I am starting a survey of my personal geography. Feel free to comment with your own. Hopefully this can spread to other geography and related bloggers.
Name Origin
Irish and English
Geographical Region of Where I Grew Up
Prairie
Geography of Last Meal Eaten
Meat: Sausage from United States, created in Polish-style
Vegetable: Beans grown in the United States, originally from Mesoamerica
Fruit: Clementine from Mexico, originally grown in French Algeria
Drink: Milk from a cow in Virginia, cow's first domesticated Mesopotamia
Extremes of Travel
North: Bemidji, Minnesota (47 28' N)
South: Oranjestad, Aruba (12 31' N)
East: Kabul, Afghanistan (69 05' E)
West: San Francisco, California (122 26' W)
Interestingly Bemidji is further north than points I visited in Canada
Top Three Places Recommended for Travel
Savannah, Georgia
Guanajuato, Mexico
Black Hills, South Dakota
Three Places I Want to Visit
The Holy Land
Caucasus
Ireland
Unique Personal Way to Count Where I Have
Bodies of water I swam in
Name Origin
Irish and English
Geographical Region of Where I Grew Up
Prairie
Geography of Last Meal Eaten
Meat: Sausage from United States, created in Polish-style
Vegetable: Beans grown in the United States, originally from Mesoamerica
Fruit: Clementine from Mexico, originally grown in French Algeria
Drink: Milk from a cow in Virginia, cow's first domesticated Mesopotamia
Extremes of Travel
North: Bemidji, Minnesota (47 28' N)
South: Oranjestad, Aruba (12 31' N)
East: Kabul, Afghanistan (69 05' E)
West: San Francisco, California (122 26' W)
Interestingly Bemidji is further north than points I visited in Canada
Top Three Places Recommended for Travel
Savannah, Georgia
Guanajuato, Mexico
Black Hills, South Dakota
Three Places I Want to Visit
The Holy Land
Caucasus
Ireland
Unique Personal Way to Count Where I Have
Bodies of water I swam in
Name origin: English (last name) and Latin (first name)
ReplyDeleteGrew up: New England
Last meal eaten:
bibimbop (Korean - rice, beef, egg, vegetables, chili paste) plus milk from a Wisconsin cow
Extremes of travel:
North: Stykkisholmur, Iceland (65' N)
South: Hong Kong (22' N)
East: (108' E)
West: Homer, AK (151' E)
Top 3 recommended places:
Krakow, Poland
Giulin, China
Snaefellsnes, Iceland
3 places I want to visit
Hvar, Croatia
Brazil
Yellowstone
Ways to count where I've been:
Local food eaten
Thanks Adrian.
ReplyDeleteTDAXP did his http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2012/03/23/geographical-survey-of-tdaxp.html
As well as Adam Call Roberts http://themetropolistimes.com/2012/03/24/geographical-survey/
Great idea! I've done mine at http://www.howderfamily.com/blog/geographical-survey-12mc/ and added some extra questions.
ReplyDeleteName Origin: Yorkshire, UK
ReplyDeleteGeographical Region where I grew up: Thames basin, UK
Geography of last meal eaten (breakfast): cucumbers, black olives, feta cheese and kaymakli yoghurt all from Turkey; flat puffy bread, hot from its baking on inner roof of live-fired domed oven, wild honeycomb. Coffee grown in Kenya.
Extremes of Travel:
North = Edinburgh Lat.55 55’
South = Lat. Gizan 16 53’
East = Long. Dubai 55 16’
West =Long. Denver, Colorado 104 59’
3 places I want to Visit: Isfahan, Great Wall of China, Fez
3 places recommended for travel: (1) Ishak Pasha Sarayi near Dogubeyazit, (2) Mardin, (3) Kapodokia. All in Anatolia.
Ways to count where I’ve been: from the postcards I have sent.
Thanks for the idea! Mine: http://geography.about.com/b/2012/03/26/a-geography-of-me.htm -Matt
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