World View

We bought a foam-backed World Map at Metzker Maps in Seattle and then bought pins. Red ones for the places the kids have been with us; blue pins for the places Dae and/or I have been. We had a lot of fun recalling the places we have been!

We've done a lot of Europe. The big holes are Africa, Australia, Central Asia & Eastern Europe, and lots of South America.

My dream destinations:

• Siberia and Mongolia
• African Safari (when kids are a little older)
• Norway, Lofoten Islands
• Japan with kids
• Greenland (my ultimate dream)
• Warsaw - Chopin museum only. haha.
• North and South Dakota, Wyoming
• Anywhere there is 24 hour light in summer
• South of France, Provence, and Paris (always)
• Spain and Mallorca

Kids are pushing for:

• Africa

Dae is interested in:

• Japan
• African safari
• Korea (always, I assume)
• anywhere I suggest, although he needs to be convinced of Mongolia and Siberia. And North and South Dakota. And Norway. ha! He says we are food-focused people, which we are, and that those remote areas won't have good food. But I argue that wouldn't it be so cool to see how people live in those remote areas? Yes.

Places neither of us are interested in yet:

• Australia
• Antarctica
• India
• Any of the -stan countries