That’s an interesting question. A perhaps equally interesting question is: “Where’s ‘home’, and why?”
When I travelled on business (which hasn’t been for a few years and, hopefully, will not be again), if I expected to travel for more than a few days, I’d get a secretary in the local company office to help find me a furnished apartment; no matter what we came up with, it was cheaper and more comfortable than a hotel room was. (It also prevented me from having to take Hobson’s choice on one memorable occasion). Thereafter, I considered that that apartment was home. On those occasions, I suppose that I could reasonably have said that I was never more than about 20 minutes’ drive from home. OTOH, I was considerably further than that from my home base.
“Kings die, and leave their crowns to their sons. Shmuel HaKatan took all the treasures in the world, and went away.”
Home is San Francisco. I have been to Ireland and England, going one way and Japan going the other way. I should comment that I didn’t pay for the airfair either time… special circumstance. I would love to see more of the Orient, and more of Europe. Amsterdam is a good idea…
Photons have mass!? I didn't even know they were Catholic...
Home (sequentially): southern Ohio and now western Illinois.
Went to school in San Antonio.
Been in all the US states except a few of the itty bitty New England ones. (grinning, you Yankees!) Oh, and Alaska and Hawaii; want badly to see both!
Been in most of the Canadian provinces except the very northernmost; haven’t hit Newfoundland yet.
Been through most of western Europe; e.g. Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc. (And yes, The Netherlands!)
Been throughout the Caribbean–on a Dutch freighter, Coldfire!–to Curacao, Trinidad/Tabago, Barbados, etc. Hit most of the islands while being chased around by a hurricane. (Uh, Coldfire, it was a total blast–there was this sailor’s bar in Maricaibo, but that’s another story…but gotta tell ya, the crew was blasted most of the time. We’d sit up in the pilot’s house (?) w/ the 2nd Mate, all of us getting blasted on Heinken and Johnny Walker Red.)
Cancun and the Quintana Roo (love Mayan ruins!), plus the usual border spots along the Texas border, and Tiajuna.
Venezuala in South America.
What can I say; I was blest w/ parents who weren’t rich but sure had wanderlust. It’s genetic.
Really want to visit Kenya, Egypt, and China. Anyone going soon…?
Veb
I’m glad those Dutch sailors where spreading our rich culture throughout the Carribian (sp?)… on a Dutch freighter eh… which company ?
FYI, all Brits claiming that Britania rules the waves - just ask Veb and she’ll give you the straight dope
Hey, Coldife, this was a few years back, but The Netherlands rule the waves! (Everyone else is trying to get out of the way…)
[smiling! joking!]
This was on the Royal Netherlands, or (sp) Nedlloyd Line. It was a total blast. The crew and officers were great.
As they very earnestly explained, the first night in port is to get laid, and then after that it’s to have fun…(?!)…who else do you think showed a bunch of young American (and 1 young Venezualean) around some of the seedier bars in rotten parts of forgotten ports?
I have very fond memories of it all. With a few reservations about the lifeboat drill, where NONE of the lifeboats would swing out from their davits…
A few more beers and we didn’t’ even care…
Anyone who hasn’t cruised cutthroat sailors
bars in the company of group courtly, if slightly drunk, Dutch sailors has missed an experience.
Wasted away in Margaritaville,
by way of Amsterdam,
Veb
Well, at the moment I’m far from home in a Marriot in lovely Kansas City (and somewhat homesick – miss the kids, wife and dogs).
Coldfire: I was tattooed in Amsterdam, then arrested in Belgium when I left.
To respond to the OP – Rome, Italy is the farthest I’ve been geographically from my home. To respond to another poster, the farthest I’ve been culturally — hmmmmm, that takes a tad more thought. Perhaps, NYC or LA? Paris? Disney? Tijuana? I guess one of the things I learned from my limited travels is that cultural difference are mostly superficial – the similarities are far more compelling.
Home at the time was Arizona, and I went to England, France, and Spain. Inside the US I’ve been to all but the upper left corner of the contental states (California, Key West, Maine) and most of the states in between.
From Amsterdam and London I’ve been pretty much through Europe from Sweden to Turkey, out to NYC, Montreal, Ottawa and LA, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Abu Dahbi for a day, and in February I’m off to Singapore, its going to be a blast. The furthest away I’ve been culturally, that would have to be Graceland.
You live(d) in Amsterdam ? You’re not Dutch now are you ? I’m sort of trying to keep up the cool-dude-from-the-country-where-pot-is-legal attitude around here, you know… competition is not wanted in this area
But seriously, where do/did you live ? We might have been neighbours for al we know !
Edmonton, Alberta to Norfolk Virginia this past summer… a girls 10 day trip… may virginia rest in peace haha… next destination… a little closer… Houston here I come…
We are, each of us angels with only one wing;
and we can only fly by
embracing one another
