port of call

port of call (plural ports of call)

1. (nautical) any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies
2. (figuratively) A place visited.
   • 2002, Phil Cousineau, Robert A Johnson, Coincidence Or Destiny?: Stories of Synchronicity That Illuminate Our Lives

     My first port of call was the home of an old friend of my mother's, an American woman who'd married a French man.