User:(WT-en) Dohnutman

Dohnutman's Wiki – About Me
I was born and raised in California, (Bay Area) and moved to Boston, Massachusetts to attend college. Met my wife and never moved back….

Travel Interests
Places: Countries, States, Cities, and Regions I love to visit or would love to visit. (These are also areas I will try to contribute Articles to.)

In the US



California – the Golden State
 * Bay Area – Home Sweet Home
 * California Delta – a.k.a the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta - Very hard area to photograph but a very fascinating landscape full of levees (most of the area is 15 feet above sea level with some areas below sea level), draw bridges, walnut grooves, and vineyards.
 * Half Moon Bay – Beach and surf city. Fun to explore Highway 92 and the Highway 1 (a.k.a the Pacific Coast Highway.)
 * Menlo Park – Not Menlo Park in NJ
 * Mountain View (California)
 * Palo Alto – a.k.a. "Shallow Alto" cause of the high yuppie and student populations, but still a neat city to explore.
 * San Francisco – love "the City" even though it can be a huge tourist trap.
 * San Jose (California)

Hawaii – Aloha! Also scoffing at you Cape Cod beaches!!
 * Big Island (Hawaii)
 * Kauai
 * Maui
 * Molokai
 * Oahu



Massachusetts – Pahk the Cah in the Yahd (Yes some people REALLY speak that way.)
 * Cape Cod
 * Boston
 * Greater Boston
 * MetroWest
 * Framingham – The reason Framingham is the largest "town" in MA is because they refuse to change the designation to city!
 * Natick
 * Newton and surrounding villages
 * Central Massachusetts
 * Shirley
 * Yarmouth (Massachusetts)

Nevada
 * Las Vegas – There is more to do in Vegas than just gamble. (No really there is.)

Oregon – Pronounced like Organ NOT Oro-Gone like the Chowdah-heads say :-) Washington & the Pacific Northwest (United States of America)
 * Portland
 * Vancouver (Washington)
 * Seattle

United States National Parks – I have a buddy whose mission is to see all the NPS parks by 2010. I hope to join him on some of those adventures.

'''The Caribbean & the North Atlantic – Scoff at you Cape Cod beaches!! Yes the water really is that blue, the sand that white, and heat that hot!'''
 * Aruba (2006)
 * Bahamas (Grand Bahama) (2007)
 * Curacao (2007)

Future Caribbean Trips on the Radar – Going to *try* to see 1 to 3 islands a year.


 * Bermuda
 * Puerto Rico


 * Anguilla
 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * Barbados
 * Bonaire
 * Cayman Islands
 * Cuba
 * Dominica
 * Dominican Republic
 * Grenada
 * Jamaica
 * Martinique
 * Montserrat
 * Netherlands Antilles – Saba
 * St Barthelemy
 * Saint Lucia
 * Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Saint Martin - 1 island, 2 countries! Want to see both sides - the French north Saint Martin & the Dutch south Sint Maarten
 * Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Trinidad and Tobago
 * Virgin Islands – US Virgin Islands – St. Thomas, St. John's & St. Croix. & the British Virgin Islands

North Atlantic
 * Islands in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
 * Abaco
 * Acklins
 * Andros
 * Berry Islands
 * Bimini
 * Cat Island
 * Crooked Island
 * Eleuthera
 * Exuma
 * Grand Bahama
 * Inagua
 * Long Island
 * Mayaguana
 * New Providence
 * Ragged Island
 * Rum Cay
 * San Salvador


 * Turks and Caicos Islands

The Caribbean side of – Central & South America – Joining in on the laughter of Cape Cod beaches :-)


 * Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula (Cancun)
 * Belize
 * Costa Rica
 * Honduras
 * Panama
 * Venezuela

The regions of the South Pacific [Oceania] – Yep - Scoffing at the Cape Cod beaches as well!!


 * American Samoa
 * Australia
 * Cook Islands
 * Federated States of Micronesia
 * French Polynesia (Tahiti)
 * Guam
 * Fiji
 * Marshall Islands
 * New Zealand
 * Papua New Guinea
 * Samoa
 * Solomon Islands
 * Tonga

The countries of Mediterranean Europe – Also Scoffing at the Cape Cod beaches as well!!

I can get the wife to brave it – East Asia & Southeast Asia
 * Cyprus
 * Greece
 * Italy
 * Malta
 * Monaco
 * Portugal
 * Spain
 * Turkey


 * China (Hong Kong)
 * Japan


 * Indonesia (Bali)
 * Malaysia
 * Philippines (Manila)
 * Singapore
 * Thailand
 * Vietnam

Canada, Mexico, Central, & South America as well as (Europe are on the radar too!)

(So many places, so little time and money :-)

Docent
What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? (Tri-lingual) 2 languages? (Bi-lingual) 1 language? (AMERICAN :-)

I volunteered to be a docent for the Bay Area, Cape Cod, & Caribbean (Areas where I have spent or plan to spend significant amounts of my life!)

Please feel free to contact me by email by using the "E-mail this user" link in the toolbox to the left. '''Include "Wikivoyage" in the subject line or I'm likely to chuck it as spam or junk :-)

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