ft Belvoir and Ft Lee, Charlottesville,
and colonial Williamsburg. |
| Washington |
|
Pacific Northwest...Hoh Rain
Forest...Pac-10 football...etc. |
Ditto. |
| West Virginia |
 |
|
|
| Wisconsin |
 |
|
Liza got this one in, what, 2008
or 2009, visiting to attend Chris Deichmeister's wedding reception. |
| Wyoming |
 |
Yellowstone trip. |
Ditto. |
| Territory |
Flag |
Robert |
Liza |
| American Samoa |
 |
|
|
| Guam |
|
|
|
| Northern Mariana Islands |
|
|
|
| Puerto Rico |
|
||
| US Virgin Islands |
|
In alphabetical order...and not an exhaustive list, only where at
least one of has been or expect to go soon. The problem here is
that (like a birding
list) some countries have split apart and others have joined. Germany
only gets counted once, despite Robert having been to both East and
West. Yugoslavia split apart, so should Robert get credit for what are
now separate countries? :-) Too bad we can't count the pieces of the
United Kingdom separately. Robert gets credit for Yugoslavia
separate from Croatia and Bosnia because he went there when it was
still an intact country; if we get to Serbia and Slovenia we'll
deprecate that entry.
| Country |
Flag |
Robert |
Liza |
| Australia |
|
Twice - southeast (Sydney,
Melbourne, Canberra) in 1994, and northeast (Far North Queensland) in
1996. |
Ditto |
| Austria |
|
Went here on our honeymoon in
Jan 1984. Back to Vienna in 1998 with the Mansfield Chamber
Singers. He had probably been here before meeting Liza, too. |
Ditto. |
| Belize |
 |
Birding trip with Victor Emanuel
Nature Tours one Christmas. |
Ditto. |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina |
 |
2010, when visiting
Croatia. Also when it was part of Yugoslavia in 1976 with Russ
Wiles. |
2010, when visiting Croatia. |
| Brazil |
 |
With VENT (Andrew Whitaker,
Steve Hilty), in the Pantanal; also visited Robert's cousin Bettina
outside Sao Paulo. |
Ditto. |
| Canada |
 |
British Columbia for skiing,
cycling. |
Ditto. |
| Costa Rica |
|
First trip to the tropics!
In 1991 with Olga Clarke. |
Ditto. |
| Croatia |
|
2010, cycling trip plus a week
on our own mostly in Dubrovnik, awesome. Returned in spring 2011 for
a birding trip along the coast plus a few more days on Brač. Also when it was part of
Yugoslavia in 1976 with Russ Wiles. |
Ditto. |
| Czech Republic |
 |
Prague...lovely. Robert
was also here when it was Czechoslovakia. |
Prague...Karlovy Vary...lovely.
With Robert on our Berlin trip, also with Mansfield Chamber Singers. |
| Denmark |
|
1976 when he was going up to
Norway, too. |
|
| Ecuador |
|
With VENT, in the lowlands (Rio
Tiputini); big adventure getting out of Quito. Northwest in September
2010 with Mark Pretti; southern Ecuador with Mark Pretti in Oct 2011. Quito airport much improved! |
Ditto. |
| Egypt |
 |
Robert in 1978. |
|
| France |
 |
Robert was here before meeting
Liza? We also went on three occasions to see some bit of the Tour
de France - a time trial in St Etienne, and two last days in Paris
(Lance's third and fifth wins, 2001 and 2003). |
Tour de France! |
| Germany |
|
Where Robert's dad came
from. Lived there about a year after getting his bachelor's
degree. Honeymoon in 1983-84, a number of trips since. He
had East Germany when it was a separate country. |
Honeymoon first, number of trips
since then. |
| Greece |
 |
School trip in 1973. |
|
| Guatemala |
|
Probably an airport stop in
Guatemala City doesn't really count...en route to Costa Rica. |
Ditto. |
| Honduras |
|
Probably an airport stop in San
Pedro Sula doesn't really count...en route to Costa Rica. Do
remember that the sign on the terminal building with the name of the
airport was bigger than the building...Generallissimo
something-or-other aeropuerto internactional de... |
Ditto. |
| Hungary |
|
Robert had been here
before...also part of our Berlin trip in 1991, went to Budapest and
Hortobagy National Park. |
Ditto on 1991.
