been to toronto canada, couldn't wait to leave!!!
Other than that i love the USA~
Other than that i love the USA~
How many people travel outside the country you live in?
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Let's see.....I've visited several countries in Europe, and lived in the UK for two years and in Denmark for three. One thing that definitely became clear to me is that traveling to another country is very different from living in one! I don't care to recall all of the time I have spent filling out forms, managing bank accounts, and speaking to immigration officials-- not to mention sitting on planes for eight or more hours desperately wishing we could hurry up and land already.
One very important thing you do get to achieve when living outside of the U.S. is having the chance to view it through the eyes of people from other countries. Only once in five years did I have someone come right out and assume something about me simply because I'm American-- a drunken Dane once declared that I must be a war-monger who would shoot someone for stepping on my foot. But I set him straight about that.
In Europe I learned.....
....that Europeans and Americans both have populations of brown-skinned people to the south who are viewed as ignorant, shady job thieves who want to take advantage of the generosity of their paler northern neighbors.
....that it's possible for good beer to come in a can.
....that it's possible for two towns to be thirty miles apart and yet the people living in them have dramatically different accents.
....that a mail carrier on a bike smoking a pipe can be quite picturesque.
....that several months among non-Americans could dramatically alter my own accent, because some people unconsciously imitate the inflection of the people they're speaking to in order to be better understood.
....that it really makes more sense to learn how to drink before you learn how to drive.
....how to play snooker, and the rules of cricket...both of which I've forgotten.
....that the Irish Sea is cold to swim in.
....that the Crown Princess of Denmark used to be a real estate agent, and met the Crown Prince at a bar in Sydney, Australia during the 2000 Olympics.
...that America really needs more castles. We definitely have a castle deficit.
...that the Eurovision Song Contest is truly an event unlike any other.
...that we really have so much more in common than is often proclaimed.
One very important thing you do get to achieve when living outside of the U.S. is having the chance to view it through the eyes of people from other countries. Only once in five years did I have someone come right out and assume something about me simply because I'm American-- a drunken Dane once declared that I must be a war-monger who would shoot someone for stepping on my foot. But I set him straight about that.
In Europe I learned.....
....that Europeans and Americans both have populations of brown-skinned people to the south who are viewed as ignorant, shady job thieves who want to take advantage of the generosity of their paler northern neighbors.
....that it's possible for good beer to come in a can.
....that it's possible for two towns to be thirty miles apart and yet the people living in them have dramatically different accents.
....that a mail carrier on a bike smoking a pipe can be quite picturesque.
....that several months among non-Americans could dramatically alter my own accent, because some people unconsciously imitate the inflection of the people they're speaking to in order to be better understood.
....that it really makes more sense to learn how to drink before you learn how to drive.
....how to play snooker, and the rules of cricket...both of which I've forgotten.
....that the Irish Sea is cold to swim in.
....that the Crown Princess of Denmark used to be a real estate agent, and met the Crown Prince at a bar in Sydney, Australia during the 2000 Olympics.
...that America really needs more castles. We definitely have a castle deficit.
...that the Eurovision Song Contest is truly an event unlike any other.
...that we really have so much more in common than is often proclaimed.
I do underwater photography and go to many foreign countries to do it.
India
Nepal (not diving)
Sri Lanka
Many areas in Indonesia
Borneo/Malaysia
Papua New Guinea
Australia
All over the Caribbean
I love to travel to different cultures....the more different the better. It always serves to make me appreciate just what we have in this country.
I will travel in a heartbeat....pretty much anywhere.
India
Nepal (not diving)
Sri Lanka
Many areas in Indonesia
Borneo/Malaysia
Papua New Guinea
Australia
All over the Caribbean
I love to travel to different cultures....the more different the better. It always serves to make me appreciate just what we have in this country.
I will travel in a heartbeat....pretty much anywhere.
My US passport has:
Portugal
Germany
Poland (one of my Favs)
Spain
Denmark
Australia
Jamaica 8 times. Love Jamaica
that's all I can think of this late.
Portugal
Germany
Poland (one of my Favs)
Spain
Denmark
Australia
Jamaica 8 times. Love Jamaica
that's all I can think of this late.
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You have time sillyhead. Finish high school with solid grades, then go during college breaks, best thing we did when I went off to school was some family cruises during my week off, rather than go home to visit and sit at my grandparents, we went for a 4 day cruise together, no house to pick up no mile long lines for the bathroom, we actually had time for each other. Try it.
You have time sillyhead. Finish high school with solid grades, then go during college breaks, best thing we did when I went off to school was some family cruises during my week off, rather than go home to visit and sit at my grandparents, we went for a 4 day cruise together, no house to pick up no mile long lines for the bathroom, we actually had time for each other. Try it.
I've been to more than 20 countries. I found the Americans to be different all over. Some were nice, some were arrogant, some were suspicious & some hospitable
P.S. Never try to buy silkies from Americans as a foreigner-they will all suddenly start ignoring your emails & lying about not having stock for sale. Sigh.
