Category: TCC News

This picture was taken at the 5,000-year- old Mohenjo-daro, one of the great cities of the Indus River Valley. When Pakistan no longer felt safe, I headed to Islamabad’s airport and boarded the next flight home (via Istanbul). I was lucky. Hours after my departure, Pakistan cancelled all flights and closed its borders. Nice place…

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Life has been good to me. I was born in Bogotá 50 years ago to a highly cultured, traditionalist family of Ashkenazi Jews (my mom is a Holocaust survivor) and grew up inside the bubble of our very small community. At the time, Colombia was still very parochial, underdeveloped, and starting to suffer from what…

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Southern California TCC member Don Tomajan and Florida members Judy and Michael Fegen had a chance meeting at the Registan in the ancient city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

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The Board would like to thank outgoing board member and past president, Kevin Hughes, for his over twenty years of hard work and dedication to our club during his service on the board. As soon as the flight restrictions lift, you’ll find him back in his second home in Thailand. From our coordinators: “A toast…

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We are pleased to announce the addition of two new destinations to the Travelers’ Century Club list of countries and territories. Our list now stands at 329. They are: South Ossetia Austral Islands Both of these destinations deserve more than a passing comment, so in this post we’ll introduce South Ossetia first. Background of South…

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Our congratulations to those Club members who have reached higher levels of countries visited. Well done! Gold Members (200 or more countries) Marnie Bracht Pickering, Ontario, Canada Susan Gibson London, United Kingdom Daniel Hones Otaki, New Zealand David C. Mitchell Deer Park, Texas Ronnett Mitchell Deer Park, Texas Armin Schreiner Sprockhovel, Germany Judy Godden Walsh…

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The Travelers’ Century Club is pleased to welcome the following new members to the club: Anders Jr., Harley D. Antoine, Christin Bell, Stephen R. Bergman, Alexander Berkowsky, Pamela B. Davey, Jonathon Dorto, Anthony Dorto, Jean Giron, Belen Medina Grandcolas, Christophe Gravis, Joan Hart, Harold W. Hecht, Yannique Hendrickson, Blaine Holburt, Jonathan Hoskins, Richard Lee Irvin,…

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This may be the furthest plan from your mind, or is it? Let’s make a commitment to attend the Malta International Conference next year on May 6-9. The attendee list is limited to 150 and this will certainly be the gathering no exceptional traveler will want to miss. I’ve paid my deposit, have you? Join…

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As of 2012, members must go to the TCC Forum to access the TCC Info Files. The Forum requires a user name and password to log in. TCC will continue to mail the Info Files to those who have paid the additional $10 ($85 domestic and $95 international). Back issues of the Info Files are…

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I love maps. I love to look at maps. Geography has always been my favorite subject in school when growing up in Taiwan. When my mother bought a 100-page world atlas in early 1980s, I could flip through the atlas book for hours, like an interesting novel. Some exotic and lengthy names caught my imagination:…

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