My Travel Past

This is more for me than for people who read this, since I print my blog into books at the end of each year.

Now that I am in one place, I decided it was a good time to make a spreadsheet of all of the cities I visited while touring, as well as a list of where I have been so far outside of the U.S. and Canada. You think you will remember forever, but you simply don't. When I was going through my touring calendars, I had zero recollection of being in some of those places. I knew that I had stopped in over 300 touring cities, but now I actually have it all in one place. My back hurts from sitting all day, and my eyes are going at little wonky, but I think it was well worth it.

A few findings:

I traveled to 340 cities, but only 249 unique cities. Meaning I went back to some of the same places more than once.

The number one city that I have been back to more than any other on tour is.... DETROIT. Ew! Four times in five years. Best theatre, but horrible place. Remember when my car got stolen there? I do, and I also remember the time I did not blog about when I got harassed terribly by some men at a restaurant and felt completely unsafe.

Close runners up at three visits each were: Boston, Bozeman, Buffalo, Clearwater, Indianapolis, Portland (OR), Providence, Rochester, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Sarasota, Toledo and Vancouver. I can remember so much about these cities, and have great memories of them.

The states I have been to the most cities is are California and Florida, tied at 18. Second runner up is Pennsylvania at 13. The Canadian Provence I have been to the most cities in is Alberta, at four. I'm shocked they even have four cities there!

I have been to four Springfields. Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Missouri. I hear that's why the Simpson's live in Springfield- there are so many of them that they could be in Anywhere U.S.A.

My list of countries visited is:

• Russia



• Greenland



• Iceland



• Denmark



• Ireland



• Germany



• United Kingdom



• Switzerland



• France



• Vatican City



• Austria



• Italy



• Greece
  Turkey

I will be adding the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia to the list in a few months. Looking at this, it makes me realize that I need to branch out to some of the other continents. When my sister no longer lives in Europe, I think I will start trying some other areas of the world.

I really don't know how I am going to handle two weeks of vacation next year. Sigh....

2011 Horoscope

I was just on Yahoo, and I clicked on the horoscope section. I am really not into the whole astrology thing, but I will say that sometimes I can relate to it. Especially those books that tell you what your personality is based on what day in history you were born- wow.

Anyway, I bought a new car a few weeks ago and two days after I bought it and sweat over it, I was drying my hands in the bathroom of a restaurant, and they had the weekly horoscopes posted on the wall. It said that I should not make a big financial decision because expenses were coming my way that I did not foresee. Meh- what ever. Don't think that within two weeks I got blasted with unexpected issues. Stupid horoscope.

So I read the financial and career horoscope for the year on Yahoo tonight (I just ignored the romance one because it will probably say I will adopt foreign babies when I am 50) and it said the following two things (copy and pasted):

This is why sitting behind an isolated desk doing menial tasks will just never rock your world. And I'm adding- NEVER.

It shall then again return in 2012 to stay for an extended 14-year ride, making sure that you absolutely adore what you do. Talking about how this May through August was the perfect work environment for me.

Based on how things have been going for the last six months at Majestic, I bet that this little possibly made-up future comes true for me. It's really the perfect job.

Cheers to being a Libra!