GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

Me England ( Canterburry and London ), France ( Paris ), Switzerland ( at the Alps for skiing ), Turkey ( at Istanbul which is almost near to me, I have gone there with the car ) and Egypt ( Cairo ).

UK (London yeah, worked there, loved the city!), Schotland (Dundee, worked there as well, detox after), Quatar, Germany, France (many many times), St. Maarten, Aruba, Virgin Islands (Saint John/Saint Croix), Cancun, Mazatlan, Acapulco, Punta Cana, Puerto Rico, the US of course (RI, NY, WA, CA, FL, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, Smokey Mountains, Nashville etc), the Greek islands, etc. etc. these last were all from work - I sell timeshares

I have a rule on whether or not I've been to a country. I must have been there at least 24 hours and left the airport.

49 out of 50 states
canada (4 provinces)

mexico (2 states)
belize
guatemala
honduras

japan
china
singapore
indonesia
philippines
korea
taiwan
malaysia

egypt
united arab emirates
india

england
russia (2 states)
spain
italy
greece

bahamas
jamaica
puerto rico
saint thomas
saint maarten
british virgin island
us virgin islands
saint lucia
barbados
saint maarten
antigua

Looks like a lot of traveling huh (I think that's it)? Well all of that traveling and I've only crossed the equator once. I also have circled the globe on one trip traveling over 22,400 miles and the closest I got to the equator was about 300 or 400 miles. I have been inside the arctic circle twice.

kat

I have never left the US except to go just across the broder into Canada. I've never seen the Grand Canyon. I've lived in three states.

So, ummmm ... you win?

ok lets see ...england ...where i live .....
wales
scotland
france,
Belgium
.holland.
Luxemborg
switzerland
Germany
Austria
Italy
San Marino
Andorra
Spain
Denmark
corsica
Greece
Cyprus
Poland
Tunisia
Morocco
Egypt
Why doesnt it suprise me that most americans have never travelled outside of america ?

....asks a european who has never travelled out of Europe..

Canada,Vietnam,Hong Kong, Wake Island, Phillipines,Japan.

well if you count africa as europe

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Asia:

Japan
Thailand


Europe:

Norway
Sweden
Finland
Faroe Islands
Denmark
Scotland
England
Wales
N.Ireland
France
Spain
Madeira(Portugal)
Canary Islands(Spain)
Belguim
Switzerland
Italy
San Marino
Monaco
Liechtenstein
Slovenia
Luxembourg
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Turkey
Greece
Cyprus
Croatia
Serbia(Yugoslavia)
Austria - My favourite country
Germany

N.America:

Canada (Ontario, Quebec)

USA - 24 States (Florida, Oregon, Washington, California, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, NY, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey)

Well, Natalie. First of all, the entirety of Europe is smaller than the United States. Traveling to one state here is roughly equivalent to traveling to another country there. I would love to travel more, but, don't have the money to get me to a different continent and have a train take me to every country.

As far as this continent, I have traveled around it quite a bit, but haven't seen even half of it. I have been to eighteen of the fifty states, Canada, the Bahamas, and Mexico several times. Mexico is only a couple hours and a few hundred dollars away, so we have gone there a few times.

The only additional country I have been to is Thailand. I would absolutely love to see more of the world and even live abroad (or go to school). The problem is having the money to do it. I can't leave school even for a few months or all of my loans will go into repayment. I have looked in to study abroad and the cost is about $25-$35,000 per semester almost anywhere. Such is life here!

Hey Nats. If I post all the countries I have been to your travels would seem puny by comparison and So would Dagny's. Europeans are so provincial. If I added the 48 out of fifty states I have been to then the total would easily top 100 not to mention places like Greenland, Guam and other territories that are not technically countries. Now I also think it would be fair to add Canadian provinces instead of just saying Canada because Canadian provinces are each about the size of Europe. In fact we have counties in Florida that are bigger than some European countries and there are 67 counties in this state all of which I have been to. Georgia has 101 counties if I recall correctly. We could play this silly game ad infinitum.

