Where have you traveled?

[NileQT87]

well, we are quite an international community, so, where have all the buffy forum members been and lived?

make your own travel map: http://www.travbuddy.com/world-travel-map

(and don't be afraid to make your list or put-off by mine! in my defense, my parents were in the airlines and i'm a bit of a travel whore. i'd love to know where other people have been!)

also... if people do post here, we can make a forum-wide map of everyone's travels all together and see if we can fill up the majority of the map. with only me, thus far, we're already at 8% of the world's countries.

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mine: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3070574

Countries (17):

Argentina (Buenos Aires, el Tigre)
Austria (Salzburg, Vienna, Innsbruck, Schwaz)
Belgium (Brussels)
Egypt (Cairo, Giza, Thebes--Valley of the Kings/Valley of the Queens/Valley of the Nobles/Deir el-Bahri/Luxor/Karnak/etc..., Abydos, Kom Ombo, Philae, Esna, Edfu, Aswan, Abu Simbel)
England (Gatwick, London, Salisbury, Bath, Folkestone--Eurostar)
France (Coquelles--Eurostar, Paris, Versailles)
Germany (Munich, Berchtesgaden--Eagle's Nest, Oberammergau--Linderhof, Herreninsel--Herrenchiemsee, Füssen--Hohenschwangau/Neuschwanstein, Hornberg, Heidelberg, Dachau)
Greece (Metéora, Delphi, Athens, Mykonos, Rhodes, Patmos)
Italy (Lido di Jesolo, Venice, Florence, Assisi, Sorrento, Rome, Pisa, Naples, Pompeii, Capri, Piraeus)
Liechtenstein (Vaduz)
Mexico (Tijuana, Ensenada--lived there for 10 months, Mexicali, Puerto Vallarta)
Netherlands (?, Amsterdam, Volendam)
Switzerland (Lucerne)
Turkey (Kuşadası, Ephesus)
United States Of America (see U.S. states)
Uruguay (Colonia del Sacramento)
Vatican City

U.S. states (22):

Arizona (Tombstone, Bisbee, Tucson, Phoenix, Show Low)
California (San Diego--live here, San Juan Capistrano, Hemet, Temecula, Big Bear Lake, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Santa Catalina Island, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Ojai, Solvang, San Luis Obispo, San Simeon, Monterey, Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Davis)
Delaware (drove through between D.C. and N.Y.C.)
Florida (Orlando, Tallahassee)
Georgia (Thomasville, Atlanta)
Hawaii (?)
Kansas (Kansas City)
Kentucky (Cincinnati)
Maryland (Baltimore)
Massachusetts (Boston, Sandwich, Lexington, Concord, Salem, Plymouth, Cape Cod)
Missouri (Kansas City, Platte City)
Montana (Polson)
Nevada (Las Vegas)
New Jersey (drove through between D.C. and N.Y.C.)
New York (New York City)
North Carolina (Charlotte)
Pennsylvania (Allentown, Lancaster County, Gettysburg, Pittsburgh)
Rhode Island (Providence)
Tennessee (Memphis)
Texas (Houston, Dallas)
Virginia (Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Arlington, Alexandria)
Washington (Seattle, Anacortes, Blakely Island)
Washington D.C.

[skinless]

Well, U got me beat But here's my list:

Mexico
Canada- Toronto, London, Niagara Falls
United states

U.S. States: (14)
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New york
Virginia
West virgina
North carolina
South carolina
Florida
Maryland

[NileQT87]

yay! and a lot of places i haven't been! where in canada, might i ask?

as i said, i'm thinking that we could make a forum-wide map...

here we are so far--9% of the countries: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3072423

we're at 18 countries and 26 states forum-wide.

[skinless]

where in canada, might i ask?
Canada- Toronto, London, Niagara Falls. I wonder if any one can actually Say that they been to antartaca or if anyone here has been to all seven continents

[NileQT87]

lol. yeah. antarctica might be the one continent i won't make it to. it's just penguins, killer whales... and icy coldness. if i want to see penguins and shamu, i can go to sea world in my own hometown of sunny san diego.

and the ontario update: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3072655

well, i've actually been to 5 of 7 continents already (4 if you consider kusadaşi, turkey to be in europe--13% of turkey is in europe). looks like i might need to head to oz sometime.

