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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
oh ffs, I’ve been to Queenstown NZ. So now I’m only missing an X.
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
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.)
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.