Century Club

Century Club 

A Traveler's Club

Membership in to the Century Club is not much more than bragging right.  Once a traveler can document that s/he has been to 100 places on the list of 300 options, that individual can join, pay a large fee and brag about visit at least 100 of the most exotic places in the world.

I am almost there with my 100 journeys. However, I am not joining becasue I am too damn cheap and don't see enough value to joining.  And I do not agree with the guidelines for counting a destination as being one you have achieved.  For instance, you can count a country even if you only were in the airport, as a lay-over.  I don't think that should count.

I like to travel and I have a yearly  travel goal: each year, a new country, a new state in the USA and a new city/own in Pennsylvania. And up until the pandemic started I have been pretty good at reaching that goal.  But now, I haven't traveled outside the USA since March 2020 so I have not met my yearly goal of a new country and I have probably forfeited the potential to visit 4 or 5 new countries during this time.

I am also finding that I am losing my edge with traveling.  I have become too content with just sitting around.  I really have to get back to that drive to just get up and visit some place I have never been before.  So I went on line and tried to see where did I fit in to reaching my goal.  Here is what I have so far: 

• Alaska
• Argentina
• Antarctica
• Aruba
• Australia
• Australian Antarctic Territory
• Austria
• Bahamas
• Bali 
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belgium
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Bhutan
• Boreno
• Botswana
• Brazil
• British Antarctic Territory
• Cambodia
• Canada
• Chilean Antarctic Territory
• China, People’s Republic of
• Costa Rica
• Curacao
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Ecuador
• Egypt in Africa
• El Salvador
• England
• Fiji Islands
• Finland
• France
• French Antarctica (Adélie, Kerguelen) 
• Galapagos Islands
• Germany
• Greece
• Greek Aegean Islands
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Hawaiian Islands- airport only
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Indonesian Borneo 
• Ireland 
• Israel
• Istanbul (see Turkey in Europe)- airport only
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Java (see Indonesia (Java)
• Jersey
• Jordan
• Kenya
• Korea, South (Republic of Korea)
• Lativa
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Morocco
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• New Zealand Antarctica
• Nicaragua
• North Borneo 
• Norway
• Norwegian Dependencies (Norwegian Antarctica)
• Palestine
• Palmer Peninsula (see Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory, and Chilean Antarctic Territory)
• Panama
• Peru
• Poland
• Portugal
• Prince Edward Island
• Puerto Rico
• Qatar- airport only
• Russia
• Scotland
• Singapore
• South Africa
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Sweden
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Tibet
• Turks & Caicos Island
• United States (Contiguous)
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)
• Wales
• Zimbabwe