Foreign travel - where you been lately?

In My Humble Opinion
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One of the things that has always appealed to me about the Dope is how international it is. I think it’s cool to interact with people from all over the world. And that got me to wondering:

  1. What was the last foreign country you visited?
  2. What’s the next one you plan to visit?
  3. What’s the one you want to get to before you cash in?

For purposes of this OP, “foreign”= any country other than where you are currently domiciled and “visit” = that was your primary destination, not some place you passed through on the way back home.

It doesn’t matter how long ago you traveled, or how far in the future your next trip will be. Also, if you want to mention where your home base is, it will add context.

For me (US national living in Hungary) the answers are:

  1. Austria
  2. UK
  3. Easter Island

So, where you been lately?

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American. The only foreign country I’ve ever visited is Canada (most recently in December) and it’s the only one I’m likely to visit in the foreseeable future.

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  1. The Philippines.
  2. I have no money, so no current plans. :frowning:
  3. Iran
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  1. Morocco
  2. Cyprus
  3. Can I count the whole Silk Road? If not, then Uzbekistan. Sadly, I don’t think it’s happening anytime soon; given how long it takes to get there, I think I’d want to spend at least 3 weeks, which is more vaaction time than I get in a year, and I doubt my employer would let me take that much at once, even unpaid.

Home base: Chicago area.

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  1. China (have been in the area since September). Taiwan, Mainland China (Guangdong/Guangxi/Guizhou/Chongqing/Sichuan/Yunnan), Hong Kong and Macau. Currently in Shenzhen.
  2. Not sure. Ideally the answer to #3, but I may go back to the US and get a job.
  3. Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam)

From southern New Jersey

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Hi!

  1. US for work
  2. US for work
  3. Norway

I’m an American living in Japan.

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  1. Netherlands (in October for my birthday, our 3rd trip there)
  2. Not sure, still deciding, but maybe somewhere in Spain
  3. Pretty much everywhere

American living in upstate New York.

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  1. I’m currently in Afghanistan, before that I was in Yemen for 3 months last year
  2. Wherever the job takes me.
  3. China

ETA: American, hometown: Washington, DC

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That’s the problem with being the new guy at the post office. They give you all the bad delivery routes.

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American, based in Boston and/or Seattle

  1. Grenada (about 4 years ago)
  2. Nothing specific planned, but England would be likely.
  3. Russia (St. Petersburg) and Turkey (Istanbul)
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  1. Munich
  2. Sicily
  3. Our immediate quandary at the moment is that we want to spend August driving an RV in the US, but we can’t afford $5000 to hire one for a month. On one hand, we may never get more than a month to do something like this there. On the other, is it really worth that much money for the tiny bit of the USA we could realistically see in a month?
    In the long term, I want to go everywhere. There isn’t one place I could pick out as my dream destination.

British in London.

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  1. Costa Rica
  2. Iceland (plan might be a strong word. more like, “hope to plan to visit.”)
  3. Hong King

Homebase: NYC

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*1. What was the last foreign country you visited? *

The US; I visited San Francisco (where I met a bunch of awesome dopers!) and Los Angeles over Solstice and Christmas (my grandma in LA turned 90 on Christmas Day!). Prior to that, I travelled around Europe in 2009, where I went to the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep, Austria, Italy, France, and Denmark.

*2. What’s the next one you plan to visit? *

No idea, but I’d like to go to some events in the US next year if I can.

3. What’s the one you want to get to before you cash in?

I’m not really there yet. I’d like to learn more. I liked Sweden even though I only got to stay in Stockholm overnight, so I’d like to stay there for a little while next time I’m in Europe. I have Korean ancestry, so that’s a possibility, but I know very little about the country and don’t remotely speak the language.

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American

  1. Bermuda
  2. Canada (Nova Scotia)
  3. Scotland
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American, West Coast based.

  1. In Ecuador last July.
  2. France in February.
  3. Gee, I don’t know… Maybe India, or New Zealand.
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Canadian, in Montreal.

  1. England back in April
  2. England or Germany this summer - we’ll be going to both on the same trip, we just haven’t decided in which country we are starting! The trip will likely include a few other countries, to be decided!
  3. Hungary - which might be done in the above-mentioned trip; I’ve just wanted to go since I was a kid and had a friend from Budapest!
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I’m an American, leaving in…America.

  1. Canada…but that was for work, and I didn’t see much other than the office. Last good trip out of the country was a dive trip to Bonaire.

  2. Costa Rica, for a wedding. (not mine)

  3. The Maldives are next on my dive trip wish list. I need to make it there while they still exist.

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American, living in Panama.

  1. Brazil, mainly Rio and the mountains nearby.
  2. Most likely is Peru, but Fiji is a possibility.
  3. Papua New Guinea and Nepal.
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Irish

was just in the US and England last Nov and Dec.

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I’m based in the United States, although I’m originally from South Africa.

  1. Jamaica is technically the last foreign country I visited, as part of a cruise that took us to Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Jamaica.

  2. I don’t have specific plans. I’m long overdue a trip to family in the “old country”, South Africa, but with a kid on the way that is a few years down the road. Based on my history I expect a short work or vacation trip that I haven’t even thought about yet will happen before then.

  3. I’d really like to visit New Zealand, based on the experiences of friends who had really nice things to say about it.