When, in my youth, I traveled through North America, Europe and Asia, no visa was needed to cross .

[ConsAreLiars]

any border. The USSR and the USA required pre-approved permit for entry, and maybe many more, but I got a passport, traveled first to Europe (I think landed in Paris, electric trained to Frankfurt to pick up a pre-purchased BMW 1600. then toured the main destinations. Vienna, Rome, Luxembourg, Paris, Dordogne Valley and the cave paintings, Barcelona and all that and more. Much more. Just going by impulse anywhere we chose.

We're moving toward a system in which we are all Palestinians, where every crossing of any line requires proper papers and permits provided by the state.

Later I traveled even further afield, all through Scandinavia (wonderful), hitched quickly across Western Europe into Eastern. Tito's Yugoslavia, Ceausescu's Romania, Bulgaria. Hitched and traveled wherever I wanted. Great experiences everywhere.

Never asked for