Friday filler thread: How many countries have you been to?

[XcYZ]

Originally Posted by groovyjay

I'm from Finland and I've been to the following countires:

1.Sweden
2.Denmark
3.Belgium
4.Holland
5.Germany
6.Switzerland
7.Austria
8.France
9.Spain
10.Portugal
11.Italy
12.England
13.Mexico
14.Canada
15.US (31 different states so far)
16.Japan
17.Australia
18.New Zealand
19.China
20.Thailand
21.Malaysia
22.Hungary
23.Poland
24.Slovakia

When there's not much to do where you live, you'll have to go abroad a lot!

I think we have a winner! Wow!

[zbugger]

Originally Posted by 67Sally

I never gave it much thought.....but here goes.

1) United States
2) Canada
3) Mexico
4) Pureto Rico
5) Dominican Republic
6) St. Johns
7) Guadeloup
8) St. Lucia
9) Grenada
10) Argentina
11) England
12) Ireland
13) Norway
14) Netherlands
15) Germany
16) France
17) Austria
18) Czech Republic
19) Poland
20) Russia
21) Egypt
22) Saudi Arabia
23) United Arab Emirates
24) China
25) Japan
26) Thailand
27) Malaysia
28) Singapore
29) Indonesia
30) Australia
31) India (next month)
also could be going to Italy and Indonesia again before the end of the year

.......not bad for a South Dakota boy that moved to the city.....life in the oil & gas business.
W.

I'd have to agree. That's a lot of places. How many states have you been to?

[67Sally]

47....

[nvawgn]

france
us
mexico
scotland
england
spain
ireland
germany
belgium
canada
monte carlo
italy
switzterland
canary islands
hawaii

[jonny51]

US,Mexico and Japan

[ViperBlue68]

1.Mexico
2.Canada
3.France
4.England
5.Amsterdam
6.India
7.Germany
8.Singapore
9.China
10.Korea
thats about all I can think of right now....hafta say Amsterdam and Mexico were alot of fun

[ohcbird]

OK- my turn... This could take a while. Uncle S. Has sent me to many of these places over the last 17+ years.

1 United States
2 Canada (does Kay-Beck count as another country yet???)
3 Greenland
3a- A few trips above the artic circle (out of Greenland and Iceland)
4 Iceland
5 Norway
6 Sweden
7 Denmark
8 Belgium
9 Netherlands
10 Germany
11 France
12 Spain
13 Switzerland
14 Austria
15 Bosnia
16 Croatia (flew over Albania & Macedonia)
17 Greece (+Crete)
18 Italy (Sicily, Naples, Rome + Sardinia)
19 UK- Scotland and "the lower half"
20 Ireland
21 Turkey
22 Cyprus
23 Jordan
24 Israel
25 Saudi Arabia
26 Bahrain
27 Qatar
28 UAE
29 Egypt
30 Iraq
31 Afghanistan
32 Oman (Misirah)
33 Somalia (was there for "BHD" note: the ****tiest place on earth
34 Ethiopia
35 Djibouti
36 Kenya
37 Rwanda / Burundi
38 Diego Garcia (a brit possesion)
39 Seychelles (French possesion in the IO)
40 Senegal (Dakar)
41 Liberia
42 Mali (central Africa)
43 Algeria
44 Morocco
45 Brazil
46 Chile
47 Peru
48 Colombia
49 Ecuador
50 Curacao (Dutch holding N of venezuela)
51 Panama
52 Costa Rica (beee-U-tiful, and great surf)
53 El Salvador
54 Guatemala
55 Mexico, of course! I lived in CA within sight of the border for 12+ yrs...
56 Haiti
57 Dominican Republic
58 Puerto Rico
59 Just about every island in the Carribean chain
60 Cuba, but only on 'our' part (Gitmo)

And now for Asia-
61 Japan
62 Okinawa (if that doesn't count as part of Japan, which it shouldn't)
63 Thailand
64 Malaysia
65 Singapore
66 Australia- THE place I would be a citizen if ever kicked outa' the US.
67 New Zeland
68 Indonesia (Bali)
69 Hong Kong (pre & post 97 turnover)
70 Philippines (lotsa' time there)
71 Guam (yeah, US, but kinda not if you look at how much the Japanese own)
72 Wake ISle (US)
73 S. Korea

... and a bunch of other islands that belong to Us, The Brits, or the French.

[XcYZ]

Wow!! How do you remember all that? I think it's easy to say that we have a new winner.

[jannes_z-28]

Yes that would be hard to beat. It is almost half of all the countries in the world. Just the Moon left on that list.

Also the first one who had been to Sweden, except for Groovyjay who is from Finland that once was Sweden.

Jan

[PhaseShift]

I can not compete with Scott, but close in terms of Asian countries. My total is a measly 23. Oh, Guam does not count- that is a US territory.

My proofing may be bad here, but I think I can add a few new ones to the list-

Burma (Myanmar) The true insertion point of the enema (IMO)
Bangladesh
Vietnam
Cambodia
Nepal


If I were rating places on the "I feel bad for the people living there" list, Myanmar takes the cake for all I have seen. Bangladesh not far behind and India in general trailing by a hair.

I can say from many years living abroad- Be proud of your country and your heritage. No matter where you are from, it is home and it is where your family is from.

On the other hand, the neat thing about having Chinese parents in law is that all communication is filtered by 1- Wife or 2 – employees who work with father in law at son in law’s company. They love me; if they knew what a jerk I really am, they would likely call the police.

Phil