Where was your first international trip to?

[Ava]

I'm asking because I'm taking my first one (other than to the Bahamas.. which doesn't really count, lol) in a few days. Where was your first international trip to?

[SPKrazy]

1. Germany

I was in my early 20's, Holland, Germany, and barely France.

Went with a friend, we stayed with a family for a week, and then we rented a car and took off :rofl:

It was a lot of fun

where are you going?
on edit I see you are going to Italy

too cool

have a blast


:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

30. Germany was mine, then later Spain. I lived in Germany for 6 montsh

when I was in 6th grade, with my uncle and aunt, who were stationed there w/Army. It was a blast.

[underpants]

42. Mine courtesy of the US Army

they should have never let me come home on leave

[mwooldri]

51. Germany too for me.

Got on a bus from London to Munich (via France and Belgium), met up with a a couple of wonderful ladies (mother and daughter) who we had built up a friendship with in a MUD game. I think it was only a weekend (it wasn't that long) but that was my first trip overseas.

Also the bus drivers on the way to Munich were crazy. They put on a video on the way from London to Dover - the movie "Speed" - about a bus that if it went under a certain speed limit would blow up. Just like putting the movie "Airplane" on an air-flight I suppose.

Mark.

[fizzgig]

2. england

i then went to amsterdam, brussels and scotland...it was a great trip

hope you have a wonderful time :hi:

[qwertyMike]

4. Spain

My cousin married a Basque

Been there 19 times

[Ava]

26. Spain is the number one place i'd love to visit

other than Italy, where i'm going. ;)

so just how amazing was it?

[billyskank]

8. I can't believe you were in my country

and yet it was before I knew you. x(

:hug:

[qwertyMike]

18. Ahh Spain

Granada, San Sebastion, Madrid, Granada and so on.

And BULLFIGHTING

[yellowdogintexas]

29. I adore Spain, spent 3 weeks there. loved loved loved it. Want to go back

go if you ever get a chance

[qwertyMike]

55. And I love bullfighting

Despite Hemmingway who I dislike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNZqATYesw&feature=related

El Corboes was from the 60's, not classical like El Manolito - but brave

[fizzgig]

57. i will be back someday

promise

:hug:

[AlCzervik]

3. England.

have a wonderful time on your trip, my sister went to Italy this summer and loved it.

[Solon]

5. Cancun, Mexico...

It was a blast, can't get into any more detail without getting the thread locked. ;)

[billyskank]

6. Does France count?

If so, then France.

If not, then India.

:hi:

[Mutley]

23. If Canada counts for me

then France counts for you. :D

[MonkeyFunk]

7. I went to France and Italy at 16

you're going to have a great time!

[rug]

9. Queens

[ohiosmith]

10. Vancouver BC.

[terrya]

11. Does Canada count?

That's the only other country I've been to.

[sakabatou]

12. Israel (stop-over in Britain)

[undeterred]

13. Central African Empire.

Hey, if you're gonna travel, go somewhere.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. We went to Canada frequently when I was growing up

because my father's hometown is so close to the Canadian border that Winnipeg is more convenient for local residents than the Twin Cities are.

When I was 13, my grandmother (for reasons I'll never know) decided that we should all go on a cruise to the Bahamas.

When I was 17, my grandmother decided that we should all go visit our relatives in Europe. We spent most of our time in Norway and Germany, but my father insisted that it would be a shame to go to Europe and not see London and Paris, because who knew if we'd ever get back?

As it happened, my father went back to Europe for a church-related event three years later. Twenty-five years later, after my father was dead and my mother had remarried, she and my stepfather made two trips to Europe. I finally made it back there in 2006 and 2007. My brothers, who were 12 and 14 at the time, still haven't been back to Europe.

[rndmprsn]

15. S. Korea as a child...Holland as an adult

you will love italy if you are an art/culture and history lover, let me warn you though...they guys there are very forward.

have fun

[seemunkee]

16. Walking across the border into Tijuana for the night

I was 13 and with my grandparents.

