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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: betarhoalphadelta on February 19, 2020, 01:13:38 PM
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Thought this might be an interesting one in the vein of the memorable drives thread...
States you've visited, or if the list is shorter, states not visited.
Then, countries visited...
For me, states NOT visited:
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Arkansas
- Oklahoma
- North Dakota
- Montana
- Idaho
- Alaska
I really want to see the big sky country states (Montana/Idaho), and Alaska is on my bucket list. Some of the others I probably won't mind if I never get there lol.
Countries visited (in order):
- Canada
- Mexico
- Taiwan
- France
- Sweden
- Germany
- Austria
- Malaysia
- Thailand
- China
- Italy
I can almost count England (had to Uber from Heathrow to Gatwick) and Hong Kong (landed at airport, took car service over the border to Shenzhen), but I don't *really* count those even though I exited the airport... I didn't actually do anything to visit.
I really want to check out Japan. But I think the next vacation destination (pushed to next year due to the puppy) will be England/Ireland, and then Japan will be the following international trip.
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Been to, or visited?
North Dakota is the only state I haven't been to, but I haven't really visited Michigan--I've been to the Detroit Airport, and I've driven on a highway near South Bend. Kind of an odd omission.
Countries I've been to:
Canada
Mexico
South Korea (and North Korea, counting a walk in the DMZ)
China (only Hong Kong)
Malaysia
Thailand
Peru
England
France
Germany
Austria
Spain
Italy
Greece
(I've been in the airports in Portugal and Switzerland, but I don't think that counts)
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I haven't been to Hawaii, New Mexico or North Dakota. Texas, I've only been to airports.
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States not visited:
Alaska
Montana
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
South Carolina
Delaware
Territories visited:
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Key West
Countries visited:
California
Texas
DC
Bahamas
Jamaica
Gibraltar
Canada
Mexico
Bermuda
Grand Cayman
St. Kitts
St. Barthelemy
St. Martin
St. Maarten
British Virgins
Antigua
Tenerife
Spain
Belgium
France
Italy
Montenegro
Netherlands
Upcoming this year:
Germany
Austria
Portugal
Peru
Panama
Columbia
Future:
UK (maybe)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Denmark
Poland
Greece (maybe)
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Deep South States
I may have left off a few, and I want to make a lot of return trips (mostly Europe).
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States not visited as adult because I have been to almost all of the states except a few (Texas, Hawaii and Alaska) but have little to no memory of them:
Alaska
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusettes
New Hampshire
Maine
Countries Visited:
Canada
Mexico
Bahamas
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Italy
England
Czech Republic
France
Denmark
Germany
Estonia
Russia
Finland
Sweden
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Been to, or visited?
North Dakota is the only state I haven't been to, but I haven't really visited Michigan--I've been to the Detroit Airport, and I've driven on a highway near South Bend. Kind of an odd omission.
(I've been in the airports in Portugal and Switzerland, but I don't think that counts)
Define it the way you want... I left Vermont off the list because I can't recall if I've been there, but if I was there it was basically just driving through. Arkansas/Oklahoma I might have driven through somewhere, but didn't count it. And as mentioned I left England and Hong Kong off the list because although I've technically left the airports in both places and stepped on terra firma, I really don't consider them as places I've "been".
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I will visit my 50th state this summer, Alaska w my family.
Louisiana was No. 49 about five years ago
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States not visited:
Arizona - been to Sky Harbor many times though
Connecticut
Delaware
Hawaii
Idaho (I may have technically been in the Idaho portion of Yellowstone way back when, but I don't really count it)
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
I've been to Canada and New Zealand. So not particularly well-traveled, but not awful either I guess.
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Define it the way you want...
I didn't count airport stops as a visit.
I figured if I spent more than 8 hours (other than driving), dined (and spent money), it's a visit.
Most of the Caribbean ones for me are cruise ship stops. The cruise line we use spends a lot of time in port - and many overnight. So, it's a visit. Most.. no need to revisit.
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I don't count airports. I must conduct an act of commerce in order to count it. North Dakota is my weakest visit, four hours and a dinner in Fargo. Was fishing in Detroit lakes nearby.
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Wow! All of you are very well traveled.
