10 July 2026

Blog Readers from the World

Just hit the 204-country mark this week, with an unknown reader visiting the blog site from Equatorial Guinea.

The world map here shows where all my blog’s readers have come from. Notable exceptions include Turkmenistan and a few African countries.

Thanks to Larry Mason for helping me with the WordPress editor when I was stuck.

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7 July 2026

I am finally hanging up my boots with this game

Many moons back, my friend Mita Basu had introduced me to this game – travle.earth. The whole idea is to travel from Country A to Country B by crossing only land borders. There are some quirks in the game – It thinks of Siachen Glacier as a country, it does not think you can cross from Morocco to Western Sahara by land, and for some reason, it will not let me go from Poland to Russia directly, although I have been to their land border myself (exclave of Kaliningrad).

But I have now reached the 1000 game mark without failing once. And I am ready to move on to my next geography game. First, I have to dig through my messages from Mita. About a month ago, she sent me another game that I haven’t opened yet!

If you want to learn about country boundaries, this is a great game to try.

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