Jeffsetter Travel · Amanda and Jeff Sauer
Where we've been
Every place on the Travelers' Century Club list we've been to, the places we've called home, the cities we've written about and the hotels that earned a MICHELIN Key. Wine regions are our sweet spot, but we'll go just about anywhere. Pick a country and you'll find everything we wrote while we were there. That's more than 400 stories so far.
78
of 330 Travelers' Century Club territories
64
UN member countries
37
MICHELIN stars at our table
101
cities we've blogged about
39
MICHELIN Keys collected
15
places we've called home
78 of 100 toward Travelers' Century Club membership
22 to go
We count the way the Travelers' Century Club does. The club counts places like Hawaii, Alaska and Scotland on their own, so our 78 works out to 64 countries if you go by the UN list.
How it started
Jeff's first passport came at 21, in 2003, to film a documentary in Kenya. The film was nominated for an Emmy. It didn't win, but he caught the travel bug. His next goal was to reach every inhabited continent before he turned 30, and he made it. Number six was Australia in March 2011, on the trip where he proposed to Amanda. Antarctica is still on the list, and we want to get there soon.
The map
Tap a country for the receipts
Country guidesArgentina · Aruba · Australia · Austria · British Virgin Islands · Cambodia · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Cook Islands · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · French Polynesia · Germany · Greece · Hong Kong · Hungary · Indonesia · Italy · Laos · Maldives · Mauritius · Mexico · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Norway · Peru · Portugal · Qatar · Singapore · South Africa · Spain · St. Lucia · Sweden · Switzerland · Taiwan · Thailand · Turkey · U.S. Virgin Islands · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · United States · Uruguay
Where we've lived
Places we've called home
We've traveled the world for more than a decade, and there's still no place like home. These are the places we called home for a month or more. We bought groceries, got haircuts, did laundry and took cooking classes. For a little while, we were part of the neighborhood. In 2015 we sold most of what we owned and spent four and a half years as nomads. Chiang Mai is the longest we've lived anywhere outside the US.
- St. Paul, MinnesotaWhere Jeff was born and raised
- San Francisco, California2014-15
- Maui, Hawaii2015
- New Zealand2015
- Italy2015 and 2022 · Piemonte and Tuscany
- Buenos Aires, Argentina2016
- Australia2016
- Chiang Mai, Thailand2016-17 and 2018-19
- Porto, Portugal2017
- Bali, Indonesia2017
- Sebastopol, California2019-20
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina2020
- Fort Myers, Florida2021
- Spain2021 and 2026 · Barcelona, the Basque coast and Salamanca
- VirginiaNow
Home today is Virginia.
Since we got married in 2012
Our bucket list
22 of 40 crossed off
When we got married in 2012, we each wrote a bucket list of the places we most wanted to see. Here is where it stands. Every place we crossed off is dated from our own records, with a photo from the trip wherever we published one.
"I revisited that list this week and 30 places remain." Jeff on the One Way Podcast, August 2015.
Jeff's list
10 of 20 done
- LisbonPortugalCrossed off Apr 2017
- MaldivesMaldivesCrossed off Jan 2019Crossed off in January 2019. We have been back since.
- BaliIndonesiaCrossed off Oct 2017
- Machu PicchuPeruCrossed off Jan 2016
- Easter IslandChileStill on the list
- NorwayNorwayCrossed off Sep 2016
2016 - RussiaRussiaStill on the list
- SwitzerlandSwitzerlandCrossed off Mar 2015
2015 - Myanmar (Bagan)MyanmarStill on the listWe have walked across the Myanmar border from Thailand. Bagan is still to go.
- BotswanaBotswanaStill on the list
- VietnamVietnamStill on the list
- TanzaniaTanzaniaStill on the list
- Greek islandsGreeceCrossed off Jul 2018
- MadagascarMadagascarStill on the list
- Great Wall of ChinaChinaStill on the listChina is done (2026). The Great Wall is still to go.
- IcelandIcelandCrossed off Jun 2019
- CroatiaCroatiaCrossed off Jul 2024
- AlbaniaAlbaniaStill on the list
- New GuineaPapua New GuineaStill on the list
- TaiwanTaiwanCrossed off Nov 2018
Amanda's list
12 of 20 done
- Belize (Blue Hole)BelizeStill on the list
- MendozaArgentinaCrossed off 2016
- PalauPalauStill on the list
- HealdsburgUnited StatesCrossed off Aug 2014
2015 - DenmarkDenmarkCrossed off Sep 2014
2016 - AmsterdamNetherlandsCrossed off Apr 2016Jeff was there first, in 2007.
- GreeceGreeceCrossed off Jul 2018Jeff went first in 2013. Amanda crossed it off in 2018.
- St. LuciaSt. LuciaCrossed off Mar 2024
- MadagascarMadagascarStill on the list
- GrenadinesSt. Vincent and the GrenadinesStill on the listGrenada is done (2024). The Grenadines are still to go.
- BoliviaBoliviaStill on the list
- GrenadaGrenadaCrossed off Mar 2024
- Canary IslandsSpainStill on the list
- IcelandIcelandCrossed off Jun 2019
- NorwayNorwayCrossed off Sep 20162016
- SlovakiaSlovakiaCrossed off Feb 2018
- St. PetersburgRussiaStill on the list
- Swiss AlpsSwitzerlandCrossed off Mar 20152015
- SalzburgAustriaCrossed off Mar 2015
2015 - BermudaBermudaStill on the list
18 still on the list.
The next generation
Jack of all travels
Jack has been to 23 countries and territories so far. Finland and Estonia are coming up in 2026, then Hawaii in 2027.
North America (2)
- Mexico
- United States
Caribbean (7)
- Bahamas
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- St. Lucia
- U.S. Virgin Islands
Europe & Mediterranean (8)
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Italy
- Montenegro
- Portugal
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Switzerland
Middle East (1)
- Saudi Arabia
Asia (5)
- China
- Laos
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Thailand
Every place, in plain text
78 territories, by region
Grouped the way the Travelers' Century Club groups them. The year listed is our first trip there, from our own records. These counts are the two of us only. Our contributing writers cover Hawaii and RV travel, and their trips are not counted here.
North America (4)
- 2006
- 2013
- 2009
- 2009
Central America (2)
- 2016
- 2015
Caribbean (9)
- 2016
- 2024
- 2011
- 2023
- 2023
- 2024
- 2016
- 2024
- 2011
South America (5)
- 2010
- 2025
- 2010
- 2016
- 2016
Atlantic Ocean (2)
- 2017
- 2019
Europe & Mediterranean (27)
- 2015
- 2007
- 2024
- 2011
- 2014
- 2014
- 2016
- 2016
- 2012
- 2015
- 2013
- 2014
- 2017
- 2013
- 2024
- 2007
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2006
- 2018
- 2018
- 2007
- 2016
- 2015
- 2013
- 2018
Africa (3)
- 2003
- 2017
- 2014
Middle East (5)
- 2015
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2024
Indian Ocean (2)
- 2019
- 2012
Asia (13)
- 2017
- 2017
- 2026
- 2014
- 2017
- 2018
- 2024
- 2016
- 2017
- 2017
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
Pacific Ocean (6)
- 2011
- 2013
- 2013
- 2015
- 2015
- 2011
Missing a destination that interests you?
Let us know. We may not have been there yet, but that's how the list grows. Amanda plans trips for a living as a Virtuoso travel advisor with Pique Travel Design, and her partner network probably has.