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 (9 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

I quickly discovered the joy of drifting into a roundabout at freeway speeds, dropping into second gear, putting the pedal down and whipping that shitty little lunchbox of a car diagonally across all the lanes and shooting out the other side of the roundabout without slowing down at all. Very fun. Also, don’t buy former rental cars.

Then red rock all around and up, up, up through Ponderosa pine as the elevation climbs and the air cools down from “Oh God, how did I sunburn my tongue?” to mile-high crispness. Gradually the trees thin out and Gray Mountain looms as you cross over into the Navajo Nation reservation, then the dirt stretches flat and dirty through Tuba City and Tonalea, the rare awkward, makeshift buildings like scraps of Skylab that fell to the desert.

Suddenly I was sliding down the cliff face. Thankfully my body has more intelligence about such things than my brain, and I was able to blindly grab onto some of the vegetation on the cliff face to halt my fall before I got to the vertical drop. I clawed my way back up to the ledge, and promptly decided that catching up to my brother was an extremely overrated concept.