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One too many!
Sat having a drink with some rather nice Americans sat behind us having a discussion, one man said.
"if any ni##er comes near my house, I would blow their brains out"
The others laughed and agreed
We left, wouldn't consider going back again.
Florida, Miami airport.
We left, wouldn't consider going back again.
You know not everyone's like that, don't you?
Sadly I won't ever get to visit any of them.
Bad once, bad for life. Apparently...
People in the U.K. say that kinda thing too, and we're not all like that.
#Brexiteers.
Just 5. But I've been to around 80 different countries last time we did a count in the office. Then I was accused of cheating as several were before the split of the USSR and they wanted the Caribbean to count as one place...
What do they teach instead of geography these days?
5 ...
new york
vermont
new hampshire
massachusetts
maine
I am not allowed in the USA so none for me. Bummer 'cos I'd love to visit but not worth the risk of lying to get in.
Edit..
Washington
Oregon
Florida
N Carolina
Virginia
DC
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
Illinois
New York - both ends (NYC & Niagara)
@eddiebaby but if you visited the former Soviet republics whilst they were still part of the USSR then you just visited the USSR as that was the sovereign state at the time. Agree with the Caribbean though.
I was going to say none, but I stopped in Bangor to refuel on my way to Venezuela, so that might count. I have, of course, been to plenty of states, but they weren't "United".
5 .... lived in SoCal for 6 months
Good question but
I wonder how many your average American has been to ??
7 (unfortunately 5 of them for work)
California
Nevada
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Ohio
Chicago
California*+
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota*
Texas
Utah*
Virginia
Washington*+
Wyoming
DC
*These are the only ones that count as they are the only ones I've ridden in.
+ Live/Lived there.
I wonder how many your average American has been to ??
Far less, probably.
They don't tend to travel anything like as much as the middle class outdoor sportspeople of this forum. They also seem to have a very different relationship with the landscape.
Just California for work.
Whilst in San Francisco I did hire a bike (about 35Kg) and ride over the Golden Gate bridge to buy a huge macadamia ice-cream in Sausalito.
😀
I then rode it over the hills to Golden Gate Park with all that ice-cream sloshing around
😳
I agree with molgrips
You need to think of America on the scale Europe but without the variability between different parts. For most Americans there is little reason to go to many of the other US states especially in the mid-west.
Not so many Americans travel outside the US too. ~35% of Americans have a passport compared to ~76% of us Brits.
Actually I tell a lie - been through New Jersey as well (Newark airport) when visiting NYC
I wonder how many your average American has been to ??
Probably as varied as the number shown here. Some will have hardly been out of their own town/city whereas others will have been to many parts of the country. A useful comparison would be asking how many European countries you've been to outside the UK - 11 in my case.
You need to think of America on the scale Europe
Yes. Imagine if an Australian didn't want to go to Sweden after listening to Viktor Orban spouting off about refugees. You'd challenge that wouldn't you?
South Carolina
New York
California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
The last 9 of those were undertaken in a 55 hour Greyhound ride from San Francisco to Milwaulkee.
San Francisco
Been there
Milwaulkee
Been there
I haven't been to Arkansas, Hawaii, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska or Oklahoma.
So 44 of em. Over 1.5 years in an RV with bikes. Amazing riding!!!!
Hard to get back to a normal existence after that!
But they all look alike. They look like the inside of a taxi, or the inside of a hotel, or the inside of an office, or the realization of a life wasted.Which is why I always now bring my bike.
^^^This. 10000x This^^^^
I started taking my commuter bike to places like Barcelona and Madrid as they're nice to get around. I now try, wherever possible to take a bike wherever I go. Reckon I'll be off to helsinki around christmas so the fatty will be accompanying me out there. Having a bike makes a huge difference to what you're able to see and do.
Illinois
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
DC
New Jersey
New
York
Massachusets
Rubber_Buccaneer - Member
Well, I've been to Hastings and I've been to Brighton
I've been to Eastbourne too....
So What?
(top quoting there R_B, top indeed)
But they all look alike. They look like the inside of a taxi, or the inside of a hotel, or the inside of an office, or the realization of a life wasted.Which is why I always now bring my bike.
Same here - always have to get out on foot or on bike, wherever I am. That's what I'm saying about the relationship with landscape.
7
35. Vermont, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Delaware, New Jersey.
Mostly from 3 bike tours and 2 fly drives. A few more from coast to coast by train. A few by Greyhound and Vermont is from a ski trip in 1971.
Given I lived there for 3 years I feel I should have more than 20
NY
Conneticut
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Florida
North Carolina
Georgia
California
Washington State
Illinois
Ohio
Oregon
Louisana
Wyoming
Colorado
DC
A bit like Irc, I've crossed the most by bicycle.
Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California.
Road trips, New York, Iowa, Ohio, Nevada and Arizona.
MTB-Idle - Member
So What?
🙂 I'd have quoted more if I didn't fear a ban
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Maryland
Washington DC
Florida
Texas
New Mexico
Louisiana
Montana
Wyoming
Washington
California
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
If you count just airports, I could also add North Dakota, Illinois, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Mostly holidays, some work. Planning to see the eclipse in 2017
All 50,but then I live here 🙂
(Have actually lived in 10 different states)
Went to university in north Carolina for a while.
Uncle lives in Oregon.
Other than that
California
Nevada
Washington (I think)
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
DC
Florida
Louisiana
Tennessee (I think)
Virginia
Georgia
Basically the edges.
I don't believe in states just the Rockies.
How many States have you been to?
Nil.
What to see over there that I haven't seen on telly?
Up and down both coasts and a few trips cross country.
Bus and train passes used to be ridiculously cheap.
🙂
What to see over there that I haven't seen on telly?
It's a good point.
Unless you get out there and have good poke around the empty bits, you feel like an extra in your own TV show.
But that's our fault for denigrating our own culture and fetishising and endlessly promoting theirs.
I like the people as individuals, on the whole.
I like some of the country.
I don't like the culture.
For a supposedly 'free' country, I was surprised how restrictive everything is.
Up and down both coasts and a few trips cross country.
Bus and train passes used to be ridiculously cheap.
Still pretty cheap for fares booked in advance. This year - Amtrak San Francisco - Chicago, 52hr train journey around $130
Greyhound, DC - New York 4 hr bus ride $11.
Georgia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Maryland
DC
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Florida
Nevada
California
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
None.....
But ask me in a few weeks!