Travelers Century Club.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:00 am

96?...right thats it,i'm deliberatly booking trips to 7 countries so that i can beat you :cry:

Waldos is top-dog on the Stew so far...

5waldos · Post by **5waldos** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:46 pm

Lincoln wrote:96?...right thats it,i'm deliberatly booking trips to 7 countries so that i can beat you

Waldos is top-dog on the Stew so far...

I think I have been at it longer than most here on the stew though- so that accounts for a lot of it. I also began hopping the Atlantic when I was 5 weeks old. Before jets were common. Although yes- they did have planes to fly in. But only if you got all dressed up and acted like gentlement and ladies. I believe that hats and gloves were still expected. Well- I didn't have to but I was a special case.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 5:19 pm

Lincoln and his exceedingly large testicles arrives in Berlin to an adoring crowd
"Tell us Lincoln,how many countries have you been to Lincoln?"

Well,I don't like to brag but seeing as you ask it's....91.

"You are amazing Lincoln,we love you"

Suck on my hairy,sweaty ball sack.

pezworld · Post by **pezworld** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 7:05 pm

Only 35, plus two airport pass-throughs (Korea and New Zealand).

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:44 pm

Standby for more amazing Lincoln travel news....

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 9:30 pm

BOOM! It's country number 92 for this amazing traveler as he arrives with his large testicles in Malta.

First impressions are of some pretty a amazing buildings with ornate balconies and subtle differences in the way they celebrate Christmas like every roundabout has a wooden nativity scene proudly displayed and the insides of churches are decked out with tinsel and tacky ,chinsey decorations.
So far,so good.

mad hatter · Post by **mad hatter** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 9:31 pm

Lincoln wrote:BOOM! It's country number 93 for this amazing traveler as he arrives with his large testicles in Malta.

First impressions are of some pretty a amazing buildings with ornate balconies and subtle differences in the way they celebrate Christmas like every roundabout has a wooden nativity scene proudly displayed and the insides of churches are decked out with tinsel and tacky ,chinsey decorations.
So far,so good.

But how do they celebrate Holiday?

Homerj · Post by **Homerj** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 5:08 pm

62.... Martinique.

andybox · Post by **andybox** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 2:23 am

Don't know how many, but recent additions were Vanuatu and New Caledonia

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:24 pm

What was New Caladonia like Andy? I've wanted to go there for ages.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:42 pm

"Where in the world are you Lincoln,and how many kuntries have you been to?"....yells the adoring crowd.

Well,I don't like to brag but seeing as you ask I'm in St Vincent and that's kuntry number 93.

"You are amazing Lincoln,you must have huge testicles"

Yes,yes I am and yes,,yes I do.

mad hatter · Post by **mad hatter** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:10 pm

Pictures of testicles or they don't exist.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:38 pm

Boom!...been a while since I checked into this cess-Pitt and there's travel news to be had and not just a little sucking for you all to do on my hairy,sweaty travel balls.

December spent in Madeira..kuntry number 94

January in Poland..95

February so far spent in Morocco where my balls are right now....96

Suck on it bitches....I am better traveled than you (not you 5Waldos,but I'm catching you)

simon_in_exile · Post by **simon_in_exile** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:55 pm

Madeira isn't a country! Nice place though all the same (I've been a few times before Ronaldo tainted it with his wankerness).

Electrolyte · Post by **Electrolyte** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:06 am

Electrolyte wrote:What is a country?

simon_in_exile wrote:Heh.

Serious question. What makes a country?

Is Taiwan a country? Western Sahara? The Vatican? Transdnistria?

The Century Club list is bs. Alaska, Hawaii, and the continental US are separate countries? ...

matt_melb · Post by **matt_melb** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:14 am

They have a set of rules. They are somewhat outrageous. It's a while since I looked, but I think any separate island or exclave counts if it's more than 50 miles (or something) away.

Electrolyte · Post by **Electrolyte** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:39 pm

I think they want to have as many "countries" as possible or else they would have many members who have been to all of them and the club wouldn't be as interesting.

eric84 · Post by **eric84** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:13 pm

Have you gone to a country if that country no longer exists?

Electrolyte · Post by **Electrolyte** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:52 pm

I've been to Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. How many countries is that?

How will Maldives be counted when it is underwater?

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:53 am

There's a section on the TCC which lists "retired" countries I.e countries that no longer exist,they don't count on the list of 325 countries.So to answer your question Electrolyte Checkhoslovakia (spelling?) Wouldn't count t but the other 2 would.

Stephen_Dedalus · Post by **Stephen_Dedalus** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:03 pm

So, the Sov e yat un i un doesn't count?

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:04 pm

Sadly no, but the place in the Soviet Union that you went to would count.

5waldos · Post by **5waldos** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:16 am

I think since posting I am now at 102. PNG, the Solomons, and a number of Central European countries added to my list. But out of 396 or whatever they claim these days it is still barely 25%.

simon_in_exile · Post by **simon_in_exile** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:41 am

Just counted through that list - I've visited 88 of these territories (most recently Siberia).

Where are the closest places to your hometown that you haven't visited?
For me, it would be: Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Faroe Islands, San Marino, Iceland, Kaliningrad.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:13 pm

Thats an interesting question...for me it'd be Isle of Man (had a flight booked to go there in jan but i had the flu so didn't go)...Guernsey and Jersey would also be my closest places.

5waldos · Post by **5waldos** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:27 pm

Guatemala I think. Arctic.

5waldos · Post by **5waldos** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:58 pm

Oh - and Cuba.

