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Remember Hank Snow’s “I’ve been everywhere“?
I’ve been everywhere, man.
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the deserts bare, man.
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I’ve had my share, man.
I’ve been everywhere.
I’ve been to:
I’ve been everywhere, man.
Crossed the deserts bare, man.
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I’ve had my share, man.
I’ve been everywhere.
I’ve been to:
Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma,
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma,
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,
Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I’m a killer.
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.
Pulitzer Prize winning (it’s really only a matter of time..) journalists John William Flowers and Birgit Gift have been practicing for their incipient old age on a cruise ship, lurking off the coast of Greenland.
And looking at Air Greenland’s route map (yes, there IS such an airline and yes, they DID fly with them…), I couldn’t get Hank Snow’s song out of my head.
Except it went
I’ve been to:
Aappilattoq Aasiaat Akunnaaq Alluitsup
Ammassivik Arsuk Atammik Attu
Eqalugaarsuit Iginniarfik Ikamiut Ikerasaarsuk
Ikerasak Ikkatteq Ilimanaq Illorsuit
Ilulissat Innaarsuit Isortoq Itilleq
Itterajivit Ittoqqortoormiit Kangaamiut Kangaatsiaq
Kangerluk Kangerlussuaq Kangersuatsiaq Kangilinnguit
Kapisillit Kitsissuarsuit Kujalleq Kullorsuaq
Kulusuk Kuummiut Maniitsoq Moriusaq
Naajaat Nanortalik Napasoq Narsaq
Narsarmijit Narsarsuaq Niaqornaarsuk Niaqornat
Nuugaatsiaq Nuuk Nuussuaq Oqaatsut
Paamiut Pituffik Qaanaaq Qaarsut
Qaasuitsup Qaqortoq Qasigiannguit Qassiarsuk
Qassimiut Qeqertaq Qeqertarsuaq Qeqertarsuatsiaat
Qeqertat Qernertuarssuit Qullissat Saarloq
Saattut Saqqaq Sarfannguit Savissivik
Sermiligaaq Siorapaluk Sisimiut Tasiilaq
Tasiusaq Tiniteqilaaq Ukkusissat Upernavik
Kujalleq Uummannaq Uunarteq
Eqalugaarsuit Iginniarfik Ikamiut Ikerasaarsuk
Ikerasak Ikkatteq Ilimanaq Illorsuit
Ilulissat Innaarsuit Isortoq Itilleq
Itterajivit Ittoqqortoormiit Kangaamiut Kangaatsiaq
Kangerluk Kangerlussuaq Kangersuatsiaq Kangilinnguit
Kapisillit Kitsissuarsuit Kujalleq Kullorsuaq
Kulusuk Kuummiut Maniitsoq Moriusaq
Naajaat Nanortalik Napasoq Narsaq
Narsarmijit Narsarsuaq Niaqornaarsuk Niaqornat
Nuugaatsiaq Nuuk Nuussuaq Oqaatsut
Paamiut Pituffik Qaanaaq Qaarsut
Qaasuitsup Qaqortoq Qasigiannguit Qassiarsuk
Qassimiut Qeqertaq Qeqertarsuaq Qeqertarsuatsiaat
Qeqertat Qernertuarssuit Qullissat Saarloq
Saattut Saqqaq Sarfannguit Savissivik
Sermiligaaq Siorapaluk Sisimiut Tasiilaq
Tasiusaq Tiniteqilaaq Ukkusissat Upernavik
Kujalleq Uummannaq Uunarteq
You Must Be From Away 