What was the last place outside the U.S. you went to?

[mvd]

For me, it was Montreal, Canada. Canada's the only place I've been to outside the country.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Quebec City, Canada

[mvd]

2. I made the topic more specific

Thanks for the idea.

[DrDan]

135. Quebec City is one of my favorite places

I love the food, the people, the whole package - and it just feels like a trip to Europe but only a quick flight away

[Clintmax]

3. Italy.

Went to Rome and it was the most fantastic trip I've ever taken! If you ever get a chance to go there, DO!

[mvd]

14. I do want to go there!

I am a quarter Italian. My grandfather, who was full Italian, never got to go. So I want to make sure I go before it gets too late. Right now I have a franchise to pay for, though, so I can't go now.

[NMDemDist2]

4. Mexico

but just a border town.

before that a two week trip from Alaska through Canada on the AlCan

[Joe Fields]

13. That's something I've wanted to do, is take the Al-Can. I've heard

a lot about it, and it sounds too interesting to pass up. They say you need two or three spares, extra gas, and some other things.

[NMDemDist2]

21. I didn't have any tire trouble, but had a couple times gas got iffy

it's in a lot better shape than years ago and there are some stops along the road that are amazing :bounce:

[Joe Fields]

26. I don't know how much of it is paved,if any, but I heard it was mainly

gravel and it chewed up tires like nobody's business. Is it still mostly gravel? I bet you can go hundreds of miles without a gas station, also.

[NMDemDist2]

30. it's all paved. some of it is pretty bumpy from frost heaves but it's all paved

but you do want to fill up at every opportunity when you get far north

but people do it in RVs all the time and they get crap mileage

[Xithras]

130. It is NOT that bad any more.

It is paved for pretty much the whole length, and there are a lot more gas stations along the route than there were a few decades ago. You do have to PLAN your gas station stops, but unless you're driving some gas sucking monster, you don't need to take any gas cans. There's a gas station every 50-100 miles.

With a little luck, I'll be driving up next spring :)

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

5. Honduras.

Building classrooms--in July--the hottest place I've ever been. Before that, Canada on business and I lived in Sardinia, Italy, for two years.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear mvd!

Well, technically, it was England....

We stopped over there for jet lag purposes on the way home from our trip!

But the last country on our official tour was Germany!

Take your pick!

:hi:

[mvd]

8. Hi, Peggy!

I think England can qualify if you stopped over. Glad you had a wonderful trip! And thanks for the pictures. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. We did stop there!

The trip was great!

You're welcome, sweetie!

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. The Netherlands, about 2 months ago.

Amsterdam rocks.




(Kwak is actually Belgian beer, which I sampled in a little pub called Le Belgique.)

[evlbstrd]

20. Hell, yes, it does!

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Paris

Sigh....

[DrDan]

136. I am envious

I long for a late dinner on the Champs . . .

been there several times . . . but not recently . . .

[Joe Fields]

10. Victoria, B.C., and I wish I lived on Vancouver island...

[cloudbase]

15. Victoria for me, too.

Put a ship into the shipyard there. Nice town.

[Joe Fields]

28. Probably the cleanest city I've been to. It was refreshing to see

fresh flowers hanging in baskets from street signs, and not a scrap of trash on the streets and sidewalks.

[DrDan]

137. We have reservations over Thanksgiving in Victoria

can't wait . . .

spent a few short hours there a couple of years ago and have wanted to return ever since

[Left Is Write]

11. I have never been outside the U.S.

[JVS]

16. A worldly sophisticate like you never left the country? Unbelievable!

[Left Is Write]

39. I know. I find it hard to believe myself.

:P

[JVS]

17. Montreal

[flamingyouth]

18. Victoria.

[GOPisEvil]

19. Vancouver, BC

[HEyHEY]

62. thanks for calling, asshole!

[Aristus]

105. Me too! It was the last port of call on our Alaskan cruise. My wife and

I only spent a couple of hours in town, because we go to Victoria once or twice a year for our romantic weekends.

[evlbstrd]

22. Portsmouth, England.

Last liberty call on a North Atlantic cruise before coming home.

[Haole Girl]

23. Australia

This was taken from a helicopter, where the Daintree meets the ocean:

[Kali]

24. Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico and surrounding area.

Drove a rental car and stayed with friends. About a week in January of this year.

[Magrittes Pipe]

25. Paderborn, Germany

[Bjornsdotter]

32. by any chance

....were you at the university there?

It was one of the choices I was thinking of suggesting to my daughter for a year abroad.

