Since last posting here, Greece and Sweden have been added to my list of visited countries. I loved both places!
Great to see all the travellers here! Since I've originally posted, my list includes: Canada - every province and one territory US - Cali, Louisiana, Florida, NY, NJ, PA, Montana, Iowa, Virginia (ran a half marathon there), Maryland, Indiana, Washington state, Washington DC, Alaska, Hawaii Mexico Guyana France England Scotland Many Caribbean islands (St. Maarten, Saba, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Barts, Antigua) To do list includes Australia, more US states, all of Canada's territories, Spain, Italy, really most of Europe.
Haven't been to many places at all, I didn't get on an aeroplane until 2005! I've been to Spain Greece Dominican Republic (holiday of a lifetime that my then-husband turned into a hellish nightmare, thats one thing I will never ever forgive him for, but there ya go...) Switzerland France Wales (not sure if that really counts cos I live in England, so its not that much of a jump lol)
Anybody ever been to puerto rico? what are the preferred cities to stay at? if your spanish is minimal, is that a huge barrier?
Hope you all forgive me for reviving this old thread?! Love travelling and have been to France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, UK, US, Malta, Greece, UAE, Belgium, India, New Zealand, Nigeria. Was born and grew up in Germany. Speak German, English, Spanish, Nigerian Pidgin (if you wanna count that). Learned Latin at school forever, but then it's not a spoken language. Would like to learn French and Igbo.
Sadly I've only been to the best country in the world (US of A) I mainly speak fluent jibberish concoczd with some Japanese.
Lots of travel in North America I've been to most of the states (and DC, PR). Those I haven't visited are AK, AR, OR, WY, ND, SD, NE, OK, MO, ID, ME, VT, NM, KS, MT, MN, IA In Canada I've visited just British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. In Mexico... only Tijuana. Other places are: Barbados Bahamas I speak only english, but I usually I can understand spanish being spoken.
You talking about the country where over 90 percent of native English speakers only know one language and 50 percent of them either think learning another language is useless or somehow threatens the culture. You talking about the country that elected a man that openly admires a dictator. The country that's alienating our historical allies for absolutely no reason at all? You talking about the country that thinks "do nothing" is a real economic policy. The country that has to import tons of its engineers, Tech professionals, and scientists? The country where a math teacher can have no idea what the hell a hypothesis is? The country where the only market blacks have cornered is hip hop? The country where poor whites "taking their country back" from minorities (that don't even run it) means giving what's left of it away to a few ultra rich white billionaires including Vladimir Putin. Lol Yep these ignorant ass people are great.
Some of the cities and locales are great. The constitution is great, so there are great things about this country but overall it could use some work, just my opinion. Maybe it would help if we quit telling people they are special just because they were born in America. The entitled hicks eat that up, and the result is what you see now a total embarrassment.
It's a beautiful country with friendly people who small talk with everyone and call someone at the supermarket check-out "honey" and "sweetheart" (me looking behind to find out who they are addressing;-)). Seems to offer lots of opportunities for hard-working people to get ahead work-wise and education-wise. Americans just shouldn't say it so openly and loudly they think they are the greatest cos it makes them look self conceited and causes eye-rolling in the rest of the world.
Lol. We all have shady shit going on in our countries lol at least it's 'the land of dreams'. It's a never ending nightmare trying to make ends meet in this country where a God damn avocado is $3.50 aud and that's not even organic OR orgasmic!
Haha. I actually do it's funny you should mention that I've been reminiscing all the way home about Memphis hahaha. I'm sad I know. But I'd live there any day of the week.
England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Aruba, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Singapore, Hong kong, Indonesia, US, South Africa, Botswana, Canada. I don't have one favorite because I went to different places for different reasons (beach, city trip, road trip etc.) My favorite city is Oxford. Beautiful, historical city and will always have a place in my heart because I studied there. My favorite beach destination is Aruba. My favorite '3+ wks trip' is the US. I lived in AZ for a while and had the chance to travel a lot. It's amazing that you can drive a few hours and be in a completely different setting. Lived in a desert area but within driving distance there was a skiing area(Flagstaff), the beach(San Diego) and some crazy city you probably heard of, Las Vegas. I speak Dutch, English, German, French and I recently started Arabic lessons. In the future i'd love to learn Russian.
