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: 112 (10 more booked) ✅ January 25, 2025, with Botswana
• Visit 100 or more of the 193 United Nations member countries in the world - Progress: 93 (3 more booked) 
• Visit all 50 U.S. States - Progress: Garry - 49; Arlona - 49; We both 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

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	50	701	11	178
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	0	0
Viking Ocean	11	262	3	57
Viking Expedition	2	37	0	0