Fun With Maps

I don't want them to take my blog away, so here's a brief update of my travel maps to hold my place here.

Since the last update, I've added eight states . . .


. . . and 3 countries:



More to come soon.

Where I've Been

With a number of fun trips coming up in the next few months, I thought it'd be fun to try to figure out exactly where I've already gone. Using this fun site, I generated a map showing how many of the 50 states that I've seen, followed by a (sparse) map revealing what countries I've visited. The most fun, of course, will be in updating this for myself over time. Anyway, here's the state map:



And here's the world map:

Random Goal Update: 50 Books in 2008

One of my random goals for 2008 was to read 50 books during the calender year. If you check out my Shelfari shelf, everything I’ve read so far in 2008 has been placed on the ""I'm reading now"" shelf for tracking. I’m at exactly 25 books, 7 months into the year, so I’ve got some catching up to do. Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?