Sunday, June 20, 2010

Blaine's travels

As Blaine finishes a 34-year career in newspaper journalism for the WashPost and NYT, I want to mark the occasion with a list of the countries stamped into his passports.

He was a foreign correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia for the WashPost, made some trips for the NYT, and has taken a few vacations here and there.

So, the list:

USA (including stories from all 50 states and Guam)
Canada
UK
France
Italy
Portugal
Germany
Denmark
Ireland
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Austria
Poland
Hungary
Russia
Bulgaria
Romania
Czechoslovakia (before the split)
Yugoslavia (before the split)
Serbia
Croatia
Bosnia
Slovenia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Kosovo
Albania
Greece
Turkey
Iraq
Azerbajan
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Somalia
Kenya
Uganda
Rwanda
Tanzania
Burundi
Congo
Zambia
Sudan
Mozambique
Mauritius
Zimbabwe
Botswana
South Africa
Angola
Ghana
Liberia
Nigeria
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Bahamas
Bermuda
Philippines
Indonesia
Singapore
Japan
North Korea
South Korea
China
Taiwan
Thailand
Australia
Burma

67 countries! Wow.

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