How many countries have you set foot in?

11 or 12

Canada
USA
Mexico
UK
Republic of Ireland
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Estonia
USSR, then Russia (28 yrs later)

I can't believe that at 53, I have only been to 2 other countries, but there is never anyone to go with me, when I have the money.

Not that I have a great deal of money but I've had this problem also. I haven't been able to find a middle-aged female birdwatcher to travel with who is actually free to travel or, if she has free time, she has no money.

I need to get out more.

Canada
Bermuda
The Bahamas

Mexico
Morocco
Great Britain (England & Scotland)
France
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Holland
Czech Republic (I LOVE PRAGUE)
Bolivia
Peru

Wow, it helps to make a list!

Morocco was fabulous. I love traveling, so I am especially cheesed off about the rest of the world hating our guts. Sigh. Maybe one day I'll make that dream trip to Egypt...

:dem:
RV

Greece, Tahiti - Texas

Definitely less than 40.

USA
Canada
Mexico
British Virgin Islands
New Zealand
Australia
Singapore
Japan
South Korea
Russia
India
Nepal
Egypt
Italy
Germany (east, west and both)
Austria
Netherlands
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
United Kingdom (scotland if it counts separate)
Spain
Finland
Sweden
Dutch antillies (saba)
Cayman islands
Hong Kong
thailand
Bahrain
Dubai
Iran
France
switzerland (on edit)

I'm SOOOO jealous. Was it wonderful? Did you travel as a tourist? I'd like to hear all about it...

RV

As a caucasian with an american passport, i would not travel to nepal until there is no more maoist insurgency... i was there when that started in 1996.

I was threatened as a simple trekking backpacker... i trecked up to the annipurna base camp.... i LOVE THE HIGH HIMALAYAS... they kick ass... like white teeth scraping the sky... makes the hair stand up on the back of my head those massive peaks.

Near annipurna are several 7000 meter peaks, machupichare (sp) and the annipurna range... stunning beyond measure.

I was threatened by some nepali men in pokhara, where they clearly resented the white folks with money coming in to their country and living like kings while they underclass... it was not my fault, but there was a clear sense of anger beneath things in teh towns and the villiages. I felt a similar vibe of anger in kashmir when i was there in 1988...

If you want to experience the himalaya, i recommend the upper region of uttar pradhesh in india. Fly in to new delhi, take a taxi for 3000 rupees or so to rishikesh and then make your way up through the foothills (14000 foot foothills) to the peaks. India does not have the insurgency threat, and the place is equally stunning. Himichal pradesh can be more dodgey... ladakh is cool, but then your on the other side of the mountains, and its flat like being on the nevada side of the sierras... the water falls to the south of the himaalays making the peaks white... on the tibet side, they're 10000 feet above a 13000 foot plateau... really high, but it really does look like death valley visually.

It is why i live in the scottish highlands now as i write this. It is a more pure place in a western country, where if i snapped a photo in the right direction, it could be the himalayas... just without third world government... but my heart is in those high himalayan valleys... especially gomukh/tapoban up from gangotri, the origin of the ganges river.

Trekked 16 days from Jiri to just past Tengboche, somewhat near Everest (35 km?) (in 2000).


Achilles tendon gave out (not total tear). Had to walk 3 days back to airport in Lukla. http://www.disarray.co.uk/holiday/nepal/slides/nepal07.html]

Beautiful Country, Beautiful People. Went through a village controlled by Maoists. No problem, but my guide transformed me from American to Canadian.

Situation is worse now, but no tourists have been harmed, it appears.

I'd go back if not for my Achilles, my knees, and cash.

Very cheap to trek there. Getting over there is the expensive part.
I'd advise doing it!

AWESOME!

Tell me about it!

What year? What reason? etc.

It might have been 74... what year did nixon resign... it was right after that.

It was a beautiful place and i remember ticking my mental box to come back and to travel out to the countryside which looked so sweet. .. little did i know what the future would entail.

If country borders and nationalism was not a problem, i would gladly travel in jordan, syria, afganistan, iran, iraq and pakistan. I love mountains and deserts... sadly it is too dangerous for a blue eyed american passport. Instead, i've gone back to india many times, as its political stability has afforded me some of that angst... but if afganistan was not dangerous, i'd go there in a hot second... same with iran.

I was thinking of arranging to visit cuba also, as an act of civil disobedience. I really liked taiwan, but the far east is too crowded for my taste, though i like oriental culture. My next new country will probably be romania. I realized in answering this question, that i am now older than the number of countries i've visited... and that simply cannot be allowed to stand.

Canada
The United States of America
The Occupied States of America

Canada (British Columbia)
Japan
Philippines
Hong Kong
Australia
Diego Garcia (horrible)
Bahrain
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

My favorites are Sydney and Hong Kong (Hong Kong before it was returned to Chinese rule).

more or less

I wrote a software system for them years back... australian bank... moving billions in foreign exchange between countries every day... fun stuff. http://www.westpac.com.au/internet/publish.nsf/Content/PB+HomePage

Naa, i know you meant west pacific, free association locked on to the proper name.

I grew up in MN and haven't even been to Canada !!

US, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belorus, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland.

Next continent: South America. But I either want to go without the kids or when the kids are old enough to carry their own crap while hiking.

on edit--since you count both USSR and Russia, guess I will as well. So, make it 24. :)

I really liked it there, though I was only in Tallinn. I loved those stands where they sold those beautiful sweaters and things. The Old Town -- very interesting. And the McDonald's was selling something called the McFarmer!

England
Scotland
Ireland (North and South)
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Holland
Germany (lived 3yrs)
Switzerland (lived 6yrs)
Italy
Austria
Denmark
Slovakia
Hungary
Malta
Cyprus
Canada

:shrug: Been to Hawaii though

Canada
Mexico
England
Wales
Germany
Switzerland
Ukraine
Russia
Moldovia
Finnland
Israel
Miami
And some little country between Russia and Ukraine Trasminia or something like that. It was only a couple of miles wide at the time.

Now it's all ruined by the idiot in the White House. Of course, if he gets reelected, I may be moving to some other country.

which is more than most people. :shrug:

I wasn't old enough to remember much from Germany. My father was stationed there in the army and I was born there.

Canada when I was 10, Luxemburg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Iceland when I was 17. Took a two week trip for German class. Iceland was a two hour stopover on the way home.

I recommend overseas trips for teenagers. I'm sure my parents were terrified for the two weeks I was gone but it was a real eye-opener for an ornery teenager. I had never heard of the holocaust until I visited Dachau. Met two really nice Russians in the middle of the cold war. I figured that poor little Austrian inn was going to break out into a James Bond movie because two American girls were talking and receiving gifts from two Russian men who said in broken English that they just wanted to be friends with the Americans. I half expected to be carted off by the CIA and locked away in some prison just for smiling back. It was amazing how fast years of propaganda melted away and how foolish I felt when I realized Russians were people just like me who didn't want the cold war any more than I did.

Tahiti – Moorea and Bora Bora
Caymans
Jamaica
Mexico
Guam and Saipan, though those are really US territories
USA

South-Africa
Germany
East-Germany
Denmark
Netherlands
France
Austria
Switzerland
England
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Marocco
Belgium
Luxembourg
Czeck Republic
Poland

like to see: Canada & USA, after Bush

US
Mexico
Spain
Bahrain
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Pakistan
Oman
Djuibuti
Jordan
Somalia
Kenya
Seychelles
Mauritius
Philippines
Japan
South Korea
Singapore
Hong Kong
Canada
Thailand
Panama
Venezuala
Columbia
Ecudor
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Uraguay
Brazil
Australia
England

:P

Just kidding. I wish I could give my passport more of a workout.

We don't need no stinking passports!

The end of my wandering days approaches, when I go from PO1(SW) to USN, Ret.

Mexico, France, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Barbados (the following are not foreign countries, but US owned) -- Virgin Isles, Puerto Rico, most of the Bahamas.

usa, japan, mexico, jamaica, and canada.

USA
Canada
France
Italy
Germany (before and after unification)
Hungary
Czechoslovakia (and Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Poland
Austria
Netherlands
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Norway
UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
Ireland
Spain
Portugal
Andorra
Greece
Turkey
Yugoslavia (before the war-went to Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia)
Switzerland
Morocco
Tunisia
Egypt
Cayman Islands
Mexico
British Virgin Islands
Bahamas
St. Martin
Bermuda
St. Barthelemy
Aruba
Hong Kong

Bahamas
British VI
Peru
Colombia
Canada

edited to add Canada..oops

USA
Canada
Bahamas
Dominican Republic
France
Italy
England

USA
England
Belgium
Switzerland
Netherlands
Germany
Italy
Spain
France

Believe it or not, German (Bavaria) is my favorite. So pristine...people are wonderful and clean, clean, clean

Okinawa, Phillipine Islands, Wake Island (US?), England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Greece, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bahamas, Australia (R&R) and Cayman Island.

I have overflown many more, including frequent long night flights over Laos and North Vietnam, and a few flights over Cambodia.

Mexico
USA
Canada

Brazil
Syria
Israel
Egypt
Russia
Bosnia Herzgovina
Hungary
Austrailia
Tibet
Nepal
India
CHina

I made those last 12 up...I've never been to them. SO yeah three nations!:-)

:( I need to get out more.

:kick:

Greece (born there)
Germany
Mexico
Canada

United States
Spain
Mexico
Canada

Lived in two of those.

Canada, US, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad, England

On Edit: It's really called Trinidad and Tobago but I didn't go to the Tobago part.

USA
Canada
Mexico
UK
France
Netherlands
West Germany*
East Germany*
Denmark
Belgium**

* I went to both West and East Germany after the wall came down but before unification (June 1990). Since they were still separate countries at the time, that's how I counted them.

** I'm not sure whether I should actually count Belgium. I went through it on a train from Paris to Rotterdam, but didn't actually set foot in the country.

US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal. I may have been in Ivory Coast, just the airport.

Flying North along the west Coast of Saudi Arabia was a real trip. Flew over the Sinai
and the Great pyramids. Saw Vesuvius, the Acropolis, Kilimanjaro, and Mt Etna. fun stuff.

