melanie.
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You guys make me jealous... only 5 *sighs*
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Now ... that's another story, for another time....countries we're allowed back to???????
Apparently you have a lot of company in this obsession. From a recent article in Slate:
How many countries has everyone else visited? My wife thinks it is a weird obsession of mine trying to go to new countries all the time, but it is a big world, and I like seeing different parts of it.
Country collectors accumulate visits to places the way philatelists accumulate stamps and grandmothers accumulate Hummel figurines. It is their life's work. They are slaves to a pair of diverse passions that turn out not to be mutually exclusive: the adventurer's love of exploration, and the anal-retentive's love for crossing things off lists.
My buddy is persona non grata in Vietnam, it seems. Well, not legally, but he can't get an entry visa. We're not sure what he did to deserve that, but he did send a bunch of letters from Ho Chi Minh that started out:...countries we're allowed back to???????
Saigon... $hit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.
Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.