I enjoying being in new and different places, I just don’t particularly enjoy the travel bit of getting there. This is rather unfortunate given that Australia is a long way from anywhere else. In my opinion faster planes, such as Concorde, are a much better idea than bigger ones, such as the A380, but that won’t make large profits for airlines.

I have a number of travel goals:

1. •Visit all continents
   

2. •Cross the equator by sea (King Neptune doesn’t fly)
   

3. •Go as far north and south as possible (but climbing Mt Everest isn’t on the agenda)
   

4. •Travel as fast as possible
   

5. •Qualify for the Travelers Century Club (visit 100 countries/regions)
   

So far I’m not going too bad

1. •Five continents (Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and North America)
   

2. •Crossed the equator on P&O’s Himalaya
   

3. •64.45N and 43.42S (and Mauna Kea’s 4200 metres is probably high enough)
   

4. •Mach 2 on British Airways Concorde, London to New York and vice versa (5 times in total)
   

5. •Only 74 countries/regions so far (highlighted in red in the world map below)
   

South America stands out as an obvious destination for a future holiday. I should work on Africa and the Middle East too. I have no idea why World66 neglect to include Antarctica.

This photograph was taken on my last flight on Concorde, BA 0001 from London (LHR) to New York (JFK) on 31 January 2003. I was in the aft cabin at 19C and clearly we were about to be served lunch.

While I’m not as dedicated as Alan Whinery to a goal of visiting all 50 US states I am not going too badly for someone on the other side of the planet. At the moment I’ve visited 34 (including DC). I’ve also been to 10 of the Canadian provinces.