# Where have you been, alphabetically? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100 "2017-01-14T11:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/41 "2017-01-15T18:44:04Z")
Atlanta, Georgia, USA Burbank, California, USA Chicago, Illinois, USA Denver, Colorado, USA Effingham, Illinois, USA Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA Grand, Oklahoma, USA Havana, Illinois, USA Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Joplin, Missouri, USA Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida, USA Macon, Georgia, USA Nashville, Tennessee, USA Orlando, Florida, USA Potosi, Missouri, USA Quincy, Illinois, USA Rogers, Arkansas, USA San Francisco, California, USA Taylorville, Illinois, USA Urbana, Illinois, USA Valdosta, Georgia, USA Washington, D.C., USA X - can’t think of any places Y - can’t think of any places Zanesville, Ohio, USA ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/42 "2017-01-16T11:22:18Z")
Amsterdam, Netherlands Barcelona, Spain Cologne, Germany Didim, Turkey Evian, France Florence, Italy Genoa, Italy Helsinki, Finland Ixelles, Belgium Jalhay, Belgium Knossos, Greece London, UK Moscow, Russia Nice, France Oran, Algeria Paris, France Quévy, Belgium (possibly just passing through) Ramsgate, England Stockholm, Sweden Toronto, Canada Uppsala, Sweden Vannes, France Waterloo, Belgium Xhendelesse, Belgium (possibly just passing through) Yvoir, Belgium Zaventem, Belgium ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/43 "2017-01-16T12:17:17Z")
Without moving too far: Arguedas, Navarre Barañáin, Navarre Cintruénigo, Navarre Dicastillo, Navarre Elgorriaga, Navarre Fitero, Navarre Goñi, Navarre Huarte-Araquil, Navarre Isaba, Navarre Jaurrieta, Navarre K Lumbier, Navarre Murillo el Cuende, Navarre Noáin, Navarre Olite, Navarre Pamplona, Navarre Q Roncesvalles, Navarre Sabiñánigo, Navarre Tafalla, Navarre Uribe, Navarre Villafranca, Navarre W Xabier, Navarre Yesa, Navarre Zubiri, Navarre I’ve been in a bus that went through Kansas and actually set foot in Wilmington, but those are further out… 😃 I’ve also been to Quinto Real, Navarre, but that’s not a town. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/44 "2017-01-16T15:25:36Z")
Augusta, Maine Burlington, VT Charlestown, MA Dixfield, Maine Echo Lake, NH Fairfield, Maine Georgetown, MA Harlem, NY Illinois Jackman, Maine Kingfield, Maine Lake St. George, Maine Mendoza, Argentina Norfolk County, MA Orono, Maine Port Clyde, Maine Quebec City, Quebec Raymond, Maine San Jose, Costa Rica Topsham, Maine Utah Valparaiso, Chile Washington County, VT X-None Yreka, CA Zakim Bridge, Boston, MA - Cable-stayed bridge that overlooks TD Garden ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/45 "2017-01-16T16:21:54Z")
Aleppo, Syria Beirut, Lebanon Colombo, Sri Lanka Doha, Qatar Elbasan, Albania Frankfurt, Germany Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Hargeisa, Somaliland Istanbul, Turkey Johannesburg, South Africa Kigali, Rwanda Luang Prabang, Laos Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Nukus, Uzbekistan Omdurman, Sudan Pyongyang, North Korea Qom, Iran Riga, Latvia Sana’a, Yemen Tbilisi, Georgia Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic Victoria, Seychelles Wadi Rum, Jordan Xewkija, Malta Yerevan, Armenia Zahedan, Iran ---
**Author:** ![JHBoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@JHBoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JHBoom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/46 "2017-01-16T18:40:39Z")
Went for the domestic + international assortment… Atlantic Beach, NC Belle Chasse, LA Cancun, Mexico Dubai, UAE Elsmere, DE Fairbanks, AK Gallarate, Italy Honolulu, HI Irvine, CA Johnson City, NY Kaiserslautern, Germany Lajes, Portugal Moron, Spain Naples, Italy Okinawa, Japan Penndel, PA Quebec Ronda, Spain Souda, Crete Taormina, Italy Utapao, Thailand (stretching a bit here…) Vaernes, Norway Waikiki, HI Xcaret, Mexico (stretching a bit more…) Yardley, PA Zaragoza, Spain ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/47 "2017-01-16T18:47:06Z")
I get every letter except X — unless “X marks the spot” counts. :smack: Z is for Zürich (but don’t ask me exactly what I was doing there. For a brief period I toured computer rooms with hard-to-fix mainframes all over Europe.) Two of the harder letters are due to visits to my grandmother’s homes: Idaho Springs, Colorado Youngtown, Arizona ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/48 "2017-01-17T11:13:05Z")
oh ffs, I’ve been to Queenstown NZ. So now I’m only missing an X. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/49 "2017-01-20T18:03:32Z")
I started traveling a lot more in the past decade, so I tried to stick to the most interesting places I’ve been to since then - except for Q and Z. Zion National Park was the obvious “Z”, but I visited it long ago as a teenager. I had a hard time thinking of a Q place at all. The Queensboro Bridge not being particularly interesting to me, as I cross it hundreds of times a year. Alcatraz Island, SF, CA Belfast, Ireland Caernarfon Castle, Wales Dublin, Ireland Edinburgh, Scotland Forbidden City, Beijing, China Great Wall of China House on the Rock, Wisconsin Isle of Skye, Scotland Louvre Museum, Paris Montreal, Canada Niagara Falls, NY/Ontario Orlando, Florida Pompeii, Italy Queensboro (59th St.) Bridge, NYC Rome, Italy Sherwood Forest, England Tombstone, Arizona Uffizi Galery, Florence, Italy Vatican City Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, CA Xi’an, China Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Zion National Park, Utah ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/50 "2017-01-20T23:10:59Z")
I’m not much of a traveler by choice, so a lot of these are pretty close to home for me. There are a few outliers, though. Ambergris Caye, Belize Broken Arrow, OK Copenhagen, Denmark Denver, CO El Paso, TX Flagstaff, AZ Gallup, NM Hattiesburg, MS Indianapolis, IN Jackson, MS Kansas City, MO Lafayette, LA Montreal, Québec, Canada Natchitoches, LA Opelika, AL Point Blank, TX Quartzsite, AZ Ronneby, Sweden San Francisco, CA Thule, Greenland Union City, OK (I was tempted to amplify the previous entry as “\*Ultima \*Thule”, but that’s a point of some dispute. :)) Vidalia (two of them) Winslow, AZ X (I got nothing.) Yucca, AZ Zachary, LA (Also Zzyzx, CA, but only in passing.) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100/51 "2017-01-21T02:14:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I can hit most of them in my home state. > > Akron, OH > Bay Village, OH > Cleveland, OH > Dayton, OH > Euclid, OH > Fairview Park, OH > Garfield Heights, OH > Hinkley, OH > Independence, OH > Johnstown, PA > Kent, OH > Lakewood, OH > Medina, OH > North Olmsted, OH > Ohio > Parma, OH > Quebec, Canada > Rocky River, OH > Sandusky, OH > Toledo, OH > University Heights, OH > Valley View, OH > Westlake, OH > Xenia, OH > Youngstown, OH > Zanesville, OH > > It looks like there’s also a Jackson, OH, but I’ve never been there, and I can’t find an in-state Q. Having been born and raised in Ohio, the list is almost exactly the same for me, too - just change the J to Jamestown, VA and the O to Orrville, OH and that’ll do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been-alphabetically/777100.md?page=2)