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Central Eurasia

1 No Holiday: Chernobyl, Ukraine

2 No Holiday: The Aral Sea, Uzbekistan

3 No Holiday: Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

4 No Holiday: Tora Bora, Afghanistan

5 No Holiday: Camp Salerno, Afghanistan

6 No Holiday: Bhutan

7 No Holiday: Mount Everest, Nepal

India

8 No Holiday: The Great Hedge of India

9 Working No Holiday: Makrana

10 No Holiday: Bhopal poison factory

11 No Holiday: Kerala, the rice bowl of India

12 No Holiday: Mumbai, and the Towers of Silence

The Far East

13 No Holiday: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

14 No Holiday: Myanmar, also known as Burma

15 Working No Holiday: Plet Me, Vietnam

16 No Holiday: The Mao Trail, Shaoshan

17 No Holiday: The Mao Trail, Tiananmen Square

18 No Holiday: Shantou, China

19 No Holiday: Beijing, China

20 No Holiday: North Korea, the Demilitarized Zone

21 No Holiday: Tokyo, Japan

USA

22 No Holiday: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

23 No Holiday: Journey to Death, New Mexico

24 Travel and the American Mind: William Bartram's Alligators

25 Travel and the American Mind: Fields of Strawberries and the black drink of the Cherokee

26 Genocide Outings: Alabama: Fort Payne and Day 1 of “The Trail Where They Cried”

27 Travel and the American Mind: The Magic of Magnolia Mountain

28 No Holiday: Fort Benning, Georgia

29 No Holiday: NSA Headquarters, Fort Meade, Maryland

30 No Holiday: Washington D.C.

31 No Holiday: Bronx Zoo, New York

Central America

32 No Holiday: Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

33 No Holiday: El Salvador

34 No Holiday: Panama

South America

35 No Holiday: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

36 No Holiday: Bolivia

37 No Holiday: Valle Grande, Bolivia

Oceania

38 No Holiday: South Surin Island, Thailand

39 No Holiday: Manila, Philippines Side trip: The Museum of Mrs. Marcos' Shoes, Marikina

40 No Holiday: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands

Australasia

41 No Holiday: Outback Art at Carisbrooke Cattle Station

42 No Holiday: Murdering Creek, Australia

43 No Holiday: Auckland, Aotearoa

Africa

44 No Holiday: Madagascar

45 No Holiday: Manzini, Swaziland

46 No Holiday: Molapo, Botswana

47 No Holiday: Angola

48 Morogoro, Tanzania: African White Elephants (Not endangered)

49 Lake Turkana, Kenya: African White Elephants (Not endangered)

50 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: African White Elephants (Not endangered) Side Trip: The Political Monuments of Addis Ababa

51 Ugoli, Nigeria: African White Elephants (Not endangered)

52 Rwanda Genocide Outings: The Hotel of a Thousand Hills

53 Rwanda Genocide Outings II: A tour around Kigali

54 Rwanda Genocide Outings III: Kigali College, and then to the country for a different kind of lesson

55 Southern Sudan: The Rumbek Bookshop

56 Day 2 in Southern Sudan: Rumbek Business Center, Market and UN Office Side Trip: Southern Sudan: Rumbek Cathedral (and its crazy Bishop)

57 No Holiday: Mogadishu, Somalia

58 No Holiday: Asmara, Eritrea

59 Working No Holiday: Taoudenni, Mali

60 No Holiday: Libya

The Middle East

61 No Holiday: Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, Egypt

62 No Holiday: Erez Crossing (also known as: part of Palestine), Israel

63 No Holiday: Golan Heights, Syria

64 No Holiday: Baghdad, Iraq

65 No Holiday: United Arab Emirates

Europe

66 No Holiday: Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

67 No Holiday: Oswiecim, Poland

68 No Holiday: Copsa Mica, Romania

69 No Holiday: Berlin, Germany

70 Animal Cruelty Outings: Manganeses de la Polvorosa, Spain

71 Animal Cruelty Outings II: Catalonia, Spain

72 Animal Cruelty Outings III: Trondheim, Norway

73 No Holiday: The lovely Languedoc, The Da Vinci Trail

74 No Holiday: Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland, The Da Vinci Trail too

75 No Holiday: London, England

76 No Holiday: Menwith Hill, England

77 No Holiday: Gruinard, Scotland

78 No Holiday: Belfast, Ireland Side Trip: Rossport, Ireland, twinned with Ogoniland, Nigeria

79 No Holiday: Amsterdam, Holland

80 No Holiday: Luxembourg

Epilogue, Normandy, France

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