The Syndicate

I've been very much enjoying the photo albums.

Quin, we're basically doing most of the New Zealand part of your trip in a few weeks too! Sounds like you had a mostly good time (forget evaluating Auckland, it's not that great ;P - the rest of where you went is better!)

Glad you tracked down llama. Also, I had a similar thing when I went to Venice, kind of like 'I don't get it, it will be overrun by tourists, I don't think it's for me'.

I completely loved it, despite the tourists. At times, you can almost forget they are there. For someone who has a fascination with places where landmasses end and waterways begin, I think you may actually find you like it after all.

S~V~S wrote:I have been all over North America, and a fair selection of the Caribbean,but never in the Southern Hemisphere or the Eastern Hemisphere.

Other than visiting Bea, Texas (besides Daisy, MP & Faraday, my husbands family and one of my brothers is in Texas)and Montana, where I used to live and have lots of friends there, I would love to see New Zealand (unless they have the same spiders that can eat cats and snakes that they have in Australia, if so,I will skip that), Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia and the Netherlands so I can hang out with the Dutchies Moms.

We have

No snakes at all.
A total of one type of poisonous spider, with no recorded deaths.
No large predators such as bears, big cats, coyotes etc

Pretty much the most dangerous things here are the sheep

The plane trip isn't so bad. Stick a movie on, have a sleep, stick another movie on, you're there. It is hard to sleep, but I've gotten used to it a bit now. Actually, I love the flight to USA, it builds anticipation for arrival.

I didn't have an experience like that in Rome juliets (sounds bad) but I have to say Rome was my least favourite of the places I went in Europe. Prego, prego, prego. Everyone seemed like it was a hassle to deal with you. In Paris, people who didn't speak English tried hard to help us. Venice I just adored. England felt a lot like home (we have retained far more 'Britishness' than America, I guess because our independence didn't require any wars).

Sloonei wrote:My first real travel experience was a school trip to Ireland 3 years ago.

"Sloonei" actually sounds Irish to me.

I'm much like nutella and Jay with travel. I'd like to go to a lot of places. The problem is once I go places I also want to go back. And I'd like them to stay frozen in time so I can see them as they are right now...

Unfortunately, with a house and small child, it might be off the table for a bit.

Most of my overseas trips have been to Sydney and Los Angeles. Being a bit of a Disneyphile, I've done 8 trips that have at least involved briefly popping in to LA to theme park. I've done much of the East coast of Australia, San Fran, San Diego, Las Vegas, London and some other parts of England, Paris, Rome, Venice, Hong Kong, Dubai, and South Africa.

I really want to get to the Eastern US.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I like to keep a map tracking where I've been, within North American states/provinces and also countries in Europe. I've never been to any other continent.

The countries that draw me the most now are:
Greenland
Peru
Japan
New Zealand

It's a lot tougher in the post-Air Force era to make that shit happen, but I'll do it damnit.

I'm here waiting!