1. #81
    GoToAway's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally posted by LuckyBoy1:
    Hey! What's so different about my home State?... I mean except for the indoor plumbing thing!
    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.

    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.
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  2. #82
    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!
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  3. #83
    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
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  4. #84
    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.
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  5. #85
    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 there Not 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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  6. #86
    I have been to 3 so far..
    Japan (lived)
    Canada (Visited)
    Usa (Living)
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  7. #87
    Here's the list
    Canada (where I live)
    USA
    United Kingdom (lived in England, and visited Wales and Scotland). Hold the flames. The UN says you're all one country.
    Venezuela
    Greece
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    Bearcat99's Avatar Senior Member
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    U.S.
    Canada
    Mexico
    Virgin Islands
    Guam
    S. Korea
    Phillipines
    Japan
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  9. #89
    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
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  10. #90
    GerritJ9's Avatar Senior Member
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    Oops......... forgot I also visited:
    Bahrain
    Mauritius
    Seychelles
    Bangla Desh

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