Where Has Luft Been?

I have lived in the following places:



I have visited or lived in thirteen countries:


I have a goal to match my maternal grandfather's feat of driving through all 48 contiguous American states. Here are the major political divisions of the world which I have driven either into or out of:

  • American states:
    • Alabama, 1998.
    • Arkansas, 1997.
    • California, 1984.
    • Colorado, 1996.
    • Connecticut, 1970.
    • Delaware, 1969.
    • District of Columbia, 1969.
    • Florida, 1996.
    • Georgia, 1986.
    • Illinois, 1984.
    • Indiana, 1984.
    • Iowa, 1984.
    • Kentucky, 1997.
    • Louisiana, 1998.
    • Maine, 1970.
    • Maryland, 1969.
    • Massachusetts, 1970.
    • Michigan, 1987.
  • Mississippi, 1997.
  • Missouri, 1997.
  • Nebraska, 1984.
  • Nevada, 1984.
  • New Hampshire, 1970.
  • New Jersey, 1970.
  • New York, 1970.
  • North Carolina, 1981.
  • Ohio, 1984.
  • Pennsylvania, 1969.
  • Rhode Island, 1970.
  • South Carolina, 1981.
  • Tennessee, 1984.
  • Utah, 1984.
  • Vermont, 1973.
  • Virginia, 1969.
  • West Virginia, 1986.
  • Wisconsin, 2004.
  • Wyoming, 1984.
  • Australian states:
    • New South Wales, 2001.
    • Queensland, 2001.
  • Canadian provinces:
    • Ontario, 1981.
    • Québec, 1981.
    • New Brunswick, 2006.
    • Nova Scotia, 2006.
  • European countries:
    • Belgium, 1998.
    • Denmark, 1998.
    • England, 2001.
    • France, 1998.
    • Germany, 1998.
    • Luxembourg, 1998.
    • Netherlands, 1998.
    • Wales, 2001.

Still on the agenda: Arizona, Idaho,
Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Dakota, Texas, Washington.


Don't you think that the Aborigine on the Australian two dollar coin looks like Charles Darwin?

  1. London, England
  2. Berlin, Germany
  3. Reykjavik, Iceland
  4. Boston, MA, USA
  5. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  6. Cambridge, England
  7. Sydney, Australia
  8. Philadelphia, PA, USA
  9. Thingvellir, Iceland
  10. San Francisco, CA, USA