The huge mountains and the emptiness, for starters. I come from New England, so I'm not used to seeing terrain features that rise above the clouds outside of my window. I'm also not used to seeing just absolute nothingness for miles and miles. There were times that I could go for a half hour on the highway and not see a single car.Originally posted by LuckyBoy1:
Hey! What's so different about my home State?... I mean except for the indoor plumbing thing!
I liked it a lot. I wouldn't mind going back sometime. I just can't help but wonder what happens when somebody has a breakdown and doesn't have a cell phone.![]()
Well, if you had a cell phone, who would you call?
To begin with, there is no AAA for tactors and if it's broke, you fix it or you freeze to death.
If you come across someone who's broke down, you stop for them... I know, it seems like an odd concept back East.
You are right. My parents moved me from Key West Florida, which has 10's of thousands of creatures per square foot to a land where there's 10's of thousands of square feet per creature!
I dunnow, New England has a hill called Mt. Washington that's a good sized rock. Then I remember complaining that Tenessee didn't have real mountains... until I actually tried to climb one!
Currently Live in USA
Lived in Germany off and on for about 10 years.
Been to (1 day to 1 year):
Canada
Mexico
Belize
Panama
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Virgin Islands
Iceland
Netherlands
England
France
Spain
Portugal
Belgium
Czeck Republic
Italy
Switzerland
Bosnia
Macedonia
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Bahrain
Kuwait
Iraq
Afghanistan
Kazakistan
The People's Democratic Republic of California (most depressing)
v/r
Stel
I have seen the Pacific and the Atlantic, but I never stepped foot outside American soil.
Wanna visit the Caribbean sometime.
But that's all a United States province, isn't it? Not a full fledged state or country.
Man those guys are smart...not being a state and instead just getting all the tax breaks. Or maybe that's the Virgin Islands I'm thinking of...those are in the Caribbean, aren't they? Don't feel like looking at maps.
If I had my own island, I'd make it my own country.
I'll add my little bit,
USA (live)
Mexico
Canada
Many Bahamian islands (Sar or drugs or migrants)
Aruba (Sar)
Ecaudor (regular deploy)
Panama
Honduras
Costa Rica
El Salvador (regular deploy place)
Puerto Rico (Sar or drugs or DomRep migrants)
Bermuda (SAR, found the people, landed drank beer all night, ate the worst pizza I have ever had and woke up to the storm still going on, nearly stayed another night but the over acheiving pilot decided to take off in 30MPH cross winds)
Cuba, if you accept GITMO as being Cuba
Jamaica
Thailand
Hong Kong (1992...dunno if that qualifies as China)
Some Portugese controlled Island (think they turned it over to china in 1999) off of Hong Kong so I could renew my visa for Hong Kong.
Shinzing China
Singapor
Indonisia
Think that is pretty much it. All those places I included we at least landed, stayed the night and drank beer at. When I first started doing this stuff, we use to base our flights out of resort islands and stay at very nice hotels..always go for the all inclusive, prediam goes a long ways thereNot to mention the free god awlful tasting beer. Now we stay at some military compound
and the over nighters at a resort type location only happens if we had to search around the area , land because of fuel (usually over 8 hours flt time by then, so once we touch down, we are grounded and heading to the hotel) or because something broke..yah, uh huh
it just all of a sudden stopped working and the closest place to land is this resort island
. Once, while patrolling around south america, we almost got diverted to land on the Galopagos and med evac someone, but they decided our plane was too large to set down there so they flew another crew out from somewhere else and we went back to our boring patrol
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Some people has really visited an enormously amount of countries!
Here's my list:
Norway, born and living here
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Germany (also when it was West Germany)
Netherland
Switzerland
Tchecoslovakia (sp?)
Austria
Spain (Baleares and Canaries)
Portugal
Italy (including Vatican and San Marino)
Greece
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Egypt
Tunisia
USA (east-coast states)
Had smaller stops in:
Iceland
Belgia
France
Liechtenstein
Think that's about it.
Skarphol