[skinless]

if i want to see penguins and shamu, i can go to sea world in my own hometown of sunny san diego. Speaking of that I went to the Georgia Aquaruim (The Largest in the World Apparently) and Saw Penguins. I love Penguins and Beluga whales and Other Seas animals but Especially Penguins

[litzie]

here's my map: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3072678
(http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3072678)
My list:

USA:
Pennsylvania (lived)
New Jersey (lived)
New York (lived)
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia (lived)
Georgia (lived)
Florida
Illinois (lived)
Indiana (lived)
Iowa
Missouri (whoops, realized I forgot this on my map!)
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Arizona
Nevada
California

Other Countries I've lived
Ireland
UK

Other Countries I've visited:
Ireland
UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
France
Spain
Belgium
Switzerland
Greece
Italy
Mexico

[NileQT87]

the funniest thing i ever saw in austria (besides mozartkugeln--"mozart balls") was a t-shirt saying that there are no kangaroos in austria. lmao. apparently some dimwitted tourists have mistaken austria for australia (yikes).

most sea life just creeps me out. i'm completely terrified of crocodiles, alligators, sharks, narwhals, etc... the sobek temple in egypt (kom ombo) had a room full of mummified crocodiles... let's just say i was scared crapless and couldn't actually go in that room. i also used to be terrified of animatronic dinosaurs--i hid my face at the national history museum in london.

well... so far, my awards to best (and favorite) graveyards go to: valley of the kings (thebes, egypt), el cementerio de la recoleta (buenos aires, argentina), petersfriedhof (salzburg, austria), the imperial crypt (vienna, austria), etc...

and yes. i've been to a lot of graveyards. i'm kind of known for liking them (surprise, surprise).

and an update due to litzie!: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3072735

wow. nice that you've lived in those places. i've only lived in san diego (same house) and ensenada.

[Veverka]

I couldn't resist!!!
http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3072829
There's still so much to go!!!

[NileQT87]

whoa! veverka is at 10%! i'm truly impressed.

eastern europe is definitely next on my list. the czech republic (prague looks just gorgeous) and russia especially (ditto with st. petersburg and moscow).

the forum is now at 15%. http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3073002

[Nina]

I'm jealous of you all ... I love seeing other cultures and lands. But my list isn't very impressive at all.

I live in the Netherlands ... so yeah ... saw that country.

Belgium (no big cities, we went to the beach)
Germany (Berlin, the Eifel (2x), Münster, Bad Bentheim)
Scotland (Edinburgh, Inverness -Beauly-, Glasgow)
Ireland (Connemara -Galway, Clifden-)
Italy (Rome)
Spain (Barcelona)
France (Paris)

This year or next year ... we are probably going to Prague and Vienna.

[lee]

ive been to:

France, Paris and south of france
Belgium,
netherlands, Amsterdam
Germany, berlin
USA florida
Stay in Galway
(im from Glasgow, Scotland)

[skinless]

I'm jealous of you all ... I love seeing other cultures and lands. But my list isn't very impressive at all. Compared to me, Everyone has gone to places that I would love to go too. i havent been out of North america. So Im Kinda jealous of all of you

[slaycandy]

Okay, this is a quick list I put together, as my memory is a tad fuzzy, but hey. I have been to a lot of these places several times so am not listing all the cities I stayed in, it would take forever! But hey, :D I am working on events so much now my travelling plans are pretty much resitricted to the UK now, :( But hey, I try to squeeze in some trips abroad throughout the year still, heh.

Tunisia
Iceland (Rekjavik)
England
Ireland
France
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Austria
Czech Republic
Cyprus
Crete
Spain
Portugal
Ibiza
Mallorca
Menorca
Canary Islands:
Tennerife
Gran Canaria
Lanzarote
Fuertenventura

Canada - Toronto
US - New York
US - Florida
US - Maine
US - Mineapolis (Minnesota?)

SJ
xox

[Magnetic Duty]

A crappy 3% :(

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3075027

Canada:
British Columbia (live)
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba

United States:
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Nevada
Californa

Other Countries:
Mexico
Japan
China

[holypotatoes]

Minnesota


US - Mineapolis (Minnesota?)


