I have trouble picturing things geographically.  It runs in the family.  We are all just geographically inept.  So, because of this, I decided to actually look up where each country I'll be going to is, so I have a real idea of where I will be traveling to.  Then I decided that I wanted a map with just those countries highlighted, so I could be even more clear on exactly where I'll be going, but I had to make my own map for that.  And then that map looked really cool, so I kept building on it, and this is where I got.  Something about actually being able to see where it is I'll be going made it so much more real and exciting.  I figured I would share it too, in case other people are as geographically challenged as I am.