States visited / lived in:
Born in Nebraska
Raised in South Dakota
Lived in Las Vegas, NV for four months
Wyoming
Colorado
Drove through Utah
Went to brother's wedding in New Jersey
North Carolina
North Dakota
Kansas
Missouri
Minnesota
Iowa
Country visited
Canada
Guess I'm pretty much a home body. All family vacations were in the state I was living in. Went to Canada once for a band camp at the International Peace Gardens and once on a vacation the summer before my senior year. First time I ever flew on a plane was for my brother's wedding in New Jersey in 2002. Flew to NC for a work conference and those were my only two times on a plane, lol.
Someday (when I win the lottery, lol) I want to go Germany to look up family (we came to the US in 1630 or so) so I could spend a long time just doing that, ha ha. Luckily both sides come from Germany with only one branch from Scotland way back when. Wouldn't have to go to a lot of countries.
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I haven't been to Hawaii, New Mexico or North Dakota. Texas, I've only been to airports.
Missed part two of the two part question. My list of countries is rather exotic. You are going to want to sit down for this. Consider yourself warned.
1 Canada
2 Mexico
That is all.
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Yeah, I may crush all the states but I'm just a
Canada (12+)
Mexico
Turks
St. Martin/Maarten.
Some consider LGA and JFK third world countries. Btw, the new Delta terminal at LGA is pleasant. Walked through it this morning. Back to 1st world
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Umm, I've visited England and the Bahamas, Mexico.....oh, on the flight to the UK, they thought a bomb might be on board, so we landed in Dublin for a couple hours...does that count?
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States NOT visited:
- Maine
- Connecticut (I think)
- Rhode Island
- Washington
- Oregon
- Alaska
- Hawaii
I'll eventually pick up ME and CT on AT hiking trips. I don't know if I'll ever visit Rhode Island, it isn't really on the way to anything.
Someday I'll do a trip to the Pacific Northwest and visit Oregon and Washington.
Alaska will probably be a cruise someday.
I would love to see Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Countries I HAVE visited:
- Canada
- Germany (although at the time it was West Germany)
- Austria
- Italy
I've also been close enough to see part of what is now Slovenia but at the time it was part of Yugoslavia.
My biggest regret in International travel is not going to see the Berlin Wall when it was still real and they were still really shooting people who tried to escape East Berlin. I went to Germany, Austria, and Italy in the summer of 1989 and we had an option to go to Berlin and see the City and the Wall. At the time I truly believed that I could go back and see the Berlin Wall decades later so I opted for Venice, Italy instead. Venice is nothing but a tourist trap and I missed my chance to see the Berlin Wall. A few months after I got home I watched on TV as the Wall was opened.
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Some of the Caribbean islands are right up there with Venice, as far as disappointments go.
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Sounds like most of us have been to Canada. What Provinces?
Me? Ontario and Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, BC and the Yukon.
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Sounds like most of us have been to Canada. What Provinces?
Me? Ontario and Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, BC and the Yukon.
So far Ontario (Windsor, Toronto, and Ottawa), Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton), and BC (Vancouver).
Every one of those trips was for work, except for Windsor. I used to go there when I was 19-20 years old since the drinking age is 19 there lol...
It's somewhat nice all the places I've been able to see in my life so far, but somewhat depressing how many of them were business trips. Outside of Windsor and one day in Ensenada, every single one of my international trips was business-related except my Italy/Paris trip when I got married in 2018.
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Sounds like most of us have been to Canada. What Provinces?
British Columbia, Alberta, and Nova Scotia.
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States lived in: Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Hawaii, Arizona, Washington DC/Virginia, California
States NOT visited: Alaska, North Dakota, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. For the other 45 I’ve spent at least 1 day/night
Nations visited (in order): Canada, Mexico, Japan, Kuwait, Qatar, Australia, England/UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy/Sicily, Croatia, Slovenia, Grenada, South Korea.
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Sounds like most of us have been to Canada. What Provinces?
Alberta, Vancouver/Victoria BC, Toronto/Hamilton Ontario. Nothing really out of the way like Yukon.
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Lived in Illinois, Indiana, California, and Georgia.
Although I think California should count double because I lived in both NorCal and SoCal, which often seem like different states...
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Provinces are huge. Ontario from E to W has elements of urban jungle and total remote BFE and that's the most populous . I look forward to returning to Quebec, particularly Quebec City and the eastern provinces.