Cheers

edit for spelling

[Magrittes Pipe]

73. I stopped by the campus.

But was not in attendance.

[wildhorses]

27. mexico

the year macarena came out

[Joe Fields]

35. What part of mexico?

:hi: :bounce:

[wildhorses]

37. cancun and cozumel

and too much tequila!!

[Bjornsdotter]

29. Sweden

....no surprise there. As usual I also visited Copenhagen, Denmark....my favorite city in the world.

Cheers

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. Paris.

Where I got my first-ever case of traveler's tummy, even after multiple trips to Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. So I gave up drinking water for the rest of the trip (spit out water to rinse my mouth after brushing) and stuck to wine and beer. It cleared up in a few days. :)

Also, on the same trip, Luxembourg, where I am related to about half the country, either by blood or marriage.

:crazy:

[av8rdave]

33. Either Caracas or Mexico City..can't remember which was last

[NC_Nurse]

34. Mexico.

1996, I believe. Can't afford to go anywhere abroad at eh moment.

[seemunkee]

36. Mexico, Maya Riviera

In February.

[MountainLaurel]

38. New Zealand

November 2005, for my wedding.

[KamaAina]

40. Toronto.

Again, the only place I've been to outside the U.S. -- in 1992! Shame on me.

I was struck by the fact that a local paper had a front page headline reading "Homeless People Spotted on Downtown Streets".

I couldn't tell you whether the guy in "Canadian Bacon" was right: "It's like Cleveland, only cleaner" -- I've never been to Cleveland. :shrug:

[Inchworm]

41. The Bahamas

Partay!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

42. The kitchen.

:P

[snailly]

46. LOL

I suppose then you went to the bathroom or possibly the living room. You crazy world traveler.

PS I like your sig line. ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

47. Nah, then I came back to my room and started doing some much needed cleaning.

Though I did stop in the living room for a moment to watch my roommate play Guitar Hero, haha.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

43. Ireland.

Mr. Wonderful and myself spent the Christmas holidays in our house in his hometown.

We drove to Niagara Falls and Toronto over Labor Day weekend in 2004.

[BarenakedLady]

44. Toronto, Canada

That was the last place.

I've also been to England, Scotland, Germany, France, and Switzerland.

[Omphaloskepsis]

45. I was in Iceland a few months ago..

Hot chicks, horrible food.

[Bjornsdotter]

56. Not a skyr fan?

.....I like the pear flavor.

Did you try the cured shark? if you did, my hat is off to you.

Cheers

[Omphaloskepsis]

60. Hákarl? Hell no. I would never eat that.

I lived on a steady diet of grilled cheese. And it was so expensive I had to eat in for most meals.

[Lautremont]

122. I was in Iceland a few months ago too.

Ittoday on the othay ickschay. I ate some pretty good food, though. Man, is it expensive!

[WilliamPitt]

48. Amsterdam.

White Widow.

*koff*

:smoke:

[Joe Fields]

132. Say no more...

[stuntcat]

49. Stonehenge

We went for a few days to Paris and then spent a few in London where we got a bus to Stonehenge. It was a real big deal for me, I'd always wanted to see it, since I was a kid.

[stuntcat]

55. (I forgot Canada is outside the US)

yah Toronto, last year :blush: :blush: :blush:

[fizzgig]

77. stonehenge was so cool

i'd wanted to see it since i was a kid, too

[greendog]

50. Inuvik, NWT

Spent three days there. Every bit as exciting as watching paint dry.

The drive up was incredible.

[Critters2]

51. Zimbabwe--well, England on the way home nt

[femmocrat]

52. Toronto for me.

I still hope to get to Europe before I get too old and decrepit to enjoy it!

[jakefrep]

53. Hamilton, Ontario

August of 2005.

[Robeson]

54. Aruba.

[Pale Blue Dot]

57. Jamaica, for my honeymoon.

Although certain things we've found out about their attitudes toward homosexuality means that we're unlikely to go back. :cry:

[otherlander]

58. Does Miami count?

:shrug:

[dpbrown]

59. St. Martin/St. Maarten

The island so nice they named it twice!

:hi:

[deadparrot]

61. Puerto Penasco, Mexico.

Two summers ago. :hi:

[Fox Mulder]

63. Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada

in September of 2005.

[likesmountains 52]

64. Nelson, BC...last summer for hiking..

[BrotherBuzz]

65. Baja California, Mexico

Sailed down the coast to deliver my friend's boat to La Paz. I sailed down and flew back.

