I've been watching the tweets from Dave McClure's GeeksonaPlane tour of Japan and China - and it brought to mind the question of where in the world a group of geeky payments types would want to go to observe new and interesting developments and opportunities in the world of electronic payments? - Scott Loftesness

Perhaps a first stop at PayPal? - Scott Loftesness

Then off to San Francisco for a visit to Twitter? And a related stop at Wells Fargo to see all of their social media efforts up close? - Scott Loftesness

Next, to Marin County for visits to the mobile players: mFoundry, ClairMail? - Scott Loftesness

Maybe a swing over to the East Bay to visit AccountNow and Javelin for some unbanked/prepaid and consumer research inputs? - Scott Loftesness

Then a stop by Visa on the way to SFO. - Scott Loftesness

From SFO - to where in the world next? - Scott Loftesness

Larry Lebofsky writes: "after the bay area, next would be a puddle jumper to LA to visit green dot then take a tour of all the start up ISO's started by ex-CardService executives." - Scott Loftesness

@tjmazurek writes: Toronto (Guestlogix - Pay on Plane); Nigeria (Mobile Payments); Europe (Chip-N-Pin); India (Micropayments) - Scott Loftesness

Dave Glaser writes: Today they'd be in New York City at the W in Union Square for the 2nd Annual CyberSource NYC Customer Summit. - Scott Loftesness

If you are in a Bay area tour, don't forget SeerGate! Bringing banking payments to social networks, we can show you how the future of banking payments' architecture should look :) - Alicia Roisman Ismach

I also think that Brazil and its online banking system is a great destination, we can arrange a great tour there, who joins? I am in. - Alicia Roisman Ismach

Ah, I overlooked at stop at Zong Mobile Payments in Palo Alto! - Scott Loftesness

James Van Dyke writes: to the far east, to some mythical city recently visited by a conference speaker's brother-in-law's friend, who swore that everyone is paying for everything with a mobile phone. - Scott Loftesness

Charlie Jadallah writes: hmmm - geeks huh - how about Fresno, CA where the first merchant was signed up then to San Mateo, CA, where the fist data center was (basically a low end PC in todays world), on to Omaha, NE, for FDC's first headquarters, Amex in NYC....then - more later. - Scott Loftesness

Abe Kleinfeld writes: Avoid air travel and head to Starbucks, where having a Starbucks payment card now gets you free WiFi! - Scott Loftesness

Martin Haeberli at 8:53am June 11 Martin Haeberli writes: Kenya. Check out M-PESA. (For virtual tour, see the talk http://etech.blip.tv/#1878503 at OReilly ETEch this year). Also check out AITI: aiti.mit.edu Talk of the Nation in the last week or two had a "talk of the world" where they talked about payments and cellphones. South Africa was also cited as a great example - Scott Loftesness

Would be interested in South American countries Brazil, Columbia, Chile, Argentina... Asia: Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia... Africa: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa.... that's just a start.. :) - Albert Drouart

Count me in to help with the SF Bay Area, at least, and hopefully beyond. I've done some interesting things with Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America over the last three years and have some good contacts. - David Snyder