• People’s Republic of China - I was born there, not much of a choice. Was there for approximately the first 10 years of my existence. Most of the time was spent around the Guandong Province. Went to Hong Kong (under PRC control) like once, or so I’m told, very fuzzy memories… [How was it: Serious Economic and Political issues at the time I left, so… not good 0/10]

• Seoul, South Korea (ROK) - Stayed for a few hours, at the airport, waiting for the connecting flight. Never entered into the country. I saw some noodles on the menu at a restaurant at the airport, and it was like 10,000 Korea Won or more, I was a kid that didn’t underatand different currencies and exchange rates, shocked me lol. (Probably like $10 to $30 USD) Other than that, don’t remember much happening) [How was it: Don’t remember much, the airport looked nice, so… 7/10 I guess, but I didn’t technically enter the country]

• United States of America - Been here ever since like I was around 10-ish. Here via Immigration Visa, I have since acquired citizenship. Lived at NYC and Philly, traveled around the NY/PA/NJ tri-state area when going back and forth between NYC and Philly. And went to DC once for a school trip. [How was it: Used to be like 6/10, now it’s 2/10]

Does it even count if you never went through customs? Also, depending on the flight paths, I might have also flew over Japan/Russia/Canada’s Airspaces… if that also counts 🤷‍♂️

(What does a flightpath from Seoul to JFK look like, anyways?)

I wanna to go to Canada, I’ve always heard it was a nice and friendly place, even friendlier than the US. But don’t wanna face customs issues when returning since… ahem fascist administration, so I guess it’ll have to wait 4 years… or more… 👀

• Every state in the US (most in the form of being driven through back in the 70s), including Hawaii and Alaska
• Mexico over a dozen times, primarily Laredo
• Canada (for a day as part of a cruise)
• England and Scotland 4 times, including my honeymoon (about a month in total)
• Ireland (part of the aforementioned honeymoon, 4 days, including being in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day)
• This part gets a little weird… Italy, Austria, Switzerland, WEST Germany… all before the wall fell
• West Berlin then East Berlin, the latter being the first time I’d ever had a gun pointed at me (polizei)
• Hungary as part of a trip to find where my paternal grandparents had lived prior to coming to the US
• New Zealand for 2.5 weeks to see Hobbiton… as well as a wealth of natural beauty and KORORA
• US Virgin Islands (St John)

EDIT: also France for 6 hours via the Chunnel ;)

Three.

American here! I’ve been lucky to travel a bunch for work so some of the countries I’ve been to 10+ times for 1-2 weeks. Others are just for holiday.

Canada - only a few day trip to Toronto Mexico - one week but flying there tomorrow for a second week France - 10+ work trips Italy - 10+ work trips UK - weekend in London with the EuroStar from Paris Germany - a couple work trips China - one week Australia - two weeks Jamaica - two weeks Dominican Republic - one week

Holidays (overnight): 12 Norway, Scotland, England, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Paraguay

Day trip: 5 Denmark, Czechia, Argentina, Brazil, Poland

Student exchange: 1 Belgium

Work: 4 (1 unique) Luxembourg,FR AU CH

Volunteering work: 3 Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania

sum = 22; 19 in Europe , 3 in South America Loved them all.

Somewhere between 17-19, but only on the Northern hemisphere.

One thing I’ve learned is that humans are very much alike everywhere, both good and bad, but mostly in a good way. I will never understand racism or patriotism. Borders are artificial.

UK.

I’ve worked in: UK, Ireland, Spain (Marid and Barcelona), France (Paris), Italy (Milan and Rome), Germany (all over), Belgium (Brussels), Denmark (Copenhagen), US (New York and New Jersey), Canada (Toronto and Montreal)

On top of those I’ve visited: Japan (many times), US (many times), Sweden, Holland, Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, BVI, Antigua, St Martin, Barbuda

I’ve sailed in BVi, Antigua, Barbuda, Italy, Greece, and obviously the UK.

If I could, I would live in Japan, by far my favourite place

Australia Hong Kong Taiwan China England Wales France Spain Catalonia Germany United States New Zealand Thailand Singapore Kenya Papua New Guinea Indonesia

Plus a bunch of airports, of course.

Barely any. Just Poland (my country), Czechia, Slovakia and technically Austria (for few hours).

I definitely want to go to Baltics (Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia), Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary and Austria in the relatively near future, but I haven’t even explored my country that much, so it’s also on my bucket list.

The biggest problem is that I don’t really have anyone to travel with, so for most of my life I just didn’t do that, and only recently (couple of years ago) I have started to do it, but still very rarely.

Canada: 2 days, visiting a friend in Quebec.

Mexico: Longest was a whole week; but accumulated over how many times I have gone there is probably a whole year or more. Always just been for fun (the week long stay was via a cruise); mostly just Tiajuana though.

Germany: 2 weeks, for work. Never got to see anything outside Bremerhaven.

Ireland: 2 hours. Had a layover there on the way to Germany.

I live in California, and have been to every state in the US except for Alaska and Hawaii. Almost got to Hawaii. That work in Germany I mentioned? It was because I was hired as a crewman for the Pride of America, an NCL cruise ship and it was just finishing being built when I got aboard. Was supposed to be touring Hawaii, but I tripped down some stairs on the way across the Atlantic to New York and fucked myself up enough that I couldn’t continue working. Missed out on crossing the Panama canal and seeing Hawaii. 😩

• 2 decades: Netherlands
• 2 years: Belgium
• 2 months: Finland
• 2 weeks: Iceland
• 2 days: United Kingdom
• 2 hours: Switzerland
• Somewhere between 2 minutes and 2 seconds: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium all at once

• 6 years: Germany
• 6 months: France
• 6 weeks… this is getting tricky, Luxembourg is probably closest but not close enough to claim this tier
• 6 days: Poland
• 6 hours: Sweden
• 6 minutes: I give up

I didn’t realise it was a life goal of mine to spend 6 minutes in a country until this post, but now I’m not sure I can unsee this list. Maybe the Vatican is a good candidate for that? Italy can go in the 2 days slot, bumping UK up to 6 weeks another time. Germany will exceed the 6 years slot soon though, maybe I’ll need to visit all sixers to get bingo on a row of sevens instead. And where are we going for 7 seconds? Another tripoint, does that count?

I’ve been on holiday in 32 countries. Quite a lot! About 2/3 of those were European countries (I’m European).

Canada, Mexico, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia.

Been to every US state except for Alaska.

About 10, I guess.

No, I am not rich (in money). They are just near.