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    Default How extensive is your traveling? Which state/province was least pleasant?

    I travel a lot in summer time! Do you travel? Your number will tell!

    US states/territories count as 1
    Mexican states count for 0.1
    Canadian provinces/territories count for 0.01 because provinces
    Other North American countries count for 100!
    Intercontinental travel doesn't count!

    I've visited 33.11 states! ^o^

    Louisiana is the worst! Mud everywhere, the water has the consistency of milk, humidity, invasive frogs, and dilapidated infrastructure made my time there the most regrettable day of my whole summer!

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    I have been to.... Goodness.

    32 total states.

    That's not to say that I've been able to stop and sight see or do touristy things when I went to each state. I went with my dad in his big truck when I was little pretty often and so he was always on a schedule. Every now and then we would be able to stop and do something fun - if he was able to park his truck & trailer close to somewhere, but the biggest fun for me was when he would treat me to a night in a nice hotel room instead of sleeping in his sleeper. We would go swimming in the pool, then order room service in the room and get movies on pay-per-view.

    He'd bring his "shaving kit" in along with shorts & a t-shirt to sleep in and his clothes for the next day and I would lug in my little Spotty Dotty Suitcase with -my- clothes and my barbies and coloring books and stuff and I would unpack -everything-. I would put something in each dresser drawer. It was soo much fun.

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    I've been in two states! Louisiana and... i forgot. Probably Mississippi. I changed planes in Minnesota if that counts!
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    sorry yanks but travelling state to state is not proper travelling. Yea the miles racked up can be big but you're basically encounterign the same culture everywhere you go. It only counts if you travel abroad.

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    Five or six. Couple of Canadian parts.

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    120.2 visited twenty states, the Bahamas, and visited mexico twice. Tijuana and Cancun.

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    Erm... Based on that scoring, 0. I've never been travelling really. The only country I've been to was France, Paris on a school trip.


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    I should probably have seen more of Canada. Oh well maybe later.



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    lol at the scoring system (dat 'murica bias)

    i've been to something like 32 states i think: i'll list, you countHawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine

    4 Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec.

    No countries other than the US and Canada.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cuchulainn View Post
    sorry yanks but travelling state to state is not proper travelling. Yea the miles racked up can be big but you're basically encounterign the same culture everywhere you go. It only counts if you travel abroad.
    How incredibly wrong you are. America is a culture in itself, yes, but there are smaller cultures within that culture. Miami culture is not the same as Vegas culture, New York culture is not the same as LA culture, San Francisco culture is not the same as New Orleans culture. It's quite an achievement to visit all fifty states, and you saying it doesn't count is ridiculous.

    Eleven states (all in the West), Mexico, London, and around mid-southish Sweden.

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    Oh look, Cuch is making stupid comments and generalizations about Americans. Someone mark the calendar, we might never see that happen again. He might as well try to claim all of Canada has the exact same culture. Sorry, but culture is more than TV shows and Hollywood movies. You can't separate people by thousands of kilometres and not have cultural differences spring up over time. But I guess it's not super surprising that someone living on a relatively small island on the other side of the Atlantic might not get that.

    So far I've only been to all of the provinces from Ontario east, and Maine and Florida in the US.

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    According to my dad, I've traveled a total of 1 or 2 million miles in my life. He's got around 10 million and my mom has like 6 - 8.
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    Intercontinental travel doesn't count?! That just seems silly.

    I have been all over California, Washington, and Oregon extensively. I have also traveled to Arizona and New Mexico, and Nevada, and Texas, and Idaho, and Florida, and Georgia, and Alabama, and Louisiana, and Mississippi, and South Carolina, and now I live in North Carolina. Oh, I have also been to Alaska. And Maine. And Virginia.
    I think thats all.
    But I have been to Canada on a day trip and I have been to Mazatlan and Guadalajara, Mexico. I spent about a week in Guadalajara.

    Abroad I have been to Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Germany though I was just passing though, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Obviously the military gets me around a bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noxious.sunshine View Post
    According to my dad, I've traveled a total of 1 or 2 million miles in my life. He's got around 10 million and my mom has like 6 - 8.
    If you want total distance traveled, you'll never go farther than what you travel on this nice little space ship we call Earth. Over 194 billion kilometers around the galactic center and counting.

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