At the start of this task, I anticipated coloring in most everything as yellow. For one, I haven't been to too many places. For two, I can't afford to go very many places during this year. That meant I expected to color in most of the map as Yellow. As I started looking at the countries, though, I realized that there were a lot of places that I'd be happy never visiting. Don't get me wrong, if someone offered me a free trip to travel, I'd happily take it. I'd love to see the whole world. But as far as whether or not it would make me happy to not go somewhere... the world is too ridden with war to make some places less than desirable to visit. Here's a rather bad pic of the map I colored:
As you can see, much of the world is red. I'd love to visit some places in South America, Europe, a few in Africa, and Australia. I wouldn't mind visiting Asia, not at all, but I'd be just as happy not visiting those places. I have no doubts that they are beautiful and would enrich my life. However, I'm under no illusions that I'll be able to see the whole world, and so I needed to pare down the countries I'd really like to see. If I manage to visit all of my yellows, then I will definitely visit some of the reds.
Changes: Made me realize three things: 1. While I love traveling, I'd be content not seeing the whole world. This was a surprising thing to learn about myself. 2. I need to travel again soon. I miss it. It's been too long. 3. I need to refresh myself on world geography. More than once I had to google a map to see which countries were where prior to coloring.
