I've Seen 100 Countires

At the end of 2018, I started work on creating a new Flickr album.  The ideas was to document the countries and territories that I had visited during my decades of work and travel.  A simple list is boring but I figured a representative photo that I'd taken would be a fun format.  And, as we have been exploring the world over the last eighteen years, I have been adding one new photo for each new location.  Our retirement in 2014 accelerated our exploration and global travels.  This winter, which we just completed on Wednesday, allowed us to visit three more countries. 

First, we were on a cruise in December that had a port stop in Qatar.  Doha was interesting.  

A final Holland America cruise was part of our return to Canada.  On it, our second new country was the Philippines. The Westerdam stopped in Puerto Princesa, Boracay, and in the capital of Manila. 

The ship continued to Taiwan but we had already stayed there in the past.  Therefore, our final newly-visited country was Japan.  We first stopped at an island in the far south of Japan called Ishigaki.  We proceeded the a port stop in Naha, Okinawa and then disembarked in Yokohama.  We had just three nights in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo.

As a consequence, I included three new images in the Flickr album today.  It is a bit of a milestone as it my album now contains 100 of my personal photographs.

    

These are now part of the album.  .  The images are arranged in alphabetical order.  In order to have a look at my photos, just click this link, I've Seen 100 Countries.  You can then click any individual image to see more information about it.