Canada (many times), the Bahamas (age 13); England, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands (age 17); Japan (at age 27 for a year with a whole bunch of return trips after that for as long as three months); Taiwan (age 35), and China (age 40).

I know it's time I went back to Europe. As one of my former teaching colleagues pointed out, my trip to Europe was closer chronologically to World War II than it is to the present day.

I hoped to go to Ireland and England for this year's international Japanese translators' conference, but I couldn't quite afford it.

U.S.
Mexico
England
Netherlands
France
Switzerland
Azerbaijan
Italy

Mexico(but never further than 5 miles across the Texas border), Japan, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Monaco (only 600 acres, but it's still a country), Italy (Sicily should count for another country), The Vatican (they have their own stamps), Austria, Germany, East Germany (pre-unification), Switzerland, Holland, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Belgium (saw the little pissing boy).

Would sure like to add Cuba to the list.

I bet the results will be astonishing.


Oh forgot to mention

US
Canada
Mexico
Guam
Australia
Grand Caymon
England
France
Germany
Yugoslavia
Holland


11

(1) The United States
(2) Canada
(3) United Kingdom
(4) Australia
(5) Singapore
(6) Malaysia
(7) Thailand
(8) Indonesia
(9) Czechoslovakia
(10) India
(11) Cyprus

Germany
Austria
Chezch Republic
Hungary
Holland
Canada

Would love to be able to travel more, but I'm just a working stiff.

England
Scotland
Belgium
Netherlands
France
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Austria
Hungary
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Canada
Mexico
Colombia
Brazil
South Korea
Japan
The Philippines

I guess that 20 counting the ol' U.S.A. All business travel, so no i haven't had a good time in any of them.
The Professor

Singapore
Nepal
Germany
Israel
Canada
Bermuda
Peru
Columbia
USA
Mexico

Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
India
Japan
US
Bahamas
UK
France
Italy
Spain
Switzerland

In order...

USA
Canada
UK
Netherlands
West Germany (at the time)
East Germany (at the time)
Austria
Switzerland
France
Italy


So, that's 10. 9 of which still exist. I really have to hit Mexico soon---it's so close to where I live now. :shrug:

--Peter

Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, West Germany (this was in the '70s)Switzerland, Austria...I think that's it.

Did not get to go to Greece and am still bummed!

US, Canada, Mexico, Italy, France, and Spain.

If you count the Principality of Monaco, then 7.

Viet Nam
Cambodia
Japan
Guam
Mexico
Canada
Scotland
England

USA
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Netherlands

uk
france
italy
gibralter(uk)
norway
canada
isreal
saudi arabia
morroco
crete(greece)
new zealand
australia
guam
japan
mexico
panama
greenland
barbados
costa rico
nicaragua
honduras
guatemala

most of them via the navy...some as a child with my father who was in the army......

edied due to memory lapse.....

I haven't travelled all that much. I want to go to the Czech Republic someday to see Prague. I've had dreams about it, before I'd ever seen pictures of it.

The United States. I'm going to Great Britain and Cananda next year, though.

USA
UK
France
Belgium
Denmark
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Finland
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Hungary
Czech Republic
Costa Rica

Never had the money to travel to anywhere.

Canada
Mexico
Belize
Honduras
France (by way of Martinique and Guadeloupe)
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines (my favorite!)
Barbados
Grenada
Trinidad & Tobago
England
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Norway
Sweden

as well as France, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands and the US.

USA
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Canada
Israel
Greece
Italy
Japan
Costa Rica
Netherlands
Scotland
Ireland
Britain
France

Canada
Mexico
Republic of Ireland
Northern Ireland
England
Scotland
Wales
Finland
The former USSR
Former Soviet Republic of Georgia
I think that's it...:shrug:

That's it!

New Zealand
Fiji
Tahiti
Panama
Barbados
England
Scotland
Wales
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Belgium
The Netherlands
Luxemburg
France
Spain
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Yugoslavia (before it split up)
Turkey
Greece
Macedonia
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Iran
Israel
Italy
Thailand
India
Singapore

And my native Australia. But Singapore, India, and Iran were only
brief stopovers, so I can't claim to have really seen the country.
But you did say set foot in ....

I only briefly stood on the tarmac in Ireland, but it counts!

Mexico
USA

Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Iran
India
Thailand
Germany
Italy
France
England
Canada
Mexico
Sweden
Bermuda
Jamaica

Canada and the US-
in april i'm going to spain though! =)

USA, Argentina, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands.

8 if you count Puerto Rico (the Schrödinger Country) :crazy:

USA
Canada
Mexico
Bahama
Samoa
New Zealand
Australia
Singapore
Maylasia
India
Nepal
Thailand
Pakistan
Afganistan
Iran
Turkey
Germany
Austria

I have only gazed into Mexico. My buddy said we would probably get robbed if we went to Mexico.

usa
canada
mexico
italy
spain
france
germany
andoria
england
scotland
romania
Thats it.
opps,oh yea
jamacia
grand caymen
bahamas

Argentina
Canada
Puerto Rico
Brazil
Mexico
Israel
France
Holland
Germany