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Today’s question:
QUESTION: What’s the furthest distance you’ve ever traveled for vacation/business? (tell us the city, country)
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Cape Town, South Africa
Casablanca, Morocco.
Afghanistan, Helmand province.
Ohio but only once…actually once was enough. Way too humid for my liking.
Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines when I was in the Marine Corps. Since then, I’ve been back to the Philippines several times. Cebu City is my favorite city to visit. The people there are some of the nicest people I’ve met, they are friendly and hospital, especially to Americans, and the beaches on Cebu Island are beautiful.
One thing I’ve noticed is that the Filipino people are appreciative of what we did for them in WWII. I know some Filipino’s living here in the US that have become US citizens and are proud to be Americans, they pledge our flag and sing our national anthem. Another thing I like about the Philippines is that a lot of them speak English.
Kiev Ukraine. And west to the border with Poland. The ethnic Ukrainians were very friendly. The ethnic Russians not so much.
It was for business, the furthest I traveled was to Stockholm, Sweden (got to see Viking burial grounds and eat reindeer in a castle).
I lived in Stockholm, I think its one of the best kept secrets of Europe, especially in summer, the Venice of the north!
It was a great place to be/ unfortunately, I was young and broke, so aside from business dealings, did not do much but walk around. Lived in the midwest at the time, so a hilly city was new to me. Would live to go back (having Swede blood in me) now that I can enjoy a bit more.
Cooks Bay, Moorea, Tahiti
Pleasure – pure pleasure ….
Coast to coast, border to border, small bit of Canada.
I’ve been to “I can neither confirm nor deny,” but I couldn’t actually see it.
Tokyo, Yokohama and Hiroshima Japan. Vacation and had lots of fun.
People were gracious and food was delish!
We’ve traveled around the world, but distance wise probably 9000 miles or so — a vacation to Australia.
Humm….there were 2 trips I can think of we did, but not sure which one was further. Both were to visit our Daughter & Son-in-Law while he was in the Coast Guards.
Puerto Rico & Cordova Alaska.
Both took 13+ hours of Airplane travel, which I may not do again.
Hi Roz…at least you can drive now. Do a little sight seeing. Hope you are doing well.
Been around Europe a few times but if I had the chance I would love to see the ancient ruins on the Pacific coast of South America. They are as old as what is found in the middle east and they keep finding older civilizations ever year. We still have no clue as to what went on thousands of years ago. All over the world are ancient images of what they thought was God holding two staffs. One in each hand. That doesn’t happen by accident.
London, via Singapore and back to SFO, so complete trip around the globe.
SFO direct to Singapore was very long…! London to SFO was the shortest leg at around 11 hours!
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Venice, Italy.
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Toured India in the 1990s.
Tahiti. Bora Bora is fabulous.
All during vacations
East- Innsbruck,Austria; -short visit after skiing the Dolomite’s in N. Italy
West – Bridge over the River Kwai (Khwae), Thailand; (30 miles from Myanmar border)
North -Amsterdam, Netherlands; (flew over the Tundra going home)
South – Pataya, Thailand
and many points in between
For business 6 weeks in Mexico City and 3 weeks in Zurich (very expensive there)
In 2000 we toured the Andalucia area of Spain.
Well….. I’ve never been to Spain
@Dr Jellyfinger…”… but I kinda like the music…”…https://youtu.be/w3_iO-r6AGQ
Trailfamadore
@Martinezmike….That’s close to my home planet Gallifrey, the weather suits me better.
Obviously not far enough I still have general public near me that are off their rockers. It seems you can travel to the ends of the earth and yup there they are..
At least we moved up, we don’t fly commercial airlines anymore like cattle being moved to slaughterhouses.
Berlin, Germany
I’ve driven through 44 states. It was how my family took vacations, back in the day. We drove to Alaska in ’72 and Mazatlan in ’74. In ’77 we drove to D.C. and then north into Canada, across to Banff and then back home. In ’78 we drove to D.C. again but then headed south to Disneyworld, New Orleans, Texas, New Mexico and home.
I was also stationed in Korea while in the Army.
I was very fortunate that my dad was in the Air Force. I have lived in 4 states ( coast to coast ) and traveled to or through many more. I have also lived in 3 different countries on 2 different continents. I graduated from an American highschool in Europe.It was a great way to grow up.
Early 80s…went to Austria, Hungary , Yugoslavia and Switzerland.
Otherwise lived in Alaska for a year, when I was young. (Beautiful, I loved it)
And have traveled around U.S., including Hawaii. Been to Mexico, when I was young too.
Cabo. I recommend it. Food was great and cheap. The beaches and oceans are very different than those in California. The ocean positively rages. Makes California oceans look very tame.
You couldn’t pay us enough to go anywhere in Mexico. It ain’t that nice and it ain’t all about cheap unless you can’t afford anything else.
I wouldn’t mind going there if Mexico wasn’t so corrupt. Going to Mexico for me would be like driving the streets of Oakland. Something I would never do.
Only did Mexico once. I was in Manzanillo & I stayed at Las Hadas for 8 days. Really nice…. and the best sailfish fishing in the world.
I had a blast.
Esfahan, Iran
Literally all over the world.
Those days are gone, tho, I’m afraid. The world is too whacked out now to travel like that anymore.
Pretty far.My first international trip was from Copenhagen to Israel, we took the train from Copenhagen to Venice, then a boat from Venice to Haifa.
Next year I flew for the first time Copenhagen to Reykjavik, Iceland. Then my big trip Copenhagen to New York, living on the East Coast I made several trips back to my native Denmark. Then in the mid seventies I (and my ex husband) moved to California, so the trip back to Denmark were a lot longer than from New York. There were no direct flight from SFO to Copenhagen, so a long trip.You either had to fly to LA or Seattle to get a flight to Copenhagen, or change in Scotland or Amsterdam.
Singapore (even though the climate was so very hot when we were there).
MANY years ago: Business for my husband (because he was Captain of the plane). Vacation for me, especially the entire day we spent at their Zoological Gardens. It was incredibly clean in the city, but it seemed to me that the people were not nearly so spontaneously friendly as those in Japan and Hong Kong had been during our many trips to those countries.
The passenger brochure on the plane reminded everyone that smoking and chewing gum was not allowed in public, and women’s upper arms and heads should be covered.
Tricarico Italy to visit family while on a vacation all around Europe. The Nordkapp, Norway (on the Barents Sea), which is the northernmost point you can drive to in Europe. We were on a cruise and docked in Honningsvag and took a tour bus to the Nordkapp. Norway is the most beautiful country we have ever visited and Italy is amazing.
Over 60 countries so far, but furthest traveling east probably Moscow or Mumbai, and furthest traveling west would be Thailand or various points in Australia. Just back from New Years in Alaska. Anxious to travel further after covid!
For business one of the following:
1 – Malta
2 – Bankgkok, Thailand
3 – Nanning, China
Cairns, Australia (Changed planes in Sydney) 8950 miles.
Chengdu, China (Changed planes in Seattle and Beijing) 7130 Miles
When in service went from Colorado Springs by train to Kansas City, then commercial airline to Seattle to catch a military flight to Frankfurt Germany for a total of about 7500 miles. As a lowly ranked E-6 traveling with officers, I had to be responsible for weapons transport on the commercial flight. However, I got better compartment on the train than if I were traveling alone.
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