WOOT! Minnesota in the hizzows! :celebration:

Yeah I've been nowhere kids. It's sad actually. I've spent all my time here in MN. :( Unless you count Wisconsin and South Dakota and I think Canada when I was a kid.

[NileQT87]

woohoo! we're moving on up in our map completion.

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3075410

a whopping 18% now!

[Veverka]

I'm going to Vietnam next Saturday :2party: ... so soon that can be added!!!

[NileQT87]

awesome! have a great trip!

update: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3075709

[holypotatoes]

Oh Nile you can fill in North Dakota too. I forgot to say that in my previous post. Gotta love Fargo. :(

[NileQT87]

well, i'll just put that map through the wood chipper (lol) and spit out a new one, including dear old fargo.

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3075942

¡que buenísimo! el mapa es mucho más completo ahora. (how very good! the map is much more complete now.)

[holypotatoes]

well, i'll just put that map through the wood chipper (lol) and spit out a new one.

:lol: Do you know how many people don't understand what you just said. It's a shame so many people haven't seen Fargo. I recommend it to all. :D

[sherrilina]

Okay, here's mine:

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3076393

So I guess I've been to 11% of countries in the world according to this, though I hope to add to the list next year....

Here's the list of countries:

USA (duh)
Canada
UK (Scotland, Wales, England)
Ireland (Dublin)
Italy
Germany
Austria
Czeck Republic (Prague)
Hungary (Budapest)
Spain
Portugal
Morrocco (Tangiers)
Gibraltar
France
Monaco
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Finland (Helsinki)

Mostly Europe....

Interesting thread Nile!

[NileQT87]

we're up to a glorious 22% of the world--very few u.s. states and european countries left!

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3076718

we have a lot of big travelers here!

(and just f.y.i.--that "nile" in my screenname is travel-related. ;) )

[Pandora's_Box]

I've been to Monaco, so you can add it to the list, I also went to "La Réunion", it's a small french island on the Indian Ocean but I don't see it on the map.

[NileQT87]

yeah, a lot of the islands aren't included on that map.

and yup. monaco is on there!

we've got a lot of travelers (even if it's just around the states or somewhere next door) and international people here. i love it.

[basakbangel]

Well, I havent seen so much.

mine: http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3079043

I have been to:
Ireland and Northern Ireland(Dublin, Belfast)
Hungary(Budapest)
Austria(Vienna)
Czech Republic(Prague, Karlovivari)
Portugal(Lisbon, Porto)
Spain(Granada, Sevilla, Cordoba)
The Netherlands(Amsterdam, Rotterdam)
Turkey-(Istanbul-where I live, Ankara, Antalya, Alanya, Kuşadası, Capadoica-Nevşehir, Bodrum, Kemer, Izmit, Sakarya-Sapanca, Kartalkaya-Bolu, Büyük Ada.)

[NileQT87]

i've only been to kuşadası and ephesus in your country (turkey), but i absolutely loved it! as i said when i was there... ephesus was the most impressive ruins i had ever been to outside of egypt.

[Wolfie Gilmore]

I've been to 10%

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3087620

[NileQT87]

india is added!

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3087703

my half-brother is a sai baba follower... he and his family goes to india a lot. one time he brought me back a salwar kameez (maroon decorative tunic with balloon pants and a scarf).

[The_Narrator]

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3088656

5% :(

I am yet to leave Europe. Even when I went to Turkey, I stayed in Istanbul, and in Russia, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which are classified as being in Europe. But it's my dream to go on the Machu Picchu Trail, so staying confined to Europe may change, hopefully within the next few years.

[missperoxide]

Just 6%. Gotta get out of Europe soon...
My travel map (http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3088801)

[Cori]

Here is mine, I got 10%:

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3089036

[NileQT87]

check us out... rocking the map at a whopping 25%!!!

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3089897

and many people here are kicking my butt with the traveling. i need to get back onto the globe-trotting. so many places i want to go.

[Pandora's_Box]

I have a question NileQT, what country's been visited the most so far?

[lara]

Oh god, I'm so jelous of you all! You've been to so many places I would love to go. Compared to you, my list it's a shame. I've only been to Brazil and Argentina.

