Where in the world have you been?

[Anatta]

Kia Ora Folks, It's Gypsy Rose here 

Well just a break from the serious stuff...Perhaps time for wishful thinking or reminiscing...   

Have you had the good fortune/opportunity to travel to exotic places[foreign lands] ?
If so where in the world have you been?

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-political-map.htm

If you haven't travelled but would like to where would you go?

I realise some people just don't have the travel bug...But hey whatever turns one on!

Metta Zenda   {the seasoned traveller- well I had money and time once }

[umop ap!sdn]

USA, Thailand, and also Mexico although I didn't see it in any of the choices. Oh, do airline layovers count? If so then Japan and Taipei are also on my list.

[Janet_Girl]

I live in the United States and have seen the lower 48, when I drove 18 wheeler.  I have also seen some our neighbor to the north, Ontario mostly.  But I have been to BC.

And yes I have been off world.  No, really.  I was born on Calion, which is in what you call the the Scutum-Centaurus arm, near the very tip.

[justmeinoz]

So far a fair bit of Australia south of a line from Adelaide to Brisbane,  Fiji twice. In 2001, Singapore, the UK and Ireland for 2 months followed by a quick bus tour of the Netherlands, Germany, Austrai, Italy, Switzerland and recovered with a week and a half in Paris.  Then  in 2003 a 2 week motorcycle tour of England, Scotland and Wales.
Karen

[Padma]

England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland (but not Ulster yet), Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia-that-was, Crete, Greece, Israel - Australia, US (New Hampshire, New York, New Orleans, Old Denver), and Thailand. I've been through the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Hungary on trains, but those don't count as I didn't stop there .

[Taka]

i've been to all of scandinavia. pretty natural as i live here.. i've also been to singapore and greece

now i just hope i'll get that job i "applied" for last night so i can earn some money. i'd love to be able to travel to different places with my daughter. england would be a natural place to start as her father has family there, but eventually i hope to go by the trans-siberian railway to china, and from there to korea and japan. that would be so cool

[~RoadToTrista~]

The USA, cause I live here. ^.^ And Thailand, cause most of my family lives there. ^.^

[JungianZoe]

Traveled a lot in the US, but sadly never been outside of it much.  I once spent a day in Mexico (Tijuana, which doesn't really count much) and 5 minutes in Canada.  Within the US, I've been to 38 states, having missed only the far Northwest, far Northeast, and most of the South.

Really would like to travel more some day, if I ever have money.  Would really like to see England, Ireland, and Germany, three sides of my family history (the fourth side being Cherokee).  But I'd also love to go to Australia, Greece, Italy, Nepal, and Egypt, and Russia (in the summertime, of course).

[Pica Pica]

Well, UK and Ireland, Southern and Western Europe, Turkey (what we calling that?) US and maybe Australia and Ghana in the future.

Oddly enough, I have never been to Scotland.
Less oddly, why would I want to go to Scotland?

[Padma]

Less oddly, why would I want to go to Scotland?

...but... but... it's pretty! Well, some of it - and a much higher landscape-to-people ratio than most of this crowded little island.

[Pica Pica]

Well, if you're there - then maybe a glimmer o' something.

[tekla]

The middle Europe stuff - Brit Isles, France, Germany, Neth, Bel, Swz, Italy, and Greece.  Never made it to Former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe, or Scandinavia.  I did work with Bechtel and they sent me to a couple of places in the Mideast and I would go to other Mediterranean places from there, to New Guinea (I got to help have a part in building what is now refereed to as 'an environmental disaster'),to India, and all sorts of strange projects in the US.  I've been through Mexico and Central America and a thin part of South America.  Been to Japan a couple of times too.

I really like Japan for what it is.  And Central America is very nice too.  But I love the entire Mediterranean deal, the people and cultures around the Sea are agreeable to me.  Greece, Italy, Egypt  I love the classic tourist classics too so you can't go wrong with the pyramids and the Parthenon.  (and I did most of that back in the 80s, when it was still very safe.)  Never did Spain, but I want to.  I do like the Riviera, I guess everyone does.

But mostly I've traveled the US.  The better part of 20 years had huge road trips every year.  And I've been on tour (but really that doesn't count, that's work, no fun, it's not like even being somewhere).  But on road trips/vacations I've been through most of the US, mostly west of the Mississippi, but not exclusively.I'm a real National Parks junkie and all that stuff is beyond awesome.  You can't go wrong at a national park or monument. 

But out of anywhere I've ever been, if I had to pick one place to go, it's Tahoe baby.  Tahoe and that area has it all.  No matter what you want.

[Jayne]

I've been to Turkey, the south of France, Germany, Scotland & Wales but the best place on this spinning ball of dirt that we call the Earth that i've been is the Black country canals in England, no amount of travelling this planet will find me a place where I feel more at peace than when i'm pootling along a canal in a narrow boat.

On a narrow boat life slows to a dreamlike crawl, you are surrounded by nature & the beauty of the rolling hills of the English countryside, you'd be amazed how quickly & far behind lifes problems can be left when you're travelling at 3 miles an hour

[kate durcal]

Antartica (Las Estrellas), Diego Garcia, Eastern Island

[tekla]

Diego Garcia, that's in the middle of nowhere.  But I've heard Antarctica is cool, I had a friend who did a year down at McMurdo, he loved it.

[Pica Pica]

the best place on this spinning ball of dirt that we call the Earth that i've been is the Black country canals in England,

The Black Country?? Mordor - Holidays in Mordor - Boating holidays in Mordor.
However, I can talk - there's nowhere I'd rather be than the sootbox known as London.

[tekla]

One just doesn't float into Mordor do they?

[Pica Pica]

Nah, usually one gets a delayed train.

[Sarah Louise]

48 of the 50 states, Canada, China, Japan, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, England, Mexico, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain.

All of the European trips were business, with lots of pleasure time mixed in.  We got to have our anniversary in Spain once and in Switzerland once.

[Aiden]

yeh would love to visit other places, but so far have only made it within my home country US lol  Hope to some day be able to travel other countries if ever can afford it.