Sean's Travels: Insert Awful Traverse Pun Later

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

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2025: Jonestown, Guyana - Japan
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

Something dark and squat was racing ahead of us across the scrubby savannah, darting in and out of our headlights as we bounced over bushes and rocks in fevered pursuit, the truck lurching up and down violently as I struggled to take the world’s worst photo of, possibly, a honey badger.

On the last day of the trip, we casually stopped by our driver’s house to pick up his AK-47. We were the furthest West we were going to go on this trip, and thus the closest to the action, and our guide wanted to have the gun with us in the car in case there was trouble. This kind of thing is really chill in Yemen.

So I’m running on a huge human hamster wheel in the middle of the forest in Lithuania. I know, we’ve all been there. I’m up to full sprinting speed and feeling pretty good about the entire enterprise when suddenly the entire steel contraption begins to bounce. Uh-oh. I wasn’t on the design team for this thing but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made to bounce.

I was slightly embarrassed by the relentless pace of my gyoza consumption. I thought I had pulled off the perfect crime, when upon my final visit before I left town I placed my order and the girl behind the counter didn’t ask for a name for my order. “Sean, right?” Oh. Yes. Guilty as charged. Just give me the gyozas so I can eat them behind the dumpster outside please.

Ljubljana. I stared at the word. I was going to have to say it to a bus driver soon, and I had no idea where to begin. La-joo-bell-jah-nah? Who the fuck would call their town that? Who puts Ls and Js next to each other at a dinner party or in a word? Slavs, man. Slavs do that.

First off, don’t feel bad for Franz, he was kind of a shitbag. He spent most of his free time shooting elephants, kangaroos and emus and kept a diary of the over 270,000 things he’d killed. Even in the late 1800s, people were like “Damn, Franz, ever heard of therapy?” He had not.