Travel Goals and Cruise Count

We have goals in our travel. This page documents our progress toward those goals.

Travel goals:

• Visit 100 or more of the 252 countries/territories in the world - Progress: 115 (8 more booked) ✅ January 25, 2025, with Botswana
• Visit 100 or more of the 193 United Nations member nations in the world - Progress: 93 (4 more booked) 
• Visit all 50 U.S. States - Progress: 49; We need Oregon - planned for June 2026
• Visit all seven continents ✅ October 25, 2022, with Antarctica
• Visit all existing modern and ancient Wonders of the World
• Ancient ✅
• Pyramids at Giza - ✅ April 9, 2022
• Modern 
• Petra in Jordan - ✅ April 3, 2022
• The Colosseum in Rome - ✅ April 25, 2022
• Machu Picchu in Peru -✅ June 12, 2024
• The Taj Mahal in India - ✅ May 10, 2025
• Great Wall of China - ✅ October 8, 2025
• Chichén Itzá in Mexico - ✅ January 13, 2026
• Christ the Redeemer in Rio - planned for February 2027
• Visit six of the seven Natural Wonders of the World 
• Parícutin Volcano, Mexico -We will not be visiting here as it isn't really a tourist destination
• Great Barrier Reef, Australia ✅ November 28, 2023
• Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States ✅ September 17, 2024
• Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe ✅ January 24, 2025
• Aurora Borealis (also known as the northern lights) ✅ March 21, 2026
• Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - planned for February 2027
• Mount Everest, Nepal and Tibet - planned for November 2028

Cruise Count (all time)
If we take a long cruise with several legs where passengers embark/disembark, we count that as multiple cruises, even though it is a single trip, as it is actually a series of back-to-back cruises.

	Completed cruises		Planned cruises
	Cruises	Nights	Cruises	Nights
Total	52	727	10	159
American	0	0	1	8
Carnival	9	84	0	0
Celebrity	7	65	0	0
Disney	2	11	0	0
Norwegian	2	14	0	0
Oceania	1	10	0	0
Premier	1	4	0	0
Princess	2	39	0	0
Regent	1	21	0	0
Royal Caribbean	5	43	0	0
Seabourn	5	90	6	93
Silversea	0	0	1	20
Viking River	2	21	1	7
Viking Ocean	13	288	1	31
Viking Expedition	2	37	0	0