Indecipherable
language. :-) Rickety and ugly mustard-colored Fiat that
rattled over the cobblestones in Budapest. Non-stop parking, too! |
| India |
 |
VENT trip with Victor Emanuel,
Peter English, et al. Awesome trip, "Palace on Wheels". |
Ditto. |
| Ireland |
|
Robert went before meeting Liza. |
|
| Iran |
 |
Robert in 1978. |
|
| Italy |
 |
Robert went here before meeting
Liza. Cycling trip in Tuscany in 1998(?), returned in 2008 for
his cousin Renate's wedding. Also a stopover in Rome en route to
Kenya. |
Cycling trip, wedding, stopover
in Rome. |
| Jamaica |
|
VENT trip. |
Ditto. Glad we did this
when we did - country is somewhat unstable... |
| Japan |
 |
Robert went with his dad one
year when his dad was attending a physics conference, 1970 or 1971. |
|
| Kenya |
 |
With LA Audubon in 1996. |
Ditto. |
| Korea, Republic of (aka South Korea) |
 |
|
Work trip to Seoul - 403rd AFSB
Far East regional offices at USAG Yongsan / K-16, Aug/Sept 2010. |
| Mexico |
 |
Our closest neighbor. A
number of trips here for birding - Sonora, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Chihuahua,
Sinaloa, Nayarit. Also
a nice few days in Mexico City. |
Ditto. |
| New Zealand |
 |
VBT cycling trip of south
island, December 2011. Flew into Auckland then onto Christchurch,
sadly hammered by earthquake in Sept 2010 and Feb 2011. Cycled
the west coast mostly and flew out of Queenstown, the adventure capital
(no kidding) of the world! Woo hoo! No bungy for us, but we
did "luge". |
Ditto. |
| Norway |
 |
Yup. Narvik, ferry
stories, Oslo, Bergen. 1976. |
|
| Panama |
 |
VENT trip in 2005. Canopy
Tower - fun! |
Ditto. |
| Peru |
 |
A birding tour offered through
ABA that included Machu Picchu. |
Ditto. |
| Poland |
 |
1979 with Russ Wiles. |
|
| Portugal |
|
|
|
| Romania |
|
Robert's train adventure with a
passport photo with no beard, and guards. Brazov, with Russ
Wiles, 1979. |
|
| Saudi Arabia |
 |
Not sure if a landing here
counts, en route to Nairobi. |
Ditto. |
| Spain |
 |
1974 with Rod, 1976 with Russ,
2009 on the Bike Spain cycling trip northwest of Madrid that followed
(a bit) the Vuelta a España. The cycling trip was followed
by time on our own in the Basque Country - Pamplona, San Sebastian. |
Ditto on 2009 cycling. |
| Sweden |
 |
1976 when he was going up to Norway, too. | |
| Switzerland |
 |
Honeymoon in Dec 1983/Jan
1984.
Return trip some 20 years later to see how Grindelwald had changed.
:-)
Sure he was here before 1983, too. |
Ditto on the honeymoon and
return. |
| Tanzania |
|
With LA Audubon in 1996. |
Ditto. |
| Turkey |
 |
Disembarked in Kusadasi, visited
Ephesus in 1973. |
|
| United Kingdom |
 |
Cousin Ulrich lived here,
visited him twice...also birding in East Anglia, and visiting Wales
(Caernarvon). He also went to Scotland (Edinburgh) before meeting
Liza. |
Ditto visiting Ulrich and
birding, and Wales. |
| Vatican City (Holy See) |
|
Whirlwind visit when in Rome en
route to Africa. Robert was also there and managed to see Pope Paul VI
lying in state in 1978, when he was en route to Iran. |
Ditto on the whirlwind visit. |
| Venezuela |
|
With VENT (Steve Hilty) in 1991. |
Ditto. |
| Yugoslavia |
|
Robert went when it was still
one country. :-) When he gets Serbia and Slovenia now, this
entry can be deprecated. |
|