Looking for a place to stay in Timbuktu? Planning your next transcontinental overland trek? Want to know what winter is like in Mongolia? Here are some people who can help you out. Please don't include tourist stops.
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Antarctica
Argentina
- San Juan, Ushuaia, and Buenos Aires Andres Schabelman
Austria
- Kalwang Joe McDonough
Bolivia
- Urubicha, also The World's Most Dangerous Road—Concert Choir 2005
Canada
- Sudbury, Halifax, Gaspe, Calgary, Banff Morgan Goodwin
- Nova Scotia, Vancouver, Whistler (I don't think Toronto counts) Helen Selonick
- Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kuujjuaq Toby Hall
Chile
- Atacama Desert: Joseph Gangestad, Jessie Kerr ,Cat Vielma
China
- Xinjiang: (Mainly Urumqi, Turpan, and Kashgar) Jason Law
- Yunnan: (Mainly Kunming, Zhongdian, Shangri'La, Xi'An, Beijing, Dali, Ruili, and Lijiang) Andres Schabelman
- Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'An, Hong Kong, Dunhuang, Inner Mongolia and the Gobi Desert: Philip Arnolds
- Xi'an, Huashan, Beijing, Shenzhen, HongKong, Tianjin: Morgan Goodwin
Colombia
- Medellin, Cartagena, Bogota, Cali Andres Schabelman
Croatia
- Zagreb, Opatija Noemi Fernandez
Czech Republic
- Harrachov: Morgan Goodwin
- Ceske Krumlov: Liz Pierce
- Prague, Ceske Krumlov: Jim Prevas
Dominican Republic
- La Romana Helen Selonick
- David Rodriguez doesn't think the country with over 700,000 foreign-born immigrants in the U.S. is an obscure place, but he's been to Santiago, Santo Domingo, La Romana, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Higuey, Juan Dolio, Boca Chica, San José de las Matas, Jánico, La Vega, Jarabacoa, Bonao, and Moca, just to name a few major places.
Egypt
- Students who have studied at AUC
- Philip Arnolds
Finland
- Rovaniemi (Santa's village and Arctic Cirle), Turku, Helsinki: Ersen Bilgin and Grace Song
- Voukatti (year round indoor ski tunnel) Morgan Goodwin
Germany
- Kernen-Im-Remstal Elizabeth Pasipanodya
Georgia
- Students who went on the Georgia Winter Study class
- Philip Arnolds
- Jason Ren -2006
Greece
- Athens, Santorini, Crete, Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes Andres Schabelman
- Athens, Sparti, Corinth, Mycenae, Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes, Santorini, Chania (Crete), Heraklion (Crete), Jim Prevas
Hungary
- Dombovar Elizabeth Pasipanodya
India
- Srinagar, Leh, Kargil, Manali - know most of these towns, Rahul Shah
- Mahabaleshwar, Panchgini - know like the back of my hand, Rahul Shah
Kenya
- Nairobi, Mt. Kenya, Samburu, Masai Mara Andres Schabelman
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
- Beirut Kathryn Lindsey
Mexico
- Chihuahua: Alan Cordova
- Jalisco, Oaxaca, Sonora, Chihuahua, Michoacan, Durango, Zacatecas, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Colima, Baja California, Nayarit, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes Noemi Fernandez
- Colonia Azucenas, Oaxaca Andres Schabelman
Mongolia
- Gana Badamgarav
- Ulaanbaatar:Alan Cordova, Stephen Wills
Morocco
- Ryan Carollo, students who went on the '05 Winter Study trip
- Tangier Helen Selonick
- David Rodriguez crossed the Strait of Gibraltar for an overnighter in Tangier
- Lindsey Corbin
New Zealand
- South Island (Christchurch, Wanaka, Franz Josef, Queenstown) Helen Selonick
- Christchurch, Dunedin Ruth Aronoff '09
North Korea
- Roy Liu
- Ji Ae Rhee
Northern Ireland
- Belfast Helen Selonick
Norway
- Trondhiem Morgan Goodwin
Russia
- Irkutsk: Sara Beach '06, Jack Nelson '07, Emily Button '07, Casey Drosehn '07
- Ulan-Ude: Sara Beach '06, Emily Button '07, Casey Drosehn '07
South Africa
- Elizabeth Pasipanodya
Space
- Jonathan Ohueri. His father is an astronaut for NASA and took him into orbit around the Earth as a young child.
Sweden
- Solleftea Morgan Goodwin
- Picked up our Volvo in Goteborg and drove all over (even to Legoland in Denmark) Helen Selonick
Switzerland
- Lötschental, Emmental, Diemtigtal, Lower Engadin, Appenzell, Gersau, etc.: Jono Dowse; proof in PDF form
Tajikistan
- Dushanbe: Alan Cordova
Turkey
- Kucukkabaca, Isparta, Cappadocia, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Istanbul, Antalya, Denizli: Grace Song
- Goreme, Istanbul, Pamukkale, Cappadocia Andres Schabelman
- Ephesus Jim Prevas
Uzbekistan
United States
- Alaska (Fairbanks, Prudhoe Bay Oil Field): Mary Haas
- Alaska (Kupreanof Island, Kake): Danny Fischler
- Hawaii (Honolulu) Helen Selonick
- Evan Miller once asked for directions to a nearby campsite at a gas/lotto station in Uniontown, Kansas (population 283) [1]. The overalled, bug-eyed proprietor with a John Deere hat perched on his head told him, "Oh it's real easy to get there. Go over the hill right here and take a left at the church, and then take your first right, then left-right-left-right-left-right, and it'll be there on your left. Can't miss it." And he didn't. You can verify the directions from Uniontown to the camp entrance for yourself:
Zambia
- Elizabeth Pasipanodya
Zimbabwe
- Elizabeth Pasipanodya
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- Wall Drug (of "450 miles to Wall Drug" fame) Diana Davis
- Nevada (Highway 50, The Loneliest Road in America) Jay Cox-Chapman
- Colorado to Vermont one month by bike. (Kansas is as flat as they say it is) Alex Ambros