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Yeah, Ontario spans the entire Great Lakes region.
I ventured into the Yukon when I was in Alaska. Got to see the Carcross desert which is the world's smallest; literally just a couple of acres on the side of the road. Not sure why that spot doesn't get any water.
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States lived in: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida.
States not visited: Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Montana, North and South Carolina, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska.
Countries visited: Canada (Ontario and Manitoba), Mexico, Belize, Grand Cayman, Bahamas, Honduras, Jamaica, Dubuque -- oops, that's a state.
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States I have not been to:
Alaska
North Dakota
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Vermont
Countries I have been to:
Canada
Mexico
Belize
France
Italy
Monaco
Wife and I are planning a 15 day European Cruise next year. It will hit England, France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. We may go in early or stay late to hit some other places.
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One piece of advice my late grandmother gave me (when I was a young teen) was to travel the world first, before traveling the US, because you can always see the home country later in age (if I'm afforded a long life, that is), but going international gets exponentially harder as you age & run out of energy, time, & physical capabilities. So I have not made it a priority to see all 50 states at this time and there are probably more states I haven't been to than those I have seen. However I have almost as many countries under my belt as states, so I feel pretty good about my travels so far.
States I have been to: Texas (obvi), Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida & Ohio. (5 of these are thanks to our CFN Board Meetings!!)
Countries I have been to: Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras (the islands only), Bahamas, Jamaica, Spain, France, Italy, England, Holland, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany
I would much rather touch foot on all 7 continents than see all 50 states, personally, because its much more fulfilling & exciting being in crazy cool places so far from what I'm used to. I just love that part of traveling the most - seeing the unfamiliar rather than the familiar.
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One piece of advice my late grandmother gave me (when I was a young teen) was to travel the world first, before traveling the US, because you can always see the home country later in age (if I'm afforded a long life, that is), but going international gets exponentially harder as you age & run out of energy, time, & physical capabilities.
That's great advice. It's easy to think you'll be flitting around Europe after retirement, but that's when overseas travel gets hard.
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States I've not made it to:
Alaska
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
In the 80ies my father took me on Baseball Tours. We would visit 4 to 7 pro baseball parks per trip, and made it to all of them. That is how visited most states.
Countries I've been:
Canada
Germany (young kid don't remember)
Mission Trips -
Mexico
Honduras
Costa Rica
Panama
Cruise -
Venezuela
Aruba
Antilles
Grenada
Trinidad & Tobago
I feel like there was one more stop, and looking at a map it would make sense to say Netherlands Antilles, but that doesn't sound right.
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That's great advice. It's easy to think you'll be flitting around Europe after retirement, but that's when overseas travel gets hard.
Yes, it doesn't get easier. Europe has no idea what ADA means. Cobblestone streets don't care about bum feet or legs. Steep steps with no railings don't care about balance issues. The buildings don't care that they don't have elevators.
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Just endured a 10.5 hour flight back from France. Those headwinds.
Have never been to North Dakota. I think we were in Andorra once, the border was not clearly marked and I was a bit lost. OK, I was very lost, but I figured it out. We found a place with no cell reception and thus no nav.
Will knock off some Baltic countries this fall and Turkey in April. I think I have been to France 15 times now. The hotel had a gift for us for staying ten times (we stay at the CDG airport if flying out the next day). I've been up since 3 AM their time, which would be 9 PM EST.
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States lived in: Virginia, Vermont, Missouri, Utah (all by age 8)
Ohio (since age 8)
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States I've purposely visited/been: FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, DC, TN, LA, MS, AL, OH, IN, AZ, CA, NV, NM, CO, UT, WY.
Other sates I've been through: AR, OK IL, MI
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I'd like to visit Cooperstown before I die. NYC. Maybe Fenway. I have no desire to visit northern New England or the upper midwest or the pacific northwest at all. If I had to pick an area in the U.S., I guess it'd be Montana. That might be nice/unique.
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My desired locales are more tropical. St. Somewhere. Bora Bora. The Maldives (before they're gone). Something like that.
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Montana is interesting of course, but so are Oregon and Washington and Idaho, to me.
I have lived in Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, and Georgia, in that order. You can see what is on my mind.
