Despite my eight years in the Navy, only been to these places:
Italy (met my husband there)
New Zealand (where I was mistaken for a Fijian once and for a Western Samoan twice, though never for a Maori)
Antarctica (for 30 days)
Bermuda (got married there)
Panama (was there during Operation Just Cause).
So don’t mind me coming in a bit late.
I’m not nearly so traveled, but I’ve been to:
[ul]
[li]United States (home)[/li][li]Canada[/li][li]Mexico[/li][li]Germany[/li][li]Hungary[/li][li]Romania[/li][/ul]
Not too exciting, but that’s my life. 
I see that I never wrote to this thread…here you go then:
Turkey (my home country)
USA (17 states)
Spain
Germany
Belgium
France
Azerbaijan
Switzerland (quite a few stopovers)
I believe some dopers will feel the need to update their accounts…and others will feel like contributing to the collection of places visited by this extraordinary lot of people…
And a point in point: If a doper who knows me has been to Turkey in this 2 year period, and I don’t know about it, he/she will have a couple of explanations to make!!!
Well, I am better traveled than I thought - I rank in at a favorable 22/23 depending on strictness - in more or less chronological order, and all on my own steam:
South Africa (homeland)
Botswana
South West Africa (now Namibia)
Transkei (doesn’t really count, was an Apartheid homeland, and reconised as independant by SA, and no one else)
United Kingdom
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Austria
Italy
Vatican City
Switzerland
Luxemborg
US of A
Mexico
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Swaziland
Mozabique
Malawi
Zambia
Namibia (OK, I mentioned it already, but before and after counts??
)
Canada
On the agenda for the (near) future - at least that’s the plan:
Ireland; Israel; Jordan; Egypt; Turkey; Greece; Denmark; Norway
In the slightly more distant future:
Kenya; Tanzania; New Zealand; Australia
Me, infected by the travel bug?
Gp
While I’m not real keen on replying to a banned poster’s thread, it does give me a chance to pause and reflect. So here goes in approximate order.
The U.S. Der.
Haiti
Mexico
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
France
Peru
Canada
Arctic Icecap (it ain’t a country but it outta be)
New Zealand
Australia
Cayman Islands
Holland
Greece
Turkey
Sweet, 16.
My girlfriend and I have the travel bug. U.S.A., Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweeden, and Denmark. This year hopefully Norway or Scotland.
Ok, I’ll try to do this chronologically:
Iran
UK (stopover)
USA
USSR
Mexico
Canada
All over the US Carribean* (St Thomas, Puerto Rico, St John)
British Virgin Islands (all islands)
France
Ireland
Hong Kong
Malaysia
Thailand
Singapore
Korea
Japan (lived for 5 years)
Australia
Indonesia
The Netherlands (stopover only, but have done it MANY times)
Guam*
Saipan*
Germany (Frankfurt, stopover only)
That’s all I can think of at the moment.
*these should NOT count, because they are either US protectorates or US territories, but why not list them?
Hm, USA, Canada, Mexico, Bimini, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Sweden, Denmark, England, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemborg, Lichtenstein (haha on those last two), France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Austria. I may have missed one or two, but that’s what I can think of right now.
That’s about 26.2 countries, I think. Two of those were flight stop overs, but aside from the 0.2 (Lichtenstein and Luxemborg) the rest I spent at least a day in, usually many days or weeks. A few of them months or years.
Let’s see…
I suppose I could throw in the Netherlands if stopovers count, but somehow that feels like cheating.
I am a geek, I keep track. I am a well-traveled geek, though. 24 hours or more criteria, with the agency that FIRST brought me there. Total: 35, second to tshirts from the first page.
Personal Travel
Bahamas
Switzerland
England
France
Italy
Vatican City
West Germany
Cyprus
Greece
Austria
With the Marines
Mexico
Spain
Israel
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
United Arab Emirites
Oman
Bahrain
Business Travel
Canada
Hong Kong (Pre-Unification)
China
Taiwan
Thailand
Korea
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Costa Rica
Honduras
Guatemala
Panama
Ireland
Finland
Belgium
Also 43 states.
Japan
S. Korea
Peoples Republic of China
Macau
Taiwan
Philippines
Vietnam (South at the time)
Thailand
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Egypt
Morocco
Fiji
Niue Island
Western Samoa
Tonga
Panama
Mexico
Canada
Not technically countries:
Okinawa (before it was returned to Japan)
American Samoa (U.S. possesion)
Guam (also U.S. posession)
Gibraltar (British colony)
Hong Kong (before it was returned to China)
USA
Canada
Mexico
Ecuador
Colombia
Great Britain
Scotland
France
Spain
Germany
Italy
a few others when I was a baby (don’t remember)
Oops, forgot the US of A. 36.
In the order I visited
USA (I live here)
UK
Canada
France
Switzerland
Italy
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Ireland
Hungary
Austria
Czech Republic
That’s 13
I’ve also been to 34 states and DC plus 6 provinces and I’m only 17.
Hmmm… what say you all, that we agree to do like the Olympic Committee and recognize overseas territories, colonies, autonomous dependencies, etc. as “countries” if they are clearly culturally and geographically distinct from the metropolitan power?
My list:
Canada (incl. Quebec)
Panama (brief)
Dominican Republic
Mexico
Guatemala
USVI
Bermuda (brief)
Puerto Rico (home)
USA (2d home) (19+DC)
Finland (native country)
Sweden
Denmark
Germany
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Canada
Italy
Spain
Poland
Russia
Mexico
So 12.
Oh whoops. The Netherlands. 13.
Let’s see:
Well, it’s a start.
USA,
UK,
Canada,
Mexico,
Japan,
France,
Germany.
I need more money so I can travel more…
Ireland (home)
UK
France
Italy
Spain
Greece
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Switzerland (for an afternoon drivefrom northern Italy)
Liechtenstein (sp.?) (same afternoon - stopped for a beer)
Austria (same afternoon - crossed the border and came back)
Andorra
Monaco (another afternoon drive - different afternoon)
Croatia
Bosnia (its 2 mile Adriatic coast - couple of hours)
Malta
Czech Republic
Poland (another afternoon thing - border delays meant we made an evening out of it)
USA
Canada
Cuba
Thailand
Indonesia
Australia
So - 25 if you include day trips. 19 if you don’t. Eurodopers are at a huge advantage here though.
So far, not that many. The europeans have an advantage in this.
I’ll be moving to Germany in early November, and I hope to hit most of Europe while I’m over there, so I’ll stock up on countries!
I’ve also been to over 30 states, and I hope to get to all 50 someday.