MapChart

I found a website call MapChart that allows you to pull up various maps and color map subdivision individually to represent data. The most obvious and easy one to do is travel. I mapped which countries I have been to, and also one of US states and Canadian provinces. I tried to do a California map using counties, but could not figure out which county is which.

For the maps, I use blue for my home country/state, and colored the data using yellow.

The world map is pretty sad. Most of the countries are gray since I have only been to a handful of countries. Not that I can travel again, once the pandemic subsides, I am looking forward to turning more countries yellow.

• USA and Canada: too many to list
• Mexico: Tijuana, Cancun, Chichen Itza y
• UK: London
• France: Paris
• Switzerland: unknown city, midnight train stop
• Italy: Rome, Florence
• Tunisia: Tunis + all major cities
• Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto
• Taiwan: Taipei, Kaoshiung, Taichung, Tainan, Keelung, Hualien
• China: Chengdu, Beijing, Shenzen, Sanya (Hainan), Zigong (Szechuan)
• Thailand: Bangkok, Udon Thani, Phuket
• Singapore
• Hong Kong

Truthfully, some of these states and provinces marked yellow are kinda fake. Like Switzerland in the world map, I only transited or drove through some of these states/provinces. These are the iffy ones: Texas, Florida, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Alberta, and Yukon. For the rest, I have spent at least one night in each country/state/province.

For the future, I have mapped out countries that I really want to visit, and those that are second priority (repeat visit included).

If I had to narrow it down to three countries on the future list, it would be South Korea, Germany, and Australia since I have not been there before. I still have a lot of relatives in Canada so that is likely 100% certain. I also have Taiwan citizenship and there is a non-zero chance that I may buy an apartment in Taipei and live there part-time. My sister’s family is also planning a middle-Europe trip, probably Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Czechia, and Hungary (maybe not all in one trip).

C’mon everyone, get vaccinated so I can travel again!