[NileQT87]

hey, brazil is one we didn't have before. every person can add to the map. which one are you from, btw... argentina or brazil?

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3093129

uh... the majority of people... have probably been to the united states. also a lot of mexico, england, france and germany.

i'm feeling quite unique still with uruguay, egypt, vatican city and liechtenstein.

[lara]

Originally posted by NileQT87
hey, brazil is one we didn't have before.

So, no-one has been to Brazil? Yey me!! I've noted that most of you guys are from some part of europe or from the united states, is anyone around that, like me, is from South America?

Originally posted by NileQT87
which one are you from, btw... argentina or brazil?

Actually I live in a small country: Paraguay (we got mentioned once in the show, you know, in Ep. "As you were"), it is located in between Argentina and Brazil, and that's why I've had the chance to visit both places. I visited Argentina when I was a child, so I don't remember that much, but Brazil I've visited three or four times, went to the beach.

If you like to travel a lot and you like warm weather and the beach, you should definitely go to Brazil. It's beautiful.

[sherrilina]

hey, brazil is one we didn't have before. every person can add to the map. which one are you from, btw... argentina or brazil?

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3093129

uh... the majority of people... have probably been to the united states. also a lot of mexico, england, france and germany.

i'm feeling quite unique still with uruguay, egypt, vatican city and liechtenstein.
Don't most people who go to Rome stop at the Vatican? :s Or maybe just most Catholics....

So, no-one has been to Brazil? Yey me!! I've noted that most of you guys are from some part of europe or from the united states, is anyone around that, like me, is from South America?

Yeah, I think most people here are from the US or from Europe....but that's cool that you're from Paraguay! :) I should really travel to Latin America sometime, practice my Spanish!

[NileQT87]

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3094698

hey, paraguay counts! now south america isn't looking so blank anymore. my half-sister's husband is from buenos aires. his parents still live down there. they are very nice. unfortunately, they speak about as much english as i speak spanish (un poquito--i took a few years in school, but it's mostly gone, baby, gone). lots of awkward silence and weird pointing (¿eso? ¿esta cosa?--okay, i do know way more than that).

though, i think i've become quite humored with argentinian spanish (the "ll"s and "y"s are pronounced like "j"s instead of the english "y" sound). and of course, lots of barbecue, bife de lomo, empanadas and italian food (buenos aires had a ton of italian immigrants--also where the german nazis went after wwII under the juan perón administration). sarmiento's legacy is also all over the place (including the building of la casa rosada). general belgrano is also one of the major argentinian historical figures. and of course, mate (a bitter tea-like drink) and the tango.

and i'm quite enamored of el cementerio de la recoleta--most beautiful necropolis i've ever seen. maría eva duarte de perón (evita) is in her family's mausoleum in la recoleta--it's a very unassuming and non-fancy one that you'd never notice if all the tourists didn't lead you to it--plus with all the flowers. some of the mausoleums are just humongous and crazily ornate with lots of statuary, pillars, gothic spires, etc... it's a whole city of them.

they actually found eva perón's embalmed body buried in another woman's tomb in milan, italy. the embalmer had taken one of her fingers and soldiers had danced with her body (breaking the toes) and chiseled her nose--she was repaired and reinterred in the duarte family tomb in the '70s.

interesting article about the embalmings, overthrows and reburials: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEFDB123FF933A05754C0A9639582 60&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

el cementerio de la recoleta: http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/319/evitaob6.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a112/SethBrooks/IMG_3335.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7281/8recoleta2qz8.jpg
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1999/cementaryrecoletaji2.jpg
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/2883/cementeriodelarecoleta0li1.jpg

well, i'm not catholic... just an unashamed tourist... but most of rome appears to have been lifted and put into the vatican. lmao. of course, there was the pope that famously went around knocking the phalli off of the roman statues (which all now have little fig leaves over their broken bits) and had clothes painted on michelangelo's nudes in the sistine chapel. "the last judgment" has a fun little aside--michelangelo hated the overseer and painted him a low corner of hell getting his parts bitten off by a serpent. in the same mural--st. bartholomew's flayed skin is a self-portrait of michelangelo, himself. and... and where else do you get to see 2 embalmed popes and an 80 foot bronze pavilion (st. peter's basilica)?