I lived in Ohio the longest though.
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I've lived in Illinois my entire life, in Chicago and various suburbs, except for my one year in the State of Madison (which is surrounded entirely by Wisconsin).
Oregon and Idaho are interesting in that I think they produce some of the best available frozen potatoes: Ore-Ida.
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My nephew got married in Kalispell, Montana. The country there is very beautiful and I could see myself living there if it wasn't for one thing. Winter!!. I will never live anywhere ever again where there is a chance of snow and ice.
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States Not Visited
Alaska
Arkansas
Connecticut
Idaho
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Dakota
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Vermont
Countries Visited
Mexico
Honduras
Puerto Rico
Bahamas
Belize
Barbados
Saint Lucia (My favorite island)
Antigua and Barbuda
Cayman Islands
Saint Kitts and Nevis
St. Maarten
I'll be adding Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao to my list in 30 days along with another stop by St. Maarten.
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Some countries I think I'd like to visit include:
Vietnam
Russia
Thailand
New Zealand
Sweden
Austria
Greece
Turkey
Egypt
Morocco
South Africa (if safe)
Japan
Iceland
Argentina
The list goes on. I visited Canada for the first time last year, but not much of it. We will visit Turkey in April, but only Istanbul, and Russia in September but only Leningrad, or wait, St. Pete. We will be in Sweden a few days staying with a friend.
That's a long and incomplete list also.
I was trying to count up how many times I've been to France and got 15 separate trips, the last was for four weeks.
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I've only been outside the US a few times.
Mexico resorts Atlantic and Pacific 7 times
Canada a couple times
Bahamas and the Cayman's on cruises
I think I'd like to play golf in Scotland and Ireland
a trip to Germany might be enjoyable
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Lived in:
California for the vast majority of my years (Bay Area, to be specific);
Wisconsin for college;
El Paso, TX (so Texas, but, like California, it's a big enough state that the location in Texas matters);
Tennessee;
South Korea (Suwon and Kunsan).
Spent several months at Fort Lewis, in Washington, but I think it falls short of living there.
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I like history, so Europe for me is always worth a visit. I like wine, huh, they have wine in Europe too. I like food. They don't really have BBQ in Europe much at all though.
Going to Istanbul in April, should be interesting.
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if you enjoy western Europe history.....
all places have history
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I like history, so Europe for me is always worth a visit. I like wine, huh, they have wine in Europe too. I like food. They don't really have BBQ in Europe much at all though.
Going to Istanbul in April, should be interesting.
What they lack in the BBQ department they make up for in very well-aged cured/smoked meats.
Best smoked salmon of my life was in Europe, as well as interesting dried cured meats like bear that I got to try in Croatia last fall.
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No doubt, but for me personally, a lack in the BBQ department is unacceptable.
Of course, we're headed to Istanbul in April, and I bet they lack in the Q department seriously.
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But not in the kebab department.
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Yeah, I like kebabs, and from what I can discern Turkish food in general. Our neighbor is going to take us to a restaurant here somewhere that he says is authentic, but it's basically Greek food for the most part.
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States I've purposely visited/been: FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, DC, TN, LA, MS, AL, OH, IN, AZ, CA, NV, NM, CO, UT, WY.
Other sates I've been through: AR, OK IL, MI
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I'd like to visit Cooperstown before I die. NYC. Maybe Fenway. I have no desire to visit northern New England or the upper midwest or the pacific northwest at all. If I had to pick an area in the U.S., I guess it'd be Montana. That might be nice/unique.
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My desired locales are more tropical. St. Somewhere. Bora Bora. The Maldives (before they're gone). Something like that.
Cooperstown was a bit of a letdown for me. I can't really say why, but it just was. After a 3-hour drive (that felt like 4) from West Point, it just didn't live up to my expectations. And then we had to turn around and drive back. It was the first week in October, so it was a beautiful drive. That was the high point.
See the Little Bighorn Battlefield if you go to Montana. Be sure you take the depressing route through the Crow Reservation to get there.
States I've missed: New Hampshire (been 15 minutes away from it 4 or 5 times), Nebraska, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, NoDak, SoDak, Idaho.
Countries I've visited or lived in. Mexico, Japan, S. Korea, Grenada, Barbados, (W.) Germany.