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jenevang

jenevang

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So, it's Travel Season and I'm living vicariously through all of you.

My husband and son are currently in Uganda (and we are from Georgia - the state not the country :giggle )

It got me thinking... where is the farthest place away from home you have been? And why were you there? Don't forget to tell us where you started and where you visited.

I'll start..

Home: Georgia, US
Traveled to: Spain for a Missions Trip. I loved every minute of that beautiful country. (and I'm so wishing I was in Africa with my men)
 
Home: Washington State
Traveled: to Fiji for my honeymoon in 2005. I also went to London, Barcelona, and Italy in 2001 for World Congress (of the Junior Chamber) and a side trip to Italy. I've also gone to London/Oxford/Wroxton/Bath for a school residency in 2009 & 2011.

I am desperately wanting to travel these days. I'm daydreaming of Ireland at the moment, but really would like to go back to Italy with my hubs.
 
I'm from Arizona. .. I've traveled to Toulose, France, and we drove to Barcelona, Spain in that same trip. My mom and I went to visit a friend that was doing a year abroad with her company.... i was only 10 years old at the time, so while I do remember a lot of the trip, I remember feeling bored with all the naked statues (now I'd love them for my art history fanatic side).
 
Home - Michigan, USA

Furthest Travel: Hawaii is probably the furthest - not sure. I also went on a Rainforest trip to Peru South America, but I would guess that is even closer than Hawaii to Michigan?! Would LOVE to go to Africa and Fiji yet in my life!!!
 
I have lived all over and been blessed to travel a few fun places too.
born in puerto rico, moved to Virginia, then to Florida as a family we did a cross country road trip from Florida thru Texas and across to California and up to Seatle.
Then to Alaska, then we lived in Japan. My dad retired in northern California, and I joined the military and went to Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Mississippi.
Hubs and I call New Mexico home, yet we love to go places. I was able to go to England and Scotland with our church and that was cool! I used to go to Mexico often, but not since September 11th.
I love to go, my kids are pretty great travelers, so it is fun!
 
Home - Canberra, Australia (a long way away from anywhere)

Furtherest - Vietnam and Laos - loved them. We are off to Singapore and Malaysia in a couple of weeks, should be fun, second time for both countries. hanging out to make it to Europe - but at least 24hrs on/off planes is not something to undertake lightly...
 
When I lived in Florida, the furthest I traveled was to The Bahamas, for vacation.
When I lived in Minnesota, I took a road trip through ND, MT, ID, UT, NE, & SD to see national parks and such, and also flew to the UK and Denmark to visit friends.
Now I live in Denmark, and I guess the furthest trips would be back to the States to see my family. I've also gone up as far as Oslo and east as far as Vienna.
 
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I live in Michigan, USA and I think the furthest I've traveled was to St. Kitts in the West Indies. My SIL went to vet. school there so she lived there for three years. She had a two bedroom apartment with no roommate, so my hubby and I had a free place to stay. We stayed almost 3 weeks and loved it so much we wanted to figure out how to move there and stay. I've also been to the Bahamas, Domican Republic and Mexico... all for vacations. My dream is to visit Paris and all of Italy and Fiji too someday. Hubby and I are hoping that once we get the kids through college we can start taking some trips abroad.
 
I've lived in Florida all my life. I was lucky that my grandmother LOVED to travel {and that my grandfather didn't like it so I was her travel buddy}. She took me to Europe twice (England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany). I've been to Mexico while in high school, Alaska several times, British Columbia for a work conference, London for my friend's work once, South America and the Caribbean on cruises. When she decided to do northern Europe, Russia and Hawaii I had little kids so I wasn't available to be her travel buddy anymore.
 
I have lived most of my life in NSW, Australia, so I guess that is home.
The farthest I have travelled is to Venice and Greece, but we were living in Asia at the time, so where already a third of the way there. It still took us almost a full day to get there.
 
I am from Alabama, in the US.

While I was in college, I traveled each summer- the first one I went with my college choir on tour of Great Britain- we went to England, Scotland and Wales.

The next year was the furthest I traveled: all the way around the world in one summer-(1994) as we went from Florida by way of San Francisco and Alaska to Khabarovsk, Siberia, then took the train to Moscow and flew back to New York so we were in all 24 time zones that summer (it was a mission trip- we helped fix up an orphanage in one of the largest cities in Siberia- Krasnoyarsk)

I spent the summer of 1996 on another mission trip in Catanzaro, Italy, (helping to build a missionary's home above a church) with 2 weeks in Rome and Switzerland at the end of the trip.

Since I got married, (1997) we have just been to Florida, Virginia, New York and Nebraska (and back to Alabama.)

My husband was in the US Navy, so he traveled a bit- to the Persian Gulf by way of the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal aboard the USS Harry S. Truman. Once he got out of the Navy, he got to take a trip to Singapore with Northrup Grumman so they hitched a ride over on a different Navy ship with a layover in Hawaii-- I'm still pretty jealous of that one!
 
the longer distance...Istanbul, Turkey-
I have been to Egypt too but I reckon Istanbul is farther away from Brazil?
I think the distances from London are similar....

First time I went to Istanbul I was living in Spain, In Palma de Mallorca, I was on a contract that required me to leave the country every 3 months to renew, so I would choose a place I had never been and go- It was AWESOME- that was before I met my husband, I think it was 1990-
Then we went to Egypt when I was pregnant of Sarita (1995) we thought with a baby we wouldn't be able to travel much (how wring we were LOL) so we got a loan and bought a car, a stereo and the trip to Egypt with a Nile cruise....time of my life again!!!!
we went to Turkey again in 2011, this time to South Turkey to a beach resort, but I want to take Sarita to Istanbul...I was there before it became totally Muslim though...not sure how the rules apply now...but never the less, my favorite countries in that side of the world, Turkey & Egypt!!!!
 
I live in Auckland, New Zealand and the furthest I've travelled is Vancouver,Canada.
 
Home Montreal, Quebec

I was asked to travel to Australia on a business trip a few years ago. figuring that this was a once in a lifetiime opportunity, I took some extra days and paid the ticket for my husband to accompany me. My business trip was to Melbourne, which is a great city. My husband has had a life long dream to visit the great barrier reef, so I gave hi the choice to see that or visit with relatives in Sydney, In the end he chose Sydney which is also a great city, but I regret that we didn't get to visit the great barrier reef.
Low and behold I changed jobs about a year after this trip and thie first place my company sent me was for 14 days in Melbourne Australia! So once in a lifetime became twice.
Australia is a beautiful. wonderful, wild country. If we were younger, both my husband and I agree we would move there.
 
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