places I want to visit

Though I’ve been pretty lucky with travel from age 30 onward, there are still some holes that I badly want to fill. Let’s start with North America, in no particular order.

*Providence, Rhode Island. While reading Joshi’s Lovecraft biography, I’ve sometimes had Google Maps out, just in order to gain a sense of the landscape. I only passed through Providence once on Amtrak, en route from Baltimore to Boston, back in 1988.

*I’d like to live in New York for a year, and Boston for a year. I’ve spent only a week total in each place, which makes me feel like a sorry excuse for an American intellectual.

*Maine

*Quebec City and Vancouver, both obviously stunning in different ways

*Charleston, South Carolina

*A car trip around Florida. I’ve only been in the Miami Airport to and from Brazil, and have otherwise never set foot in the state.

*Las Vegas, just for the fun of it

*Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks

*South Dakota, the only state bordering Iowa where I’ve never been

*Shiloh battlefield in Tennessee, just for the family history of it (where my great-great grandfather took 2 or 3 bullets at age 19 fighting under Grant against the Confederates)

Portland used to be high on my list, but I finally had the chance to go there two years ago to visit my brother in his new hometown, and I enjoyed it very much.

Outside North America…

*sub-Saharan Africa

*southeast Asia

*Pisa and Salzburg are probably the two main European cities I’ve missed

*Russia

*China, incl. Hong Kong

*Australia/New Zealand

*Uzbekistan

*Darjeeling, India

Most likely I won’t hit every single one of these, but I’m glad not to know in advance which ones I’ll miss.