Where y'all been to?

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My sole visit to Ohio was sadly for a funeral service of a fellow airman who left a young wife and child behind. It was a sad trip.
 
Last summer I drove my family 5500 miles from Minnesota down to the Southwest and back.
We saw the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forrest, Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wall Drug, and some of the most beautiful driving ever.
Phoenix in July is hot hot hot but it was a great to see the wife’s family.

Didn’t miss a single weekend Mass.
We went to Mass at a basilica in Des Moines, a nice church in Phoenix, and then in Albuquerque. Also went to Mass at St Paul’s Cathedral in St Paul MN before we got back home.
Spent way more than we should have, but our 5 and 6 year olds will remember it forever.
 
Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma,Tennessee,Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin are the states I have traveled through in my life.
 
I have lived in Illinois, not been to Guam, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, or Utah. Some of my mom’s family is from Oklahoma via her mother, but I’ve never been there. I actually visited the Virgin of the Poor shrine in Tennessee.
 
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I’ve been to a little over half of the states, though some I only drove through. In Minnesota’s case, I may have only been in the airport. I can’t remember if I ever crossed over the border when living near where it, Wisconsin, and Iowa come together. I’m probably going to add Utah and Texas to the list within the next year or two.

Outside of the U.S., I’ve been to Canada, Italy, Switzerland, and India. If counting those places where I was just in the airport, you can add United Arab Emirates and Portugal to the list. I’m hoping to get back to Italy and Canada some time in the future, and it would be nice to see more of Dubai and Portugal than just their airports.
 
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I’ve lived in Ireland,India and Africa for short periods of time,and also visited
America,SrLanka,Singapore,Denmark,Scotland and England.
 
I have known a couple people who made it their goal to see as many different countries as possible.

One was the brother of one of my past bosses who was trying to visit every country in the world. He was working on the -stans (Kazhakstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan etc.) last I heard. He also wanted to see every species of penguin in the world. There is one species that only lives on a very remote Pacific island where no one travels, so he had to get a passenger boat to somehow pass by this island so he could see the penguins from a distance.

The other person was a former work colleague of mine who was supplementing her work income with game show winnings. She won championships on a couple very well-known game shows. Unfortunately she ended up committing a weird high-profile felony and landed in prison among other consequences.
 
I’ve never been to the US! Have been to England (quite easy since I live here), Scotland and Wales. Various parts of France, Spain, Italy, Vatican City (it’s a separate country 😛), San Marino and Iceland. Hoping to tick off a few more in the next couple of years.
 
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I’ve been to about 15 states.

I’ve been to Canada, Ontario and Quebec regions.

I’ve been to Mexico.

I’ve been to Aruba, which is part of the Netherlands.

I’ve been to Greece. Italy and Vatican City.

I’d really love to go to Malta. And Spain.
 
I think, when you know that the Italian Peninsula is made up of three different countries, it surprises people, most people know about the Vatican, but seriously, a lot of people I talk to have never even heard of San Marino.
 
I’d like to go to Malta too, my great-aunt, she was born in the United States, but has lived in Mexico most of her life, and she said that she really likes Spain. Of course, she has the money to travel there.
 
I would not mind going to Croatia, I think the World Cup probably did wonders for their tourism industry. I don’t know many people who have actually been there.
 
My sister has been to Dubai, because she used to live in Bahrain, but she had to leave the country every 30 days, so what she did is she went to the UAE or Kuwait.
 
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I have known a couple people who made it their goal to see as many different countries as possible.
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One time when waiting for a flight in the airport, I overheard a woman talking her plan to get to 150 countries before her next birthday. It sounded like she had been to a lot already, but it also sounded like she really didn’t visit many countries so much as cross the border just to say that she did.
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a lot of people I talk to have never even heard of San Marino.
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I tend to forget that it is actually part of the Italian Peninsula. For some reason, whenever I hear about it, I think that it is a small island off of Italy.
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My sister has been to Dubai, because she used to live in Bahrain, but she had to leave the country every 30 days, so what she did is she went to the UAE or Kuwait.
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When in India, one of my friends was from Dubai and had to travel back periodically or lose some status that made it easy to enter the country. Her and I talked a bit about me trying to get there during one of those visits so that she could show me around the city, but we ultimately lost touch with each other.
 
On one of my visits to Switzerland, I took my son. We stayed in a little Swiss inn. It was exactly a scene from one of the Pink Panther movies. Went to check in, there’s this little old Swiss gentleman, smoking the pipe, on his rocking chair. There in the lobby was this little dog. Cuckoo clock on the wall. It took all I had not to say “does yer dewg bite?” Instead, I just started laughing. I mean, it was an absolute ringer for that scene.
 
The navy has a slogan “Join The Navy And See The World” and it is a very true statement.
In other words I have been all over the place .
 
I am mostly Scandinavian, American Indian, and Scottish. I’ve met people from Scotland, and I have books about Scotland, seems like a beautiful country. Sweden, too cold. I like Italy a lot, I think I want to go to Italy one of these days.
 
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