# Stranger to blue water? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-to-blue-water/986105 "2023-06-26T01:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-to-blue-water/986105/1 "2023-06-26T01:38:25Z")
As I said in another thread, we’re watching _Kingsman: The Golden Circle_. ‘Merlin’ likes John Denver’s _Take Me Home, Country Roads_. I’ve noticed that that song seems to be popular and known worldwide. Like, in addition to this movie, I think it was Anthony Bourdain who found himself in a carful of strangers somewhere in Asia, everyone’s been drinking, and suddenly everyone started singing it. (‘You haven’t lived until you’ve found yourself drunk in a car in [Cambodia/Vietnam/Wherever] with a bunch of drunk strangers singing _Take Me Home, Country Roads_’, or something like that.) But that’s a topic for another thread, which someone can start if they want to. _This_ thread, is about being a ‘stranger to blue water’. I was born in L.A. County, near the Long Beach Naval Station. I lived inYokosuka, JP, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Birch Bay (on the Salish Sea). Even Lancaster, in the Mojave Desert, was only a couple of hours from the ocean. Basically, I’ve lived near salt water all of my life. Are you a ‘stranger to blue water’? Do the Great Lakes count? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-to-blue-water/986105)._