check out the bottom right corner of michelangelo's "last judgment" mural: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Lastjudgement.jpg

even if you're not catholic, you HAVE to go to the vatican when you're in rome.

st. peter's basilica:http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5933/793pxinteriorvaticano8xa6.jpg

[sherrilina]

well, i'm not catholic... just an unashamed tourist... but most of rome appears to have been lifted and put into the vatican. lmao. of course, there was the pope that famously went around knocking the phalli off of the roman statues (which all now have little fig leaves over their broken bits) and had clothes painted on michelangelo's nudes in the sistine chapel. "the last judgment" has a fun little aside--michelangelo hated the overseer and painted him a low corner of hell getting his parts bitten off by a serpent. in the same mural--st. bartholomew's flayed skin is a self-portrait of michelangelo, himself. and... and where else do you get to see 2 embalmed popes and an 80 foot bronze pavilion (st. peter's basilica)?

check out the bottom right corner of michelangelo's "last judgment" mural: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Lastjudgement.jpg

even if you're not catholic, you HAVE to go to the vatican when you're in rome.

st. peter's basilica:http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5933/793pxinteriorvaticano8xa6.jpg
Well yeah, I figured most tourists period would want to go to see the Sistene Chapel and stuff, but I qualified it just in case...;)

And wow, that cemetary looks like a city! :lol: Thanks for the pics!

[basakbangel]

i've only been to kuşadası and ephesus in your country (turkey), but i absolutely loved it! as i said when i was there... ephesus was the most impressive ruins i had ever been to outside of egypt.

Thanks:), It's nice to hear that from you. There are tons of ruins but the ones that are protected are just some of them. Because of the unconsciousness for historical places, a lot of them are destroyed and that's really sad to know. anyway, I still didnt get a chance to see ephesus but I'm looking forward to. Kuşadası, I have been there like 5 years ago.

[kudagirl]

I wish I could travel more because I love seeing new places and other ways of living.

Born and raised in Texas. Never left till I was twentyfive. Took my first plane trip when I moved to Germany.

Stateside I have been to:
Texas
Oklahoma
Arizona
Georgia
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Nevada
New York

Other countries I have visited:
Germany
Austria
Czech Rep
New Foundland
Mexico

I lived in Nurnberg and Wurzburg, Germany. I lived in Germany before the Berlin Wall came down. I visited Hof, Germany and saw the fences between the two countries. Munich was a favorite city.

[NileQT87]

newfoundland and oklahoma are added to the map! woot!

and awesome that you were in west germany before the berlin wall came down. munich is also one of my favorite cities.

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3098648

[skinless]

Even though we have 26% of the map. None of it for the most part is in africa. That like the least visited continent among the BF user I think.

[NileQT87]

tonight, i'm going to las vegas, nevada. then, i'm arriving in seattle, washington at 2:00 a.m. tomorrow, my dad and i are going to anacortes and blakely island (san juan islands).

my 22nd state!

[basakbangel]

^I can't believe you Amber(should I call you that way?) I can't believe how you have this time, strengh to travel this much. Whoa.

[Salvation]

Nice topic where have i traveled wow many places, so here we go:

Dubai(it's where i live)
Saudi Arabia(my father's native country)
Lebanon
Jordan
Iran
Malayasia
India
Turkey(Istanbul-Ankara-Antalya & some island which i dont recall the name)
Egypt
Tunisia
Cyprus & Greece (which i only remembered from the pix bcuz i was a kid)

[NileQT87]

hello, 29% of the world! buffy forums is racking up the frequent flyer/driver miles.

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3261276

[vampmogs]

I didn't do that great;

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_confirm.php?id=3261599

I've been to

England- London, Newcastle, Bath, Bristol, York
Australia- Every State
France- Paris
Scotland- Edinuburgh
Wales- Cardif
Indonesia- Bali
Malaysia- Singapore
America- Florida
China- Hong Kong
Denmark

[NileQT87]

hey, don't sell yourself short! all of australia, singapore, hong kong, malaysia and indonesia were all places we didn't have.

http://www.travbuddy.com/widget_map_display.php?id=3261807