Travel Meme

[c9]

OK, here's the deal. List one place you've been for each letter of the alphabet. Rules: Countries are worth 100 points, but you can only claim a country if you traveled to multiple places in it. Provinces and states are worth 10 points, but again you can only claim them if you traveled to multiple places within. Cities, towns, villages, malls, rivers, etc are worth one point. If you've been into space (even low-Earth orbit) you get 1000 points. Maximum score, therefore, is 3500. What's your score?

Alberta (10)
British Columbia (10)
Canada (I've traveled to or through nine provinces so far!) (100)
Durban, South Africa (1)
Eaton's Department Store (1)
France (100)
Gauteng Province, South Africa (10)
Hawai'i (10)
Idaho (10)
Johannesburg, South Africa (1)
Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa (10)
London, England (1)
Maine (10)
Nevada (10)
Ontario (10)
Prince Edward Island (10)
Quebec (10)
Rome (1)
South Africa (100)
Toronto (1)
United States (100)
Vermont Edit: Vatican City (100)
Washington State (10)
Xerox toner supplier (Staples) (yes, I cheated. X is hard.) (1)
York Regional Municipality (1)
Zurich, Switzerland (1)

Cam's score: 629

I thought of a few places I wanted to use, but they would have lowered my score: Athens Airport, Gateway Village PEI, and Walla-Walla Washington. :-)

Edit: nihilicious reminds me of the Vatican. Literally.

Comments

867

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

Alberta (10)
British Columbia (10)
Cuba (100)
Denver (1)
Edmonton (1)
France (100)
Germany (100)
Holyrood (1)
Italy (100)
J
Kitchener-Waterloo (1)
L
Monaco (100)
Newfoundland & Labrador (10)
Ontario (10)
Prince Edward island (10)
Quebec (10)
Regina (1)
Salem (1)
The Netherlands (100)
United States (100)
Vatican City (100)
W
Xanadu (0)
Yarmouth (1)
Z

I gave myself 100 for Vatican City & Monaco... they're both nations, and I went pretty much everywhere there was to go within them. Cheaty, but not cheating.

Re: 867

[c9.livejournal.com]

Shit, Vatican! I could have used that. Damn Pope, always messing up my life.

Re: 867

[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.....

Australia (100)
Belgium (100)
Canada (100)
DPRK (100)
El Salvador (100)
France (100)
Germany (100)
Honduras (100)
Indonesia (100)
Japan (100)
Kentucky (10)
Laos (100)
Malaysia (100)
Netherlands (100)
Ontario (10)
Portugal (100)
Quebec (10)
Regina (1)
South Africa (100)
Thailand (100)
United States (100)
Vietnam (100)
Wyoming (10)
X
Y
Zimbabwe (100)

So, 1941 total. Hrumph.

Re: 868

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

Adding London for a point.

Re: 869

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

Wolfville, NS

[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

3 letters from countries, another 6 from provinces and states, and assuming enough time wasted would produce 17 single-pointers, gives 377.

I may finish last in your little game.

[thespos]

Ooh... this looks fun. :-) Lessee...

Arizona (10)
Belgium (100)
California (10)
Delaware (10)
England (100)
France (100)
Georgia (10)
Hoboken, NJ (1)
Iselin, NJ (1)
Jacksonville, FL (1)
Keflavik, Iceland (1)
Louisiana (10)
Minnesota (10)
Netherlands (100)
Orlando, FL (1)
Pennsylvania (10)
Queens, NY (1) :-P
Richmond, VA (1)
Singapore (100)
Texas (10)
United States (100)
Virginia (10)
Washington, DC (1)
X - does anywhere begin with X?
Y
Zwolle, the Netherlands (1)

Score: 699

[thespos]

Ooh... scratch Zwolle, and insert Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands, which is a province. :-)

699-1+10=708

:-)

[zanate.livejournal.com]

Australia (100)
Belgium (100)
Cuba (100)
Digby, NS (1)
England (100)
France (100)
Glasgow, Scotland (1)
Hong Kong (100) (back when it was a country)
Italy (100)
Japan (100)
K
Luxembourg (100)
Monaco (100)
Netherlands (100)
Ontario (10)
Phillipines (100)
Quebec (10)
Red Deer, AB (1)
Spain (100)
Truro, NS (1)
United States (100)
Victoria, BC (1)
West Germany (100)
X
Yarmouth, NS (1)
Zurich, Switzerland (1)

1537. Tricky! I couldn't come up for anything with 'K' that wasn't in one of the listed countries or provinces.

Thank goodness for having been a couple of places in Cuba, kept me from having to burn Canada for 100 points.

[jpman.livejournal.com]

Where did you go in Maine? That wsa the pn;ly one on your list I can't say I knew.

[c9.livejournal.com]

We drove through it last spring after a family wedding. Woo!

[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

Driving through probably gets me another 20 points, but I'm still last last last...