The Scandinavians & French would step around you if you were dying in the street but that's just my opinion. South Africans are very warm & friendly once they realize you don't want to kill them.
Israelis are tough/difficult on the outside & very good on the inside. This excludes horse & dog showing people. They are awful inside & out! Australians were awesome-very friendly. Singaporeans & Thais were quiet , polite & helpful. No one in the Mediterranean knows how to give simple directions in their own countries!!!
These are just generalizations. People are people all over the world & while the cultures may differ, their natures don't. There are good & bad people everywhere.
P.S. Never try to buy silkies from Americans as a foreigner-they will all suddenly start ignoring your emails & lying about not having stock for sale. Sigh.
The Scandinavians & French would step around you if you were dying in the street but that's just my opinion. South Africans are very warm & friendly once they realize you don't want to kill them.
Israelis are tough/difficult on the outside & very good on the inside. This excludes horse & dog showing people. They are awful inside & out! Australians were awesome-very friendly. Singaporeans & Thais were quiet , polite & helpful. No one in the Mediterranean knows how to give simple directions in their own countries!!!
These are just generalizations. People are people all over the world & while the cultures may differ, their natures don't. There are good & bad people everywhere.
I used to live in Florida, does that count??
I swear I was the only english-speaking person within a 5 mile radius!
I swear I was the only english-speaking person within a 5 mile radius!
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i guess i travel out side my country every day....i'm a canadian (quebec) and live in south western kansas now...(still a canadian)....
only countries i've been too is...
b.v.i's
and the states....
lol....unless the newfies are trying to pull what quebec is trying to do, there both in CANADA...
only countries i've been too is...
b.v.i's
and the states....
lol....unless the newfies are trying to pull what quebec is trying to do, there both in CANADA...
Eh ? fellow canuck ? Whats b,v,i,s ? Sorry its to early in the morning .....Merci !
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DH has been everywhere. We have been too broke to travel much for a while now. Next year I want to go to Germany and England, if we have the $$ to spare, but we probably won't. Every time we get airfare money, somehow it's needed for something else.
DH is British, lived in Egypt for a while, and has been to Nova Scotia & France. He learned that in Egypt, you must shake out your shoes before putting them on in the morning, or you will be stuck in bed all day with scorpion stings. Also that African bees are much more evil than European bees. He also learned that 2/3 of Cairo is a slum, no matter what the tourist guides say, that camels get up in a way that requires Dramamine, and that the most important word in Egypt is "tomorrow," as in, "when you do expect to be able to fix my rental car?" and "when will (vitally important thing) be available for sale?" and "when will the next flight to (anywhere else) be leaving?" "Tomorrow."
He says he would go back, in the event that politics should make it safer than it is now. He would like to see the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings again without the vomiting-from-camel-hump aspect.
He did not notice a vast difference between Nova Scotia and New England, sorry to tell the Canadians. He was on a sailboat, the coastline was pretty much the same, they ate lobsters, therefore didn't notice much.
He says the US has taught him a lot, though: He thinks of the US more like a bunch of loosely-affiliated separate countries rather than the monolithic entity that his countrymen see. New England isn't much different from actual England, except in the quantity of snow and ice here in winter and the horrible accents, but the Midwest and South might as well be entirely different countries in his view. I can see that, we went to New Orleans in the spring and the difference in food, language, history (OK, perceptions of the same history, but still), landscape, architecture, economics, day-to-day customs, music was enormous.
DH is British, lived in Egypt for a while, and has been to Nova Scotia & France. He learned that in Egypt, you must shake out your shoes before putting them on in the morning, or you will be stuck in bed all day with scorpion stings. Also that African bees are much more evil than European bees. He also learned that 2/3 of Cairo is a slum, no matter what the tourist guides say, that camels get up in a way that requires Dramamine, and that the most important word in Egypt is "tomorrow," as in, "when you do expect to be able to fix my rental car?" and "when will (vitally important thing) be available for sale?" and "when will the next flight to (anywhere else) be leaving?" "Tomorrow."
He says he would go back, in the event that politics should make it safer than it is now. He would like to see the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings again without the vomiting-from-camel-hump aspect.
He did not notice a vast difference between Nova Scotia and New England, sorry to tell the Canadians. He was on a sailboat, the coastline was pretty much the same, they ate lobsters, therefore didn't notice much.
He says the US has taught him a lot, though: He thinks of the US more like a bunch of loosely-affiliated separate countries rather than the monolithic entity that his countrymen see. New England isn't much different from actual England, except in the quantity of snow and ice here in winter and the horrible accents, but the Midwest and South might as well be entirely different countries in his view. I can see that, we went to New Orleans in the spring and the difference in food, language, history (OK, perceptions of the same history, but still), landscape, architecture, economics, day-to-day customs, music was enormous.
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