I've travelled quite a bit, but I have paid for very little of it myself. I'm appreciative to those who have made it possible. Most of it has not been for work/school.
Professional travel:
LIGO Scientific Collaboration Meeting, CalTech, Pasadena, California, 2009
Gravitational Waves Summer School, South Padre Island, Texas, University of Texas Brownsville, 2008
20th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2017
LIGO Livingston Detector from University of Minnesota as a Science Monitor, Livingston, Louisiana, 2010
Soudan Mine, Northern Minnesota, while working with MINOS (twice I think), 2003, another time around 2006ish
I have also been to Homestake Mine but not inside it, and that was not for professional purposes, although I have worked on data from it.
Large Binocular Telescope while it was under construction, Arizona, while at Ohio State, 2006
Kitt Peak, Arizona, while at Ohio State, 2006
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Plaskett Telescope, but as a tourist, on a cruise, to Canada, although it was awesome, 2023 I think (tour is called Center of the Universe for those interested)
Activities related trips out of state in high school or younger:
Sony Student Project Abroad trip to Japan in high school, 1999 (I think), for students interested in engineering and studying some Japanese (which I was doing through the Concordia Language Villiage Mori No Ikke, badly, with my sister and cousin, for many summers), I was selected from MN by Senator Wellstone
American Regional Mathematics League state math team Maroon Team and individual competitor 1997-2000, University of Iowa region site for the National Competition
Math Team, Junior High, 8th grade, National Competition, Washington DC, representing Minnesota as the person who took 2nd place in the state (4 person team with a 5th place alternate)
Northwestern University, Chicago, Modern Physics Summer Camp, 1999 I think
Travel to visit family or (former) in-laws:
Japan
Georgia
California
Oregon
Texas
Michigan
Illinois
International travel (non-cruise, non-family):
Australia, 1993
England, Scotland, and Wales, 1990
England and Scotland, 2006 I think
France, 2005
France, 2002 I think
Italy, 2003 I think
Germany, Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, 2004 I think. It is entirely possible I have the dates horribly wrong on the 2002, 2003, 2004 travel
Canada 1992 I think but I may have this date horribly wrong
Canada 1999 I think but I may have this date horribly wrong
St Johns Island 2000
St Lucia 2007
This is not international but I have also been to Alaska and Hawaii on non cruise travel, and I think those were roughly 1994ish and 1995ish, though I could have the dates off by a few years as well.
National Parks and Monuments:
Yellowstone (3 times I think)
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Parts of the Appalachian National Trail
Sequoia
Badlands
Chief Crazy Horse
Mount Rushmore
Dinosaur tracks
Devil's Tower
Jamestown
NASA in Florida
NASA in Houston
US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville
National Quilt MuseumÂ
Sears Tower
World Trade Center (as a child)
World One
Statue of Liberty
Museums in Washington DC
Art Museums everywhere
Space Needle
Chihuly Museum
Arch in St Louis
Times Square
The ocean, lakes, rivers, on steam boats on rivers
Boston Harbor
Planetariums, Aquariums, Zoos
Mardi Gras
Jackson Square
Bourbon Street
Art festivals
Farmers Markets
Cherry and the spoon (got married in that garden to my ex husband)
Mountains, though less so
Endless endless endless corn fields and wheat fields
I have milked a cow once
I have picked apples and pumpkins and chosen and helped saw down Christmas trees
The White House (no I am not a politician)
The Library of Congress
The Lincoln and Washington Memorial
The Vietnam and Korean War Memorials
Some random tombs of random Presidents and random battlefields, no, not as a soldier
Memphis, idk why
Many airplanes, no I am not a pilot
I have never seen a rocket launch