How many of you have visited these places?

Seen them all, except Kamloops Lake. Also have flown over all of them, except the lake.

For those that haven't flown, what's holding you back?
 

Yes, you should see New England in the fall, but don't bother in the winter, especially this winter!
 

Flying today is much easier than in the early days of TSA. Not as many hassles as there were previously. In some airports, passengers can keep their shoes on and do not need to remove their laptops from the case. Mostly now, it is just required to empty your pockets and take off your jackets. Other than that, getting through security is back to being a breeze. Not saying that all airports are as accommodating as the larger airports, but it is easing and getting better all the time. You may also register in the TSA Trusted Traveler Program and bypass all of the BS. (After you secure a know traveler number (KTN) from the TSA.)
 
oldman said:
Flying today is much easier than in the early days of TSA. Not as many hassles as there were previously. In some airports, passengers can keep their shoes on and do not need to remove their laptops from the case. Mostly now, it is just required to empty your pockets and take off your jackets. Other than that, getting through security is back to being a breeze. Not saying that all airports are as accommodating as the larger airports, but it is easing and getting better all the time. You may also register in the TSA Trusted Traveler Program and bypass all of the BS. (After you secure a know traveler number (KTN) from the TSA.)
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No thanks, I'll drive and avoid the crowds.
 
I've paddled in the Pacific Ocean; but from an entirely different continent, and been to Canada several times....yes I fly!
 
Pacific Ocean when I lived in B.C., Banff and Rockies and across Canada, but never as far north as Kamloops Lake; Golden Gate Bridge when visiting California, New England where my in-laws live, Niagara Falls here in Ontario -- there are so many beautiful places still to see.
 
Well I've crossed the Pacific about 15 times traveling to Hawaii and swam in its beautiful warm aqua blue waters, flew over the Grand Canyon low enough to get a small glimpse, traveled to Nova Scotia, Canada and had the good fortune to get to Germany, Austria and Switzerland (simply beautiful).
 
A guy I used to know was bragging that he'd seen almost every state at one time or another. Turns out he was flying over them and to him that meant he'd seen 'em all.
 
Living on the east coast of Aussie I see the Pacific every day. Jan, the kids (when they were young) and myself did a 24 day tour of the west coast of the US and Canada. What beautiful countries. If I ever get a chance to do it again I would like to go the east coast and see where history was made, the Revelutionary (sp) and Civil war places. I'm 69 and my dream is to island hop across the Pacific in a 40 foot yacht. I might do it yet.

Wylie
 
Sterling Hayden in his book "Wanderer" wrote...

"I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.

What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life? ”
 
I haven't seen enough of the U.K. yet to want to go anywhere else just now (except to Belgium, to stay with my son and his family) there are so many beautiful places here in the U.K. to see.:)
 
Bee said:
I haven't seen enough of the U.K. yet to want to go anywhere else just now (except to Belgium, to stay with my son and his family) there are so many beautiful places here in the U.K. to see.:)
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Bee, you haven't been trying. Everything is so close by car or rail. Get going girl, even if only for weekend trips.
I agree that there is so much to see everywhere that you will never see it all but do try to see as much of it as you can.
 
AZ Jim said:
Sterling Hayden in his book "Wanderer" wrote...

"I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.

What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life? ”
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Where there's life, there's hope Jim. There's still a lot of go in this body.

Wylie
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Bee, you haven't been trying. Everything is so close by car or rail. Get going girl, even if only for weekend trips.
I agree that there is so much to see everywhere that you will never see it all but do try to see as much of it as you can.
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Excuse me, what do you mean I haven't been trying, I have seen an extensive part of the U.K. thankyou, but there is always more to see and as for saying everything is so close by car and rail, you have no idea.
 
My apologies. I thought you were saying that you were saving up your travel plans for retirement.

There is so much that is fascinating to see in the British Isles, and yes, compared to over here, it is close by road and rail.
I'd love to come back again to see more of England but for us this is a very expensive exercise because of the distance and cost of fares.
 
I've been to or through 11 states, but mainly to Minnesota and Rhode Island. So, I haven't made it to the West coast, but I have seen the Mississippi. Unfortunately, a lot of Brits seem to think that the USA consists of Disney and Florida:rolleyes:.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I've been to or through 11 states, but mainly to Minnesota and Rhode Island. So, I haven't made it to the West coast, but I have seen the Mississippi. Unfortunately, a lot of Brits seem to think that the USA consists of Disney and Florida:rolleyes:.
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Very true. I was telling colleagues years ago that we were taking our holiday in Florida. A couple of them said ohhh I just love Disneyworld. They looked baffled when I said we weren't going there. We were going to the Gulf to kayak.
 
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Dame Warrigal said:
My apologies. I thought you were saying that you were saving up your travel plans for retirement.

There is so much that is fascinating to see in the British Isles, and yes, compared to over here, it is close by road and rail.
I'd love to come back again to see more of England but for us this is a very expensive exercise because of the distance and cost of fares.
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I think you have confused me with some one else because I have never said I was saving up my travel plans for retirement.

Bit silly comparing the vastness of Australia with the British Isles plus it depends where you live in the British Isles as to how long it takes to travel anywhere..............for instance from where I live I can travel by train and arrive quicker in Belgium than I can with several places in the British Isles.
 

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