Our plan was to home port the old racing boat in La Paz and fly down for 'long' weekends of fun in the sun during winters. Bummer, the boat was totaled in a hurricane after it was delivered, and I was able to make my getaway trip down there and play with it. I want to go back.

[SeattleGirl]

66. Victoria, BC

Been there about 7 times, and just love it. Have also been to Vancouver, BC once.

[sarge43]

67. Sahara Desert

Not recommend for a summer get away.

[hyphenate]

68. Toronto--which I consider my second home eom

[trackfan]

69. I went to Mexico for a wedding.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

70. Northern Europe.

Helsinki, Estonia, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm.

[Zoigal]

71. Guadalajara

Mexico. Daughter and family have lived there for
thirty years.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

72. New York!

[fizzgig]

74. oldenburg, germany

last march...drank a damn lotta beer :)

[Drunken Irishman]

double post

I guess I'm too drunk to post.

[Drunken Irishman]

75. Ireland, last summer. Visited the town my family came from.

It was pretty cool, I'd love to go back and live there. Especially if things don't improve here in the States. x(

[chieftain]

108. Welcome to DU, Drunken Irishman!

Where were you in Ireland? I've been twice and can hardly wait to get back.

[MonkeyFunk]

76. I think my last trip abroad

was Amsterdam, but it might've been Vancouver or Toronto.

[billyskank]

78. My house.

I'm there right now. :hi:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

79. Considering I don't live in the US

I am permanently out of the US:)

The last place I went to outside my own country was Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

[mvd]

91. Hi, SD1981

Yes, if you live outside the U.S., the best thing to do is say the last place you went outside your country. :hi:

[u4ic]

80. Edmonton...

:P



Since Schiphol (Amsterdam) was just a short stopover for a connecting flight, my answer would be Paris. :)

[MrSlayer]

81. Vancouver in 1992.

Of course I regularly visit many countries of the world on a regular basis at EPCOT center.

[Awsi Dooger]

82. Canada twice in 2005

Victoria during a stop on an NCL cruise returning from Alaska, and Quebec province a few months later when I was camping in the Saratoga region. I'll be in Saratoga again this summer and no doubt drive into Canada for a few days. Sadly, no Europe for many years.

[Orsino]

83. Vancouver, BC

Advance scouting.

[piesRsquare]

84. Israel n/t

[Burma Jones]

85. Costa Rica....Pura Vida baby...

[SCDem]

86. Mexico, Cabo San Juan

[AggieGal]

87. Barcelona, Spain

[ScreamingMeemie]

88. Bayfield, Ontario, Canada...Two weeks ago.

We're right across the border from Canada. We go quite often.

[achtung_circus]

89. Well,

I drove to work this morning.

[raccoon]

90. Cuernavaca, Mexico. nt

[bikebloke]

92. London

For work a couple years ago. Flying is such a hassle and no longer fun, that I'm glad I wandered much of the world already.

[joneschick]

93. Stuttgart, November 2005

time to warm up the passport again. :hi:

[elehhhhna]

94. Grand Cayman, late April

[eyepaddle]

95. Manitoba Canada--Whiteshell Provincial Park

and a town called Whitemud Falls. They are about forty-five minutes apart and are about two hours east of Winnipeg.

Yes, it was a whitewater trip!

Before that I went to Reykjavik Iceland in 2002.

[NewJeffCT]

96. China in 2004

going back again in a few months. I hope to get to see Xi'An this time around.

Last time, visited Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing.

Beijing had most of the famous sites - the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Tiannemann Square, the Summer Palace & the Temple of Heaven. Nanjing was probably the most attractive of the cities that I visited.

[mvd]

101. That's a country I'd like to visit

It's so different from the U.S in ways.

[NewJeffCT]

102. The weird thing was

Every place I went, they had signs in Chinese & English, except one... even in a small town we went to. Granted, a lot of it was "Chinglish" but you could generally get the idea. The only place where I saw no signs or anything in English was in a Chinese Wal-Mart, believe it or not. (and, the Wal-Mart was on the 4th and 5th floors of a high rise, oddly)

When we went, China was NOT a handicapped friendly nation - my wife had to flag down people to help us with our stroller in the Beijing airport, and her family helped us at the train station in Nanjing.

The people were very helpful and nice, though. Our little stroller seemed to have been misplaced on the flight, so my wife went to speak with the people from the airline, while I waited in the middle of the airport with a huge pile of luggage and an 18 month old child. Three women that did not seem associated with the airport or the airlines came up to me and asked, in English, if they could help me.

