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Kia Ora Folks, It's Gypsy Rose here  ;) ;D

Well just a break from the serious stuff...Perhaps time for wishful thinking :icon_yes: or reminiscing...  :icon_yes:  :icon_rolleyes2:

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

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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 }

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.

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.

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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

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 :).

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

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

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).

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?

Quote from: Pica Pica on June 19, 2011, 09:08:29 AM
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.

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

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.

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

Antartica (Las Estrellas), Diego Garcia, Eastern Island

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.

Quote from: Jane on June 19, 2011, 10:32:43 AM
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.

One just doesn't float into Mordor do they?

Nah, usually one gets a delayed train.

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.

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.

Quote from: Valeriedances on June 19, 2011, 08:43:07 AM
I had to mark other as one of mine (not because I'm an alien!), because I lived in Hawaii for 4 years and dont see an option for the Pacific Islands. Also been to Guam, Philippines, Japan, Korea numerous times.

Kia Ora Valerie,
::) It's weird that, I live on an Island in the bloody "South Pacific" yet I only mentioned the one group of islands "Aotearoa"...

So I've now added it to the list...

Metta Zenda :)

England since I live here but i've also been to Ireland, Wales, France, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, USA, Belgium and Austria.

I wont be going abroad again anytime soon as I could never afford it, i'd love to go to Canada and travel Europe a bit though.

Quote from: tekla on June 19, 2011, 10:53:10 AMBut I've heard Antarctica is cool, I had a friend who did a year down at McMurdo, he loved it.

Calling Antarctica cool is a bit of an understatement.   :laugh:

I have been to Florida(USA) and Spain.   I am not much of a traveller :)

I'm not much of a traveller either... I've never set foot outside the US.
I live in Alaska, and I've visited about a dozen other states.

Iceland (home), Sweden, Denmark, England, (short stop) Northern Germany and Canuckistan!

Quote from: Pica Pica on June 19, 2011, 11:03:26 AM
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.

I must admit that Birmingham is pretty grim, whenever i'm forced to get a train into new street I want to kill myself  :P
Once you are on a boat however life changes in the blink of an eye, my dreams of world domination fade away & I don't even miss my Xbox (I do take a PSP though)

Nothing finer than messing about in boats eh?

Random places in the US, Mexico, The Bahamas, and France.  I'll be in Canada for the first time later this year.
I'd love to spend some time traveling through South America if I ever have some free time and extra cash  :laugh:

Kia Ora,

::) I've had the good fortune to travel quite a bit plus work in different countries=France=grape and walnut picking, Germany=youth hostel work, Australia=you name it I done it, the UK=similar to Aussie, The Netherlands=similar again, Denmark=youth hostel+restaurant+building site[on the beautiful island of Bornholm], Finland =but only for half a day selling flowers in a market in Helsinki...

However back in the early eighties [81/3] my ex and I travelled overland from Australia to the UK and back[18 months trip ], that is we caught planes or boats across the stretches of water then hitched and took local transport over land=jungle treks by foot and elephant in Northern Thailand and camel treks through the Northern  deserts of India along the way...

There are countries I would still like to visit, but the money well has run dry...I would have liked to visit Japan[my oldest lives there] Canada[both my oldest and second eldest have been there]South America[my youngest spent a while as an exchange student in Peru] Eastern Europe[my second eldest has been there and going again in July]...

It would seem my off spring have spent time in the places I would have liked to visit...So in a sense I feel I've been there too[wishful thinking I know-perhaps a little GREEN with envy poking through too] However they do send my postcards but I guess that just to rub more salt into the wound  ;) :D ;D

Metta Zenda :)

I have live and work through South and North America and Europe, but has never made it to the middle east, africa or Asia. Would love to see the Pyramids, Jerusalem, Petra, and then India, Tailand (may bet an SRS), Australia (get some opals, dive in the GR)), NZ (try a kiwi), and then to Okinawa and Japan.

Three cities in Europe I would love to live: Paris, Defl, and Aarhus (No "Aarhus stories here). I force to chose one, then the winner is Panam, hands down.

Kate D

Quote from: Pica Pica on June 19, 2011, 09:08:29 AM
Less oddly, why would I want to go to Scotland?

Myself, I would like to see where that part of my family came from.

Because it is MOTORCYCLE HEAVEN is why!!!

UK ( a lot, my home), USA, NZ, Asia (Singapore, Thailand both twice) and Australia (currently).

I really wanna do Portland, Canada and as much of Europe as possible... one day? Maybe only in my dreams :/

Kia Ora,

  ::) For me travel was a way to "escape" the dysphoria I felt with being trans...My mind always looking forward to new exciting experiences, helped push aside the gender identity issues...I had been travelling since I turn 16...I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't ?

You know the old saying "You can't run away from your true self!" eventually s/he will catch up with you...

I guess I should appreciate my dysphoric state for it got me off my butt and out into the world...

Another positive way to view ones past life!

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change!"

Metta Zenda :)

Kia Ora to you too Gypsy Rose,

I have been to... *takes a deep breath* The UK, USA, Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Belgium, Holland and Germany.

I live in the USA .... I have traveled to nearly all the states

Outside of the USA I have been -- Canada, Mexico, Ireland, England, Luxemburgh, Germany, France, Czech, Switzerland, Netherlands -- I think that's it

Quote from: justmeinoz on June 21, 2011, 02:27:16 AM
Because it is MOTORCYCLE HEAVEN is why!!!

!!!
wanna go, wanna go, wanna go, wanna go...

Well from what I have read Norway is good riding too.  Not forgetting UnZud Gypsy, I will get there when i have exhausted Tasmania!

Only America and Mexico, unforunately.  Though America is vast, I have been to Florida and New Mexico and reside in Texas.

Germany is home but I try to travel when I can. Places I've been to are: England, Belgium, US, and Poland. My to do list includes: Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Australia, and Egypt.

I used to think my travels were impressive, but I stand corrected. I've been to 39 U.S. states, plus Canada, Mexico, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. Gods, I need more money so I can see the rest.