About The Country Club

The Country Club exists to divert its members by recording and comparing members’ travels. There are 195 UN Member States/Official Observor, and we are trying to visit them all. Check our progress on the Club Ladder, to the right, or by clicking the link for the List of Countries Visited below that. Curious how we count? Click The Country Club By-Laws link.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mr Warshauer vs Mr Heart

Undoubtedly, one of the great battles in The Country Club is for fifth place. Mr Heart holds it now, but senior Country Club officials have indicated that Mr Warshauer is poised for an attack in the upcoming week. Stay tuned!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Founder Founders

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Chapman
To: Greeley, David P.

David, you are one of the very last to gain the capability to post items to the Country Club website. What's up?

From: Greeley, David P. (WS) Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:36 AM
To: Steven Chapman

I tried and I was told that opening this account from my computer
violates Merck policy 37 and that access has been denied. I guess you
didn't think of this when you set up the system.
I will try to open up an account from my wifes computer but that will
take me a couple of days.

Members: Want to Post Something to the Country Club Website?

Simply:

1. go to www.gmail.com and open up a free gmail account

2. send your secretary the address; you will then receive permission to post to the website

3. that permission will be sent to your gmail account (give me a day to do this). Open up the email from Blogger and there will be a link in it. Click on that.

4. go then to the country club website and click on "sign in" on the upper right.
you'll then be able to blog with the rest of us!

Four of our members have already done this. Don't be the last!

VTY, Your Secretary

Monday, February 19, 2007

OHHHHH-MAN

Marriage has, surprisingly, accelerated an accumulation of countries. We just returned from a lovely 5 days in Arabia, full of scuba, sand, and sun in Oman. Filled with wonder, I kept exclaiming "O Man" at every amazing vista, and gurgled it to myself as we finned past 100lb sea turtles. Flavia has organized a trip to tick off 3 new countries this summer. This notice is merely an "ameuse geule". Must admit, however, that I'm not too happy about the position of our Founder's right hand on my 19 year old niece in Rio.....
Yours in search of a century. DANA

Sunday, February 18, 2007




Having the obligatory drink in Zanzibar, which unfortunately is not on the UN country list.
Oh well, there are some compensations for being here.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Correspondence from Our Founder, 17 February 2007

This is too good to be true. Not only is it my first blog (now I know what it means) but it is a work of art of our esteemed Secretary, Steven Chapman. I think a reunion is called for in a country that none of us has been to, to celebrate the Club and to salute our Secretary for the great work he has done. In the meantime, thanks Mr Secretary and have a great weekend (so long as it is not in a new country).

Correspondence from Mr Warshauer, 17 February 2007

Huzzah!! This blog looks great! Thank you, Mr.Secretary. Makes me want to get on a plane...
-Will

Friday, February 16, 2007

Proceedings: February 2007

Dear Members,

Welcome to the new face of The Country Club Proceedings! Please take a moment to review the List of Countries Visited (see link on your right) to check if your total is up to date and, if not, then simply click on the link on the upper right hand corner and post an update! (I'll update the spreadsheet and Club Ladder shortly thereafter). You will be asked for your username, which is the email to which Club Correspondence is usually sent; send me a note if that is not obvious and I'll update you.

Let's make our Proceedings worth checking! Post often. Photos encouraged.

Secretary,
The Country Club

Correspondence from Mr Warshauer, Autumn 2006

Mr Secretary,

I am pleased to add Belgium to my list. Although I found Brussels to be a bit dull, I was pleased to do the CC needful onboard the Eurostar train, which I can highly recommend. I had a glass of nice dry champagne while the Belgian countryside sped by.....

Correspondence from Mr van der Zwaan, July 2006

Dear Secretary,

Back from my Southern African journey, I am happy to report to you that I have tremendously enjoyed my Castle beer in Johannesburg, my Stellenbosch in Cape Town, my cocktails in Maputo, and my beers of local production in the Sigunye Country Club (believe it or not), Swaziland, and in Malealea, Lesotho.

In other words: 66 !

Cheers,

Bob

Correspondence from Mr Rhodes, July 2006

Gentlemen,

Truely impressive indeed. I was smugly drinking a cold one in Budapest 5 days ago (1 point) thinking that the wine in Slovenia the week before had been better (1 point) contemplating the vinticulture of Moldova (1 point) think, well 3 countries in 3 weeks, not bad. But now I can see
why KLM has a zwaan as its mascot! A true English never accepts defeat ‑ but respects a worthy adversary. What is Bob's TTG, is the great man himself aware of the lurking danger!

Have a great time in brazil.

Best to all

Grant.

p.s. Incidentally I am currently building a moldova wine collection for testing in the last few weeks of august.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007



Ms van Herksen and Your Secretary in the Bahamas