{"id":641,"date":"2009-09-03T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2009-09-03T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:00:50","slug":"where-ive-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/where-ive-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One huge advantage of the invention of the Internet is that it can help you waste precious time- hours and hours sucked into the abyss of something we&#8217;ve termed CyberSpace.  Procrastination has never been so easy.  I found myself succumbing to the abyss this evening.  But, sometimes a needless search yields something interesting- something you never would have found had you not been wandering around in the Cyber World.  I felt that way when I found the app <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereivebeen.com\/\">&#8220;Where I&#8217;ve Been&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where I&#8217;ve Been&#8221; is a cool place where you can keep track of the places you&#8217;ve been in the world, and even document some of your travel experiences.  One of the neat features of this application is the interactive map that is produced as you account for all the countries and states you&#8217;ve visited. Here&#8217;s what my map looks like.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereivebeen.com\/map.php?uID=9086680&#038;iID=243a702046d09ae4a3eda3e1ce7f1521\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I found out I&#8217;ve been to 32 states and 45 countries- many of which I&#8217;ve been to multiple times.  Here&#8217;s a list of the countries I&#8217;ve been so privileged to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Canada<br \/>\nBrazil<br \/>\nArgentina<br \/>\nPeru<br \/>\nChile<br \/>\nCosta Rica<br \/>\nAustralia<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\nMexico<br \/>\nSpain<br \/>\nFrance<br \/>\nNetherlands<br \/>\nThe United Kingdom<br \/>\nNorway<br \/>\nSweden<br \/>\nFinland<br \/>\nRussia<br \/>\nUkraine<br \/>\nEstonia<br \/>\nPoland<br \/>\nGermany<br \/>\nSwitzerland<br \/>\nItaly<br \/>\nAustria<br \/>\nThe Czech Republic<br \/>\nGreece<br \/>\nBulgaria<br \/>\nTurkey<br \/>\nEgypt<br \/>\nIsrael<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates<br \/>\nIndia<br \/>\nNepal<br \/>\nChina<br \/>\nKenya<br \/>\nTanzania<br \/>\nZimbabwe<br \/>\nThailand<br \/>\nIndonesia<br \/>\nFrench Polynesia<br \/>\nJapan<br \/>\nNew Zealand<br \/>\nDenmark<br \/>\nVatican City<br \/>\nMalaysia<br \/>\nSingapore<\/p>\n<p>I just found this application to be fun to play with.  So, check it out yourself if you haven&#8217;t done so already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One huge advantage of the invention of the Internet is that it can help you waste precious time- hours and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}