WARREN, Ohio-This is it. I graduate on Saturday and my Travelin’ the Globe columns are now coming to an end.

Instead of ending my columns for The BG News with complaints about being in Ohio or questions about what I will do next, I think a roundup of my best memories (and not necessarily my fondest) from the past year, which includes my time in New York City, is in order. Here they are in chronological order: Spending as many nights as I could watching the sun set behind the Financial District from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Learning about the lottery system for tickets to Broadway musicals. My first win was for ‘In the Heights.’ I was most excited to win a ticket to ‘Wicked’, with ‘Rent’ as a close second. Hearing the New York Philharmonic play Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812 Overture’ on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Photographing the water lilies at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the roses and lilies at the New York Botanical Garden. Eating the best Rum Raisin ice cream I have ever had at Coney Island. Singing, dancing and drinking at Oktoberfest. Enrolling in Czech class. The first word I learned: smrt, which means ‘dead.’ Acquiring a free, but junky bicycle in Salzburg that didn’t have properly working breaks and a leaky back tire, but nonetheless became quite trusted and true. Climbing down the Untersberg mountain (1972 meters) and getting lost mere feet from the end of the trail. Taking my first train ride to a non-German-speaking country (Italy) and touring Venice with my friend Sammy. I went for the glass culture on Murano and wasn’t disappointed. Attending my first Cardiac Move concert in Vienna, and then seeing them perform a second time with Ich + Ich at the Obertauern ski resort opening. Being beaten by the Krampusse (scary, hairy monsters that beat misbehaving children) at the Krampus Walk in St. Leonhard, Austria, in preparation for St. Nicholas Day. Spending my Christmas holidays in Romania with my roommate and bravely trying Romanian foods. Seeing the Elgin Marbles, a group of classical Greek marble sculptures belonging to the Parthenon, in the British Museum, and then ironically, one week later, seeing the Parthenon with copies of its own marbles. Watching London shut down as it received a record six inches of snow while I was a visitor. Spending the night in the Dublin airport when an inch or so of snow led to the cancellation of all flights. Walking alone in the Agora in Athens on a 65-degree day in February and then climbing the Acropolis. Losing my camera’s lens cap at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. Cringing and being scared every time a dog would follow my friends and me in Santorini, one of which followed us as we climbed a mountain and waited for us as we ate lunch in a restaurant. Almost being stranded on Santorini because our ferry was cancelled. Snowboarding in Upper Austria and later skiing in the Austrian Alps. Enrolling in fencing class, which proved to be one of the best decisions I have ever made, as I made a wonderful group of German-speaking friends whom I did not want to leave. Showing my parents around Salzburg, the Lake District, Munich, and Nuremburg and acting like a tourist and a tour guide at the same time. Visiting Delft, Netherlands, the hometown of one of my favorite painter, Johannes Vermeer. Seeing Vermeer’s masterpieces, ‘View of Delft ‘and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring,’ in the same room in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. Being in tulip heaven in Lisse, Netherlands, the home of Keukenhof, the world’s largest flower gardens, and acre after acre of tulip and hyacinth fields. Touring the Hallein, Austria, salt mine in horribly awful, hooded, white suits with my friend Katy and her friend Lydia when they visited from England. Watching a homeless man steal a friend of mine’s purse in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Seeing ‘Spring Awakening’ in German in Vienna with my friend Jennica. Then we headed to the Life Ball, a benefit event for AIDS research, where we saw Katy Perry perform. Arriving in Dubrovnik, Croatia, without any problems after an eight-hour train ride and a 10-hour bus ride. Finally enjoying a beach in season in Dubrovnik and later jumping off rocks into the Adriatic Sea. Eating the best bacon cheeseburger I have ever had at The Bird in Berlin. Baking cupcakes for my German-speaking friends and treating them to a small bit of American culture.

And last, but not least, something I did throughout the year, but my final visits were the most memorable: Eating, drinking and reveling in a wonderful life in Salzburg at the Augustiner brewery and beer garden.