# Have you circumnavigated the globe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017 "2010-11-17T20:57:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017/41 "2010-11-19T00:58:57Z")
Dude, I didn’t even know it was Jewish! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017/42 "2010-11-19T02:22:58Z")
From 1998-2001 we moved from Ohio to Geneva, then Frankfurt, then Bangkok, eventually returning to Ohio. All “moves” were east. So my whole family has gone around the world. In 1997-98 I also traveled several times to Peru and Argentina, both south of the Equator. I’ve never been to sub-equatorial Africa or Asia, nor Australia/New Zealand. I came close during my trip to Singapore this year - missed it by that much. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017/43 "2010-11-19T04:11:58Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Crossed all longitudes, but not the equator. I still can’t quite believe the occasion (quite some years ago) when I passed up a chance for paid airfare and expenses around the world. :dubious: :smack: > > I’ve flown into Singapore’s Airport, including once when he had to dodge wide-spread volcano ashes in the sky. I suppose I could try to Google for it, but I’m on SDMB, so one of you probably knows. Did I cross the Equator on approach to Changi Airport from the North? (If so, Mods change my Poll answer, please.) > [@Giles](#): > > Highly unlikely: Singapore is more than a degree north of the Equator. Correct. You’d have had to swing quite far south into Indonesian air space. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017/44 "2010-11-19T15:53:23Z")
Looks to be maybe about 3/4s of it. Farthest west I’ve traveled from Minnesota is either Beijing or Perth (looks to be a tossup between the two). Farthest east I’ve traveled is Moscow, just barely edging out Arusha, Tanzania. I’m missing a good deal of Asia between the two. This is over my lifetime, not in one trip. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017/45 "2010-11-20T03:58:08Z")
W-E limits: San Francisco to Boston via Canada (by train), Boston to Nice, France, via air, Nice to Beirut by ship, Beirut to Baalbeck, Lebanon by bus - from 125 degrees W to 36.15 E, not all at once. N-S limits: America: Puerto Rico to Prince George, BC - from 18 to 54 degrees; Europe/Africa: Tangier, Morocco & Malta to London, from 35:10 to 51:30, Asia: Dead Sea to Istanbul, from 31:30 to 41 degrees. Again, not all at once. Never crossed the Equator. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017/46 "2010-11-20T04:04:19Z")
My missing segment for having cumulatively circumnavigated the globe runs from Halenkovice, Czechoslovakia (the village is now in the Czech Republic) to Pokhara, Nepal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-circumnavigated-the-globe/561017.md?page=2)