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Welcome to WolfeStreetTravel – a travel and photo blog that documents our periodic misadventures abroad. 

We also post contemporaneously during our travels @wolfestreettravel on Instagram.

(Note that most of the posts on WolfeStreetTravel are password protected to keep the randos out. We’re always happy to provide the password on request. Just subscribe below or email a request to wolfestreettravel@gmail.com.)

Since embarking on our first international trip in 1996, WolfeStreetTravel has visited 70 countries on 6 continents. The interactive travel map below depicts these international destinations, as well as U.S. islands and ski / snowboard trip locations.

In deciphering the map:

Red pins denote locations WolfeStreetTravel has visited

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The spectacular town of Gordes in the Luberon, Provence, France

Bike icons denote locations visited on bike trips

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Biking through Catalonia, Spain

Castle icons represent, um, castles (one of us totally digs these and we’ll go out of our way to visit them)

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Conwy Castle in Wales

Blue knife and fork icons represent our top 10 dining experiences around the world

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Absolute best dining experience at Oaxen Krog in Stockholm

Blue house icons represent our top 10 lodging experiences around the world

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Zanier Hotel’s Phum Baitang in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with its own rice paddies

(Red dining and lodging icons denote also-rans)

Countries with the great fortune to have received a visit from WolfeStreetTravel, as of December 2022:

  1. Albania (2019)
  2. Andorra (2017)
  3. Anguilla* (2000)
  4. Antigua and Barbuda (2021)
  5. Argentina (2014)
  6. Australia (2003)
  7. Austria (2006, 2008, 2012)
  8. Belgium (2015)
  9. Belize (2007)
  10. Bermuda* (2015)
  11. Botswana (2018)
  12. British Virgin Islands* (2009)
  13. Cambodia (2019)
  14. Canada (1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2013)
  15. Cayman Islands* (2015)
  16. Costa Rica (2017)
  17. Croatia (2008)
  18. Czech Republic (2006)
  19. Denmark (2016)
  20. Dominican Republic (2010)
  21. England (2011, 2016, 2022)
  22. Estonia (2022)
  23. Finland (2016)
  24. France (2002, 2008, 2015, 2017×2, 2021)
  25. Germany (2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017)
  26. Greece (2018, 2022)
  27. Grenada (1998)
  28. Guatemala (2007)
  29. Hungary (2006)
  30. Iceland (2015)
  31. Ireland (2004)
  32. Italy (2004, 2013, 2017, 2021, 2023)
  33. Jamaica (2013)
  34. Laos (2019)
  35. Latvia (2022)
  36. Liechtenstein (2017)
  37. Luxembourg (2017)
  38. Macedonia (2019)
  39. Mexico (2014, 2018×2)
  40. Monaco (2017)
  41. Montenegro (2008)
  42. Morocco (2019)
  43. Netherlands (2015, 2022)
  44. Netherlands Antilles* (2021)
  45. Norway (2016)
  46. Panama (2018)
  47. Poland (2016)
  48. Portugal (2002)
  49. Qatar (2019)
  50. Saint Kitts and Nevis (2005)
  51. Saint Lucia (2019)
  52. Saint Martin (2016)
  53. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1998)
  54. San Marino (2017)
  55. Scotland (2018)
  56. Slovakia (2006)
  57. Slovenia (2008)
  58. South Africa (2018)
  59. Spain (2002, 2011, 2017×2, 2021)
  60. Sweden (2016)
  61. Switzerland (2014, 2017)
  62. Thailand (2019)
  63. Turkey (2022)
  64. Turks and Caicos* (2020)
  65. United Arab Emirates (2019)
  66. Vatican City (2017)
  67. Vietnam (2019-2020)
  68. Wales (2022)
  69. Zambia (2018)
  70. Zimbabwe (2018)

*British Overseas Territories or Constituent Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (screw it – we’re still counting them)

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Boating with elephants and hippos on the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia

Biking Locations in Europe

  • Provence, France (2002)
  • Tuscany, Italy (2004)
  • Down the Danube: Austria / Slovakia / Hungary (2006)
  • Catalonia, Spain (2011)
  • Puglia, Italy (2013)
  • Holland (2015)
  • Loire Valley, France (2015)
  • Andalusia, Spain (2017)
  • Balkans: Macedonia and Albania (2019)
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Biking through dictator Enver Hoxha’s former retreat in Pogradec, Albania

Ski / Snowboard Locations

  • Whistler, BC (2002, 2003)
  • Park City, UT (2004)
  • Steamboat, CO (2005)
  • Keystone, CO(2006)
  • Telluride, CO (2007)
  • Crested Butte, CO (2009)
  • Jackson Hole, WY (2010)
  • Innsbruck, Austria (2012)
  • Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (2012)
  • Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada (2013)
  • Zermatt, Switzerland (2014)
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Snowboarding (albeit on a sketchy brand) in Zermatt, Switzerland

U.S. Islands

  • Monhegan, Maine (1997)
  • St. John, USVI (1999)
  • Puerto Rico (2003)
  • Nantucket, Massachusetts (2005)
  • Oahu, Hawaii (2007)
  • Kauai, Hawaii (2007)
  • Sanibel, Florida (2016)
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Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

The local rotation (primarily for July 4th, but including other getaways, as well):

  • Goodstone Inn, Middleburg, Virginia (2009×2, 2014×2, 2016, 2021)
  • Inn at Perry Cabin, St. Michael’s, Maryland (2013, 2016, 2020)
  • Inn at Willow Grove, Orange, Virginia (2013, 2016, 2020)
  • Keswick Hall, Keswick Virginia (2003?, 2015, 2017, 2022)
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Goodstone Inn’s pool in the shadow of the plantation house ruins

And a cartographic view of the lists above (courtesy of freeworldmaps.net):

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Links to sites that catalog countries:

We’ve visited 32% of the world’s countries so far, and 69% of European countries (but every country in Western Europe [including all five micronations in a single road trip. . .]):

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