I am a member of the million mile club. Any others traveled more than a million miles in their life? I did it before I was 35 years old Nats.

Well Deena. Your states share much the same culture and all blur into one another mostly. In Europe, you're talking about vastly differant culture and language in the space of say 15 miles...not to mention all the regional cultures and languages and dialects that never made it into a country.

You are just a poor looser. You have traveled through a few of our states but you have only spent more than a few hours in 3 of them. They are as different as France, Spain and Germany when you are talking about Northeast, West, Central Southeast, Deep south, Jersey etc. Even in Florida there is a huge cultural difference between LaBelle and Lauderdale. And if you would like to spend some time in Parts of Louisiana or the hills of Tennessee I doubt you could understand much that is even spoken.

A redneck is a redneck by any name...shh, I'm not allowed to say anything anymore.

Looser? is that how they spell Loser in here abouts.

United States
England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
France
Belgium
Italy
Canada
Mexico

Why travel to a place that most of Our grandparents left because it was to restrictive. I have been around the world and lived around it as well. And each area has it own beauty and wonderful things. But when the country is so big and so free as this one (Use to be) why would we spend the money to fly to a place lesser than what is closer to home. And yet unseen. I doubt there are more than 1% of Americans who have visited all the 50 states an even less if you throw in the likes of Guam and the Virgin Islands ..

So why travel to expensive places with people of extrema Attitudes. LOL

Well, there is the grand mistake. You assume you don't have an attitude, but let me tell you. The all pervasive 'we are the world' attitude on this forum is ALWAYS responsible for my outbursts. Of course, if you are American, you won't even realise how your attitude shines out, because of 'might is right' and 'kill by numbers'...yet it does shine out and is very offensive.

Oh no, another Americans vs. European thread! LOL.

Europe has a lot of little countries because they cannot live with each other. It's just a matter of time before they start with the bombs again, mark my words. European Union or what not, it's been tried before. I give it other two decades at most, before they get bored with peace and say, "screw this, let's kill!"

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Natural selection at its best.

Countries? I've never done tourism. Whenever I move somewhere, it's to work with the locals and live there. So I've only lived in five countries in my life: Peru (Lima, Ica, Arequipa, Iquitos), Ecuador (Machala), Chile (Arica), USA (Houston, Paterson) and Canada (Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria). 12 cities in total (although in Houston it was for less than a month).

Limited travel for me (wish it was more):

Canada
Mexico
Korea
Japan
Hong Kong

Of course many people in the US seem to think Hawaii is like a foreign country. The culture here is quite different than any other US state. Of course I've only been to 15 other states (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina).

I got that spelling from Nats and you know she is always an excellent speler cause she follows no ruels. Jest her way of tryin to sund stopid.

Hmmm you are easily offended. I think the Scottish and English both have very tender ego's.

Ok all, please stop the nationalism threads. Even though some of the comments are made in jest, we're starting to steer into an area where they aren't made in jest and people will get hurt (probably by me and my vacation button)

Remember, generalizations are never true. (like the irony?)

The world is in need of another good world war already, Roxie.

All the hatred is welling inside like a mantle of murderous blackness. The time for release is near.

Soon, humans shall sing again their eternal song:

"Yeah, let's kill!
Let's kill and die!
Yeah, in horrible pain
inflict and suffer
Let's kill!
The basic instinct
of the species
beckons
Let's murder!
Yeah, destruction
fire and death
We were born to die."

At least we can try to keep a semblance of peace around here. I hope.

OMG you have on one of those P-O-L-I-C-E Hats too. I have had my fill of those in the last 30 days. Darn, I guess I'll have to stifle the comment I was going to make about Uzbekistan.

I ain't never ever ever ever been out of my home village even the once. I dun went to the next street last year, or was it the year before, I forgets, anyhoo, thayse speak wiv a funny accent there, also don't av the same dad as most folks in our steet. Weird folks, for'ners. Can't abide them.

OMG its a fluke post!!!

It's good to know she's still among the living. Or at least among the undead.