I did get a lot of looks, though. We went on a tour the first week, and our tour guides were all programmed to called Shanghai an "international" city - yet, I was rare enough as a white guy to turn heads in Shanghai.

[mvd]

118. It's a shame how..

most people in other countries speak English at least better than we can speak other languages. I'll have to build on the Spanish education I got.

[grace0418]

97. Vancouver. But I'm going to Spain, Italy and France in October.

Can't wait for that.

[Left_Winger]

98. Wittenberg, Germany

[fishwax]

99. Michoacan, Mexico

Beautiful place to see ...

[pdx_prog]

100. jonkoping, Stockholm, Sweden

Actually flew from Copenhagen to Jonkoping. Didn't get to play in Stockholm this trip. Drove from Jonkoping to Stockholm in one evening (3 hr drive). Stayed at Arlanda Sheraton and flew out at 6 am the next morning....:(

[NewWaveChick1981]

103. The UK in 2000.

:hi: I spent ten days traveling around England, Scotland, and Wales. I loved it! :)

[dysfunctional press]

104. Thunder Bay- Sault St. Marie, with an overnight in Nipigon....

we took a drive around lake superior.

[chieftain]

106. Beijing and Hong Kong

I loved it. I can hardly wait to get back.

[NewJeffCT]

107. where in Beijing did you go?

we did most of the big name tourist attractions - even got a Starbucks coffee in The Forbidden City... which just seemed wrong. I think they've gotten rid of it, though.

[chieftain]

111. I was there for a conference so I didn't have much time

but I made it to the Great Wall, Forbidden City and Tienanmen Square. We met with Chinese business executives and education leaders. I found them to be extremely courteous and interested in America. There is a vibrancy to the city which is very impressive. This was 2 years ago and I still communicate with several of the people I met. I would love to spend a lot more time there. Since my trip, I have read a lot more about the country, its history, geography and culture. Net time I will be much better prepared to explore China. I envy you your return, but enjoy.

[NewJeffCT]

112. This time

I'm hoping to get to Xi'An, and maybe Guilin. My wife's not too interested in visiting the Shaolin Temple, though.

Shanghai is not really a city for great historical sites, like Beijing. However, there are some amazing skyscrapers there - the Jiang Mao (not sure on my spelling) tower reminds me of the Empire State Building, on steroids.

I'd recommend Nanjing as well - it has the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, and the tomb of Sun Yat-Sen, the man that led the short-lived Chinese republic after the Last Emperor, and a few other sites as well. And, a lot of the main streets are lined by trees, so it's quite attractive.

[chieftain]

123. Thanks, I will put these on my list of thins to explore. Travel safe.

[CottonBear]

109. Munich, Germnay. It was too long ago (the mid1990s).

I love that city! It is so beautiful and cosmopolitan. :)

[Capn Sunshine]

110. Victoria, BC

wonderful city, and Canadians rule, eh?

[AlCzervik]

113. London.

[ceile]

114. Dublin

Love that city!

[gollygee]

115. Melbourne, Australia

in February

[SKKY]

116. Not counting Spain, because I live there now, it would be Hong Kong...

[DFW]

117. Brussels this morning,

Düsseldorf this evening (Station chief for Europe, so
pretty much a different country every day for me).

[terrya]

119. Toronto

Someday, I'm going to have to visit the rest of Canada. I'd love to go with my boyfriend.

[JoePhilly]

120. Texas

(joke, in case anyone thinks I'm serious)

[Xipe Totec]

129. See post #127

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

121. Paris

And I'm dying to go back to Europe and wander about again!

[maveric]

124. Tijuana Mexico.

Thats was 10 years ago. And I live near the border too.

[The Inquisitive]

125. Kansas

shitiest country ever

[querelle]

126. Saragosa Spain

About 3 months ago.

Q

[Xipe Totec]

128. You have my eternal envy nt

[Xipe Totec]

127. Texas

No, I'm not kidding.


Texas is a whole 'nother country.

[JoePhilly]

131. True ...

And when I lived there, they were proud to tell me that their state constitution still gave Texas the right to secede from the union. I kept telling them to go.

[sbj405]

133. Dominica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica

[DrDan]

134. Sweden . .

My wife is in the Gallapagos as I post . . . unfortunately, I could not get away from work long enough to go with her . . .

[spinbaby]

138. Japan

Love it there.

[Jimbo S]

139. Toronto, for our honeymoon in 2002.

Would have been going to Montreal in July if my wife hadn't been laid off in March. Have the passports and everything.

My only other travels was to Jamaica.

[jonnyblitz]

140. Amsterdam. nt