@The Pentacle Queen,
Mmm, in some cases here you are talking about quite expansive places with a lot going on. Not that I want to push you, as one is drawn to one place or another, almost, for some, like puppets on a string.
My primary travel drives were acquired as a kid driving - well, my parents did the driving - all over the US, or so it seemed, and I got a broad view of the country. Which was good, or I'd think it might be all housing tracts, just from the ones around Los Angeles. I used to want to live any place but a housing tract, but I live in one I like now. Very unfancy but a nice mix of people and dogs and birds. (We have roadrunners and quail right here on my street in Albuquerque.) Anyway, I remember from fourth and fifth grade geography classes a smattering about the countries of the world, their capitols, and various highlights about some of them. I fixated on Rio and Rome; still haven't made it to Rio. But as was said by me and some others in another thread, I'd be happy to go anywhere, mostly.
But not by a slow boat, or the Concorde if it was still flying, or probably a camel.
