Sean's Travels: Insert Awful Traverse Pun Later

Where's Sean?
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Countries: 196/197

THINGS PEOPLE WROTE ABOUT ME

ALL THE PLACES

2025: Jonestown, Guyana - Japan - China - Hong Kong - Japan - Canada - USA: 48 States Road Trip (7 Done)
2024: Eritrea - Saudi Arabia - Spain - Italy - Republic of the Congo - France - Tunisia - Libya - Spain - Greece - France - Germany - Hungary - China - Hong Kong - Japan - Madagascar - Denmark - Svalbard - Norway - The Netherlands - Belgium - France - USA: 12 States - Greenland - Iceland - Ireland - United Kingdom - Japan - Ethiopia - Somaliland - Qatar - Bahrain - Turkey
2023: The Bahamas - Antigua & Barbuda - St Kitts & Nevis - Nicaragua - Haiti - Dominican Republic - Myanmar - Thailand - Japan - Vietnam - Laos - Cambodia - Barbados - Trinidad & Tobago - Grenada - Dominica - St Vincent & the Grenadines - St Lucia - Brazil - Uruguay - Paraguay - Cuba - Vanuatu - Solomon Islands - Fiji - Tuvalu - Samoa - Kiribati - Marshall Islands - Micronesia - Palau - Taiwan - Bangladesh - Bhutan - Nepal - China - Mongolia - Hong Kong - Lebanon - Syria - Uganda - Malawi - Mauritius - India - Hong Kong - Philippines - Papua New Guinea - Australia - East Timor - Indonesia - Philippines - Tonga - Nauru - Australia - Vietnam - South Korea - Iran - India - China - Sri Lanka - The Maldives - Equatorial Guinea - Gabon - France - UK - Guyana - Suriname - French Guiana - Ecuador
2022: Chad - Sudan - South Sudan - Mali - Ethiopia - Burundi - DRC - Rwanda - Djibouti - Angola - Mozambique - Comoros - Seychelles - Malaysia - Brunei - Singapore - UK - France - Switzerland - Italy - Vatican City - Gambia - Sierra Leone - Liberia - Ivory Coast - Ghana - Togo - Benin - Somalia - Belgium - Austria - Slovakia - Tunisia - Algeria - Namibia - Eswatini - Lesotho - South Africa - Niger - Burkina Faso - Gambia - Sierra Leone - Guinea Bissau - Ghana - Sao Tome - Portugal - Guinea - Nigeria
2021: Afghanistan - UAE - Tanzania - Pakistan - Iraq - Kurdistan - Armenia - Bulgaria - Cyprus - Romania - Moldova - Croatia - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Slovenia - Slovakia - Poland - Lithuania - Latvia - Estonia - Czech Republic - Azerbaijan - Kosovo - Spain - Oman - Yemen - Morocco - Western Sahara - Mauritania - Cabo Verde - Senegal - Kenya - Zimbabwe - Botswana - Zambia - Cameroon - Central African Republic - Mexico
2020: Jamaica - Norway - Hungary - Israel - Palestine - Greece - Yemen - UAE - Bahrain - Kuwait - UK - France - The Netherlands - Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg - Switzerland - Liechtenstein - Northern Italy - San Marino - Central Italy - Vatican City - Southern Italy - Monaco - Andorra - Malta - Portugal - Sweden - Finland - The Netherlands - Poland - France - Spain - Montenegro - Serbia - North Macedonia - Albania - Costa Rica
2019: Egypt - Qatar - Jordan - Mexico - Guatemala - Belize - Germany - Russia - Latvia - Belarus - Chernobyl - 5 Countries, 1 Day - The Bahamas - Taiwan - Hong Kong & Macao - China - Tibet - Argentina - Antarctica - Colombia - Panama
2018: Turkey - Turkmenistan - Peru - Bolivia - Chile - Easter Island - England - Ireland - Poland - USA: Minnesota - Australia - New Zealand - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Tajikistan - Kyrgyzstan - Kazakhstan - Georgia - Denmark - Honduras - El Salvador
2017: Japan - China - North Korea - USA: West
2016: USA: Southwest - Iceland - England - Ireland - Scotland - France - USA: Standing Rock - USA: Southwest
2014 Hawaii 2012: USA: 29 States

ALL THE STORIES

The musician wandered away. Then promptly returned and farted out another Indian tune. I could visibly see Amit trying to die. The song ended and I applauded loudly. “More Indian music!” The banjo dude obliged. Eventually Amit had to give him some Uzbek money just to fuck off. The whole thing was hilarious.

Remember that famous time Gurby played the accordion? Here is the photo. Oh man, wouldn’t it be incredible if they had the actual accordion from that time he played the accordion? That would be amazing but life doesn’t work like that, you can’t just see the accordion because you want to see the accordion WAIT OH MY GOD THEY HAVE THE ACCORDION. This is fucking amazing. My mind has been completely blown by this accordion.

There is a very interesting disconnect that happens at this moment. You know the guy has let go, and therefore you’ve tipped over backwards and are falling off a cliff. But your brain doesn’t process it like “Yep, falling off a cliff now.”

The image I’d had in my head of cage diving was a serene one. The diver hangs motionless in the water, still as a star in the night sky, the metal cage around him keeping the sharks drifting slowly through the crystal blue waters from getting any ideas. In reality, it’s total fucking chaos. Have you seen the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan? It’s like that, only under water and also with sharks.

“You’re scaring the buffalo, Sean.” “I’m sending them love! I don’t think I’m-” A low, guttural growl rose up from the herd. “Okay yeah I’m scaring the buffalo let’s go.”

Typing away on the plane as we drifted over Europe, I encountered that moment when your work tunnel vision lifts and you realize you’ve been singing “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!” out loud along with your headphones and the grandmother from Saskatchewan sitting next to you on the plane is so mortified she might not be able to finish watching The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.