[ThomCat]

17. Fort Erie, Canada.

Not exactly a big trip for someone living in upstate NY. :P

[Breeze54]

19. Mexico

It was just a day trip.

[redqueen]

20. Haven't had one yet...

I hope it's to the UK or Ireland, though.

[lost-in-nj]

52. Call me

I'm free
we will go together and they will NEVER be the same!!!

:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

lost

[redqueen]

71. Hahaha...

That sounds fantastic. :)

[China_cat]

21. Holland, to visit my husband's family.

[Mutley]

22. Mexico.

In some tiny town on the other side of the border from El Paso, TX. I was born in El Paso.

The first international trip I actually remember is to Toronto, Canada when I was twelve years-old.

[GOPisEvil]

24. The United States.

I was born overseas. :7

[Arugula Latte]

89. Damn ferriner!

:D

[no name no slogan]

25. Iowa

what a strange, weird place

[Critters2]

43. Compared to where? nt

[Connonym]

64. as My Critters says, "I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space"

but she totally stole that from Captain Kirk

ETA: although on looking again at her sig line she does credit him so props for that :)

[cordelia]

27. London, followed by

Geneva, south of Spain (Malaga, Algeciras), Tangier, Casablanca, then Amsterdam. All in the same trip.

[KG]

28. Wyoming

[DarkTirade]

31. Other than the bahamas, I have yet to leave the country. :(

I'd love to get a chance to go to europe though.

[evlbstrd]

32. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

[Bucky]

35. Didja talk?

You wouldn't have to waterboard me. I'd squeal on the lot of ya in a second.

[evlbstrd]

38. Constantly.

Ya dirty snitch.
But we weren't in the waterboarding business then.

[Bucky]

33. Mexico. Rode a burro up the mountain outside Monterrey

My sister told me that a scoop of butter was actually ice cream. I fell for it. I ate a big spoon full of ice cream. I have planned my revenge for the last 40 years. Some day I will get her. Some day....

[lost-in-nj]

34. Well unless you call my

unfortunate descent into Tijuana a long, long time ago

It was Grand Bahama island...

Our Lucaya

where are you going????


lost

[Xipe Totec]

36. USA

Texas actually.

I didn't visit the USA until much later.

[sniffa]

37. my only one: Montreal

very fun weekend.

i also was born and raised in The Peoples Republic Of Cambridge if that counts.

:hi:

[Inchworm]

39. Bimini, Bahamas

Well, and Boblo Island in Canada.

:hi:

[femmocrat]

53. Bimini was mine, too!

1963. Took a cruise from Miami and was too seasick and sunburned to remember anything else about it!

[TCJ70]

40. Australia

Particularly, Queensland.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

41. Ireland.

Went to visit the in-laws at Christmas 1981/82. I hated it. My MIL's house was as cold as a tomb. There was only one fireplace in the house in the sitting room, no other heat source in any of the other rooms including the bathroom.

Taking a bath was an adventure and drying clothes was unbelievable. I remember putting my jeans on and having the seams still be wet.

Needless to say now the house has central heat and a dryer since Mr. Wonderful and myself now own it.

[cloudbase]

44. Japan.

My first shipboard assignment as a Merchant Marine Academy midshipman was on a ship making a Far East run. We hit Yokohama, Kobe, Pusan (twice!!!), Inchon, Keelung, Kaohsiung, and Hong Kong. Stopped in Long Beach and Balboa, Panama on the way back before getting off in NY.

[KitchenWitch]

45. Oh Canada

Only been to the US and Canada.

[flvegan]

46. Freedom. Er, I mean France.

Nice, Grenoble, Paris...

[Darth_Kitten]

47. London!

:)

[Pacifist Patriot]

48. Germany - 4 years old (details)

Army brat

I've been to three continents, seventeen countries and twenty-eight US states & DC. Still feels woefully inadequate. I'm reaching for all continents (heck my MIL and FIL have been to Antarctica) and all 50 states.

North America
Europe
Africa

United States
Canada
Mexico
Bahamas
Grand Cayman
Jamaica
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Luxumbourg
Vatican City
Spain
Italy
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Morocco

Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Tennessee
N Carolina
S Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Utah
Illinois
District of Columbia

[pitohui]

49. canada

and by the way the bahamas counts, how does it not count? their feelings would be pretty hurt if they knew you thought they were a subsidiary of the usa which they are not remotely :-)

[LiberalEsto]

50. Montreal, Canada nt

[Pied Piper]

54. 1st trip

Paris (5 days); high speed train through Brussels to Amsterdam (5 days).

2nd trip:
London, for a wedding (5 days); Chunnel to Paris (5 days); Orient Express through Vienna to Budapest (5 days).

3rd trip:
Paris (8 days).

I think next time I will spend about 2 weeks in Italy.

I love to travel!

Pied Piper

[TheMightyFavog]

56. The Agawa Canyon Railroad in Canada when I was round about 12 or so

We were only in Canada for a day, then we went back to Michigan, we eventually went back to Wisconsin on the Carferry.

My first multi-day international trip was this past summer when I interned with the AP in London for two months. What a wonderful experience. I wish there was some way I could work there on a permanent basis.

God, that city was a fun a hell to get drunk in. Everyone who visits London should ride the Tube drunk off of their ass at least once.

[tjwmason]

65. Drunken tube riding

Now that really is an amusing sport, trying to stand makes it all the more fun. :D

[RFKHumphreyObama]

58. Technically my first international trip

Was from the destination I was born in SE Asia to the country where we lived in SE Asia since I wasn't born in my country of residence. I was probably about a month old then. Actually I think we also went to Australia in the year of my birth but I have no memory of that.

The first international trip that I have vague memories of is our second trip to Australia to see my grandparents when I was 3 in 1984. We also went to Thailand sometime around then and I have memories of that as well

[txwhitedove]

59. Mexico City, on a Spanish Class trip my Senior year....

Lots of fun. Via bus to Laredo, a wild taxi ride to Nuevo Laredo, then a train all the way to Mexico City.

Have a great time and take lots of pictures for us!
:hi:

[Flaxbee]

60. Mexico first, then England (twice),

Italy (twice), Egypt, Turkey, Russia (3 times), Finland (twice) and Canada (Quebec)

Where're you going, Ava?

[Initech]

61. I havent set foot outside the continental U.S..

Although I really want to, I just cant afford it!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

62. Piedras Negras (Black Rocks), Mexico.

1965. Just across the border from Eagle Pass, TX and only 140 miles south of San Antonio. That was where the elderly relatives lived.

My elderly great aunt and great uncle, Scotsmen and Scotswomen, and their grown almost elderly children, had to hold up their proud ethnic heritage of alcohol abuse and go to Piedras Negras for a tequila run. Each adult could bring back a fifth of tequila duty free, and that's where I first heard the words "Jose Cuervo".

I went in the liquor store and smelled it and didn't want to have anything to do with it. I was a little kid. I still don't like the stuff.

But it was fun buying silver jewelry and beautiful little agate boxes and things, and straw purses. And painted boxes and piggy banks.

[ellisonz]

63. Greece.

Package tour through Greece and Italy, then onto Paris by overnight train and London via the Chunnel.

[tjwmason]

66. Spain

I was aged about 5 or 6 I think, I fear that I can't remember much - but I'd love to go back to Barcelona just to ponder the Gaudi architecture.

[Crabby Appleton]

67. Vietnam

In the Army

[AllegroRondo]

74. Welcome home, soldier!

What unit did you serve with?

[recoveringdittohed]

68. Alaska

In 1979 bought a 1 month bus pass and traveled around the Western U.S. and to Alaska (going through Canada).

[SCDem]

69. Japan

Flew into Tokyo - then travelled to a smaller village where I stayed for two weeks - My earliest student exchange program at 7th grade.

[dropkickpa]

70. Ca-nay-dee-ahhh!!!

Toronto and Stratford, to be exact.

[stuntcat]

72. Switzerland, on my honeymoon

Then we went to Germany for a rave at an airport (we were young okay) and then to Paris :headbang: It was 13 years ago.

Bahamas counts I think, especially if it's your first trip out of the states!

[AllegroRondo]

73. Germany. I was an exchange student.

It was my first time on an airplane, too. Culture shock!

[Maestro]

75. Mexico

then Spain. Haven't been abroad since the late 80s. :(

[Redstone]

76. Viet Nam, unfortunately.

Redstone

[SteppingRazor]

77. Tijuana, Mexico. n/t

[Dulcinea]

78. England, Scotland & Wales.

I was 30...guess I was a late bloomer! I loved London & Edinburgh. I'd go back anytime.

[sarge43]

79. England, courtsey of Uncle Sugar n/t

[LibertyLover]

80. Mexico

when I was 11. Of course, when I was 4 my parents and I went out west on vacation and went to Tiajuana for a few hours, but when I was 11 I lived in Guadalajara for the summer and went to school while my mom took some graduate courses at the university.

[Arugula Latte]

81. Well, I guess the Bahamas when I was four.

Then my parents took my sister and me to Europe when I was 15, landing in England.

[HamdenRice]

82. Liberia, just one year after Sargeant Doe's coup!

Very wild place at the time. Already young soldiers were demanding "dash" at checkpoints on the roads. I saw Sgt. Doe give a speech in downtown Monrovia, and he was still pretty popular for having toppled the True Whig Party oligarchy.

It's sad what happened after. We all thought Liberia was going to be peaceful and prosperous.

[charlie and algernon]

83. Toronto, Canada

Then 6 years later, i went on a real international trip to Northern Ireland and Germany

[kwassa]

84. Windsor, Ontario, just south of Detroit.

You drive cross the bridge.

Shortcut from Detroit to New England is through Canada. Did it many times as a kid.

Then, Europe.

[ceile]

85. Germany

Went for my brother's wedding when I was 13. Spent 6 weeks there-total blast!

[bikebloke]

86. Europe

Back in 1977, I landed in London. Some immigration eejit decided I was gong to try to live in work in the UK. He was such an asshole, rather than see London, I caught the ferry to Holland and rode my rail pass through Europe. A real eye opener. After that, I wanted to live there. A society that was closer to my own values.

[momophile]

87. I think the Bahamas count. mine was Canada.

but it wasn't my last international trip by any means.

[RainDog]

88. various places in europe

as part of a student thing. lived with people from the countries/cities for a bit then was a tourist. soooo, in order- Amsterdam, Bonn, Denmark, Sweden, Moscow, Kiev, Vienna, this little burg whose name I cannot recall, tho I do recall the boys there... Paris, Versailles, oh, I DO recall the boys there... London, Salisbury (Stonehenge) Nijmegen.

was the best experience of my life up to that point.

[Ramsey]

90. France

In fact, I went allover France, from Paris to Nice and other areas in the south, and Mont St. Michel. We also went to Switzerland for a few days on that trip, and drove through Spain, where we had lunch, but didn't stay.

[Fox Mulder]

91. Canada

And it's the only international trip I've ever been on. :(

[geardaddy]

92. Mexico...

when I was four.

[CreekDog]

93. Tijuana

Last time I was in Canada at Glacier Nat'l Park (Waterton Lakes) --approximately 6 miles into Canada, my credit union contacted me with an urgent warning that my credit card was being used fraudulently abroad in Canada at gift shops, a campground, and a gas station.

[NewJeffCT]

94. Aruba, then Turks & Caicos and then China

Other than running into crappy weather in T&C, I've enjoyed all my trips overseas.

[NewWaveChick1981]

95. Canada when I was six months old.

:P My first international trip that I remember was when I went to Italy and Switzerland when I was 14.

[SKKY]

96. Spain.

[AspenRose]

97. Texas

I was born in Germany.

"Texas: It's like a whole other country."

:-)