I am originally from Lévis, Quebec and I currently live in Montreal, Quebec.
I have traveled all across Canada, except Newfoundland and Labrador and the three territories. I've been in 38 of the US states so far, and I'm only missing Rhode Island east of the Mississippi (although technically I have been in Connecticut, I went through it on the Vermonter, but I haven't set foot on it yet). Of the 38 states, my favorites include California, Colorado, Kentucky, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.
My favorite places include, in no particular order, of any size and for no reason in particular: Alsace, Cape May, Bruges, Ljubljana, Chicago, Edinburgh, Charleston, New Orleans, Percé, Savannah, Paris, New York, Washington, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Venice, Santa Fe, Arles, Watkins Glen, Olomouc, Woodstock, and London.
I have created most of the original Quebec Routes shells on Wikipedia. I'm glad that over time people have perfected them.
I am a big fan of VIA Rail and Amtrak. With VIA Rail, I have so far traveled on the Corridor only, Montreal-Quebec, Montreal-Ottawa, and Montreal-Toronto. With Amtrak, I have been on the Adirondack between Montreal and New York City, Northeast Regional on a Baltimore to New York City and a Philadelphia to New York City, the Vermonter between St. Albans and New York City, the Maple Leaf between New York City and Niagara Falls, NY, the Crescent between New Orleans and Birmingham, and the Empire Builder between St. Paul and Chicago. I have also travelled extensively by train in Europe, including the marvellous TGV trains in France, the very efficient ICE trains in Germany, the sometimes late and sometimes on-strike regional trains in Italy and France, the cheap Belgian trains, and the not-so-quick Slovenian trains (actually similar speed as to what we have in Canada and USA.)
I have visited 22 countries so far. Canada, United States, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Grenada, Barbados, Dominica, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Vatican, Monaco, Greece and Cyprus.