Electrolyte · Post by **Electrolyte** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:33 pm

111 if I use their list and 118 if I count airports where I didn't clear immigration.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:47 pm

Wow 111..? thats impressive.

Just booked for Crete in 6 weeks and 2 days time....not that i'm counting

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Tue May 30, 2017 10:32 pm

Hi all here's an up date on the whereabouts of my hairy,sweaty ballsac in case you feel the need to see just how big my travel-balls are....yes that's right Lincoln arrives in yet another country...it's Crete and it's number 97.

I roole!

leela · Post by **leela** » Tue May 30, 2017 11:06 pm

Crete isn't a country.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Wed May 31, 2017 7:37 am

Read that list again school teacher :roll:

polardude1 · Post by **polardude1** » Wed May 31, 2017 12:55 pm

48 according to the list. I'm a tourist

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Wed May 31, 2017 1:55 pm

Far from it polar,I respect you as a traveler as I do Leela etc...it's just that I'm better at it than you

GLimpet · Post by **GLimpet** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:04 pm

simon_in_exile wrote:Just counted through that list - I've visited 88 of these territories (most recently Siberia).

Where are the closest places to your hometown that you haven't visited?
For me, it would be: Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Faroe Islands, San Marino, Iceland, Kaliningrad.

Iceland, if transit Reykjavik airport doesn't count. Faroes. Isle of Man. Luxembourg. Andorra. Lichtenstein. Slovakia.

Took a bus though the Balkans when Yugoslavia was the dominant country but the only ones I've spent time in were Romania , Albania and Greece.

I had a look at the Travelers Club link. It seems bizarre that they count Alaska and PEI but not Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. Siberia but not Sakhalin. And so on.

polardude1 · Post by **polardude1** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:45 pm

The voters' names are removed through the state's so-called "Supplemental Process." Under the process, if a voter does not vote during a two-year period

On that list? Prince Edward island

GLimpet · Post by **GLimpet** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:50 am

Lincoln wrote:BOOM! It's country number 92 for this amazing traveler as he arrives with his large testicles in Malta.

First impressions are of some pretty a amazing buildings with ornate balconies and subtle differences in the way they celebrate Christmas like every roundabout has a wooden nativity scene proudly displayed and the insides of churches are decked out with tinsel and tacky ,chinsey decorations.
So far,so good.

Malta is so 1982.

The big roundabouts are great though. You just take the shortest route through them in any direction. It's like playing dodgems with real cars.

GLimpet · Post by **GLimpet** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:19 am

Excel tells me 68 from Abu Dhabi to Wales once I've deleted all the ones on the TC list I haven't been to.

Some tourist on a island cruise, or turnip from Lincolnshire, could probably beat that.

Scrubb · Post by **Scrubb** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:35 am

With their bizarro list I hit 70. (Didn't include ones where I didn't set foot outside the airport or off the train.)

egjeg · Post by **egjeg** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:10 am

I'm up to 38. Not that impressive, but I've also been to 33 of China's 34 provinces, claimed provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and SARs, and seven of Australia's eight states and territories, so I think that should count for a lot.

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:10 am

GLimpet wrote:Excel tells me 68 from Abu Dhabi to Wales once I've deleted all the ones on the TC list I haven't been to.

Some tourist on a island cruise, or turnip from Lincolnshire, could probably beat that.

Those are rookie numbers glimpet especially for one so old :lol:

Looks like we turnips travel more than the average Aussie haggis.

simon_in_exile · Post by **simon_in_exile** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:16 am

Does East Crete count as #98?

Lincoln · Post by **Lincoln** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:27 am

I sense jealousy oozing through your words Yorkshire pudding...btw check out my amazing photography in the Crete post below....knocks your Moscow Shiite into a cocked hat I think you'll find.

simon_in_exile · Post by **simon_in_exile** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 11:51 am

Ha! I went to Crete on a package deal back in the 90s, and would definitely return - its stunning. Portraying Moscow in a good light sometimes takes quite some effort...

GLimpet · Post by **GLimpet** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 2:51 pm

Lincoln wrote:
GLimpet wrote:Excel tells me 68 from Abu Dhabi to Wales once I've deleted all the ones on the TC list I haven't been to.

Some tourist on a island cruise, or turnip from Lincolnshire, could probably beat that.

Those are rookie numbers glimpet especially for one so old

Looks like we turnips travel more than the average Aussie haggis.

I'm more about depth than width.

leela · Post by **leela** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:21 pm

I might have lost track a bit, since there's no nice check box system for counting. But using their very loose definition of countries and 'visiting' I think I got 55. Which is significantly more than I consider myself to have visited.

Electrolyte · Post by **Electrolyte** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:43 pm

Anybody want to propose a list of countries?

Maybe we start with UN member countries? https://www.infoplease.com/world/intern ... ed-nations

Maybe we add Taiwan and the Vatican (both of which I've been to so I have an interest in doing so)?

GLimpet · Post by **GLimpet** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:05 pm

What about the "only stopped in the airport" rule?

Electrolyte · Post by **Electrolyte** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 9:53 pm

It's BS.

You need a stamp in your passport and dirt on your shoes (e.g. passing through on the train isn't enough even though you get a passport stamp).

egjeg · Post by **egjeg** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:56 am

Electrolyte wrote:Anybody want to propose a list of countries?

Maybe we start with UN member countries? https://www.infoplease.com/world/intern ... ed-nations

Maybe we add Taiwan and the Vatican (both of which I've been to so I have an interest in doing so)?

CGP grey has a good YouTube channel, and he's made a video on this topic