I think I've visited more countries than states. Sad.
One thing though that you really realize when you don't live in the US for a while is that the US is really, REALLY BIG. None of my friends here can even comprehend how big it is. Not even the ones that have visited before. My roommate from DC and I were telling our other roommate from Surrey that it would probably take a solid twenty hours of driving (no stops) for us to see each other and our British roommate thought we were exaggerating.
Also, the Scottish girl I work with was horrified that so few Americans have passports and my response was: "In the time it takes a European to go visit a new country, an American can go visit a new state--maybe. That's if they're not in Texas or Alaska."
It's an excellent point that the US is so damn big. I have never had a passport because I have never needed one. I have been down to Mexico on a cruise (ok three cruises total) but I've only ever needed my birth certificate for that. But over in the UK, things are much closer and it makes a lot of sense that you'd need a passport more readily. Interesting!
I'm in California so the state's kinda huge! And now that we have kids, we don't go further than Disneyland, Legoland, Magic Mountain. One day, though!
I'm from Wisconsin and even though Canada's in our backyard (well, if our backyard would take twelve hours to drive through) I've never actually been there. Instead of visiting the country closest to me I've go around to the other side of the world, lol
I come from a military family and we're a military family, so a fair bit of my travel (especially the international other than Mexico and the Bahamas) was all related to that. Of course, we have made an effort to get to other countries while we are here since they are all so close and as long as you stay on the Continent, there's not much hassle going between them. Heck, for most countries all it is is passing the 'Welcome to _______' sign and like driving from state to state.
And there really is so much to see in the US. One of the things we enjoyed about our first trip across country. After that, since they were all in the winter it was the same route across country other than my solo trip which was amazing across the I-70. Other than Kansas (sorry, it's flat and mostly farm once past Topeka), it was pretty amazing, especially Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.
I've been to a lot of places already, all over Europe and a total of 12 States. My dream locations (Alaska, Western canada and New Zealand) hasn't been added to the list yet, but I'm saving up for it.
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Really, we need to take a vacation together or something.
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Guess we're just homebodies!
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One thing though that you really realize when you don't live in the US for a while is that the US is really, REALLY BIG. None of my friends here can even comprehend how big it is. Not even the ones that have visited before. My roommate from DC and I were telling our other roommate from Surrey that it would probably take a solid twenty hours of driving (no stops) for us to see each other and our British roommate thought we were exaggerating.
Also, the Scottish girl I work with was horrified that so few Americans have passports and my response was: "In the time it takes a European to go visit a new country, an American can go visit a new state--maybe. That's if they're not in Texas or Alaska."
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I'm in California so the state's kinda huge! And now that we have kids, we don't go further than Disneyland, Legoland, Magic Mountain. One day, though!
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And there really is so much to see in the US. One of the things we enjoyed about our first trip across country. After that, since they were all in the winter it was the same route across country other than my solo trip which was amazing across the I-70. Other than Kansas (sorry, it's flat and mostly farm once past Topeka), it was pretty amazing, especially Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.
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