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Links to other traveler websites
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www.MostTraveledPeople.com

Most Traveled People is the website for extreme travelers and bills itself as "the world's largest group of travelers dedicated to visiting every country and territory in the world." It certainly is a very dynamic and active site. Membership is open to anyone (even to couch potatoes who have hardly traveled at all) and the annual subscription is US$49.95 per year. You visit the site, sign up by listing your travel history, and instantly you know how you rank in the world as a well-traveled person. Currently, there are almost 10,000 active members. MTP has developed a list of 872 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major states and provinces to be visited. But this master list of locations is continually growing as members vote on including ever more destinations. Nobody on this Planet has been to all 872 locations. The closest to achieving this goal is Charles A. Veley, of San Francisco, California sometimes labeled by journalists as “The Man Who Has Been Everywhere.” I recommend this site to the competitive, goal-oriented traveler who aims purely for geographic coverage by political and cultural entities and administrative divisions.

www.TravelersCenturyClub.org

Travelers' Century Club (TCC). Anyone who has visited
100 or more of the places included in their official list of
320 "countries" is eligible to join the club. There is a
joining fee and an annual membership fee. The 1,800
members, worldwide, of this elite travel circle, which
has its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, are
definite globe trotters. Many members meet regularly at
club chapters in several cities throughout the United
States and in London.

www.VirtualTourist.com

The VirtualTourist site bills itself as “The people behind the places.” It has 1 million registered members from around the world. Membership is free and you can create a map of where you have been and what’s left for you to visit, by inputting all your travel history. The site encourages members (under a pen name) to post travel tips and reviews of the places, hotels, restaurants and transport modes they have experienced. Members planning a trip can also post questions about a specific destination and hope other members with good information will reply with useful advice. But many of these unedited travel tips are somewhat shallow and amateurish evaluations and advice---the sort of narrow reports one tends to get when relying on non-expert sources for travel information.

www.intltravelnews.com

International Travel News is based in Sacramento, California and is published every month and mailed out to paid-up subscribers. It is targeted at high-frequency overseas travelers and independent adventurers. Its 100+ pages per printed issue are chock-full of word-of-mouth travel reports from subscribers---travelers’ own experiences, evaluations and tips---as well as up-to-date travel news, advisories and offerings. All submissions from travelers are edited for clarity and accuracy, so the published articles are quite useful and complete.

www.dodo.com

This site claims to be "for globetrotters worldwide!" where you "meet other globetrotters, discover new travel tips, share your travel photos and videos, browse travel diaries, and win a Trip Around the World competition." Membership is free and would-be members need to sign up and can register their travel history, but each entry for a place visited requires a travel report.

www.PeterGreenberg.com

This is Peter Greenberg’s site. He is a travel journalist who bills himself as America’s preeminent expert on travel. His site gives lots of travel tips, travel news, and travel ideas.

www.cheklist.com

This is Dr. Alan K. Hogenauer’s personal website, listing all his travel goals and accomplishments in incredible--and overwhelming--detail. I include this site simply to illustrate how some travelers see the world geographically, and how he has decided to slice it into macro- and micro-travel accomplishments and record the details in hundreds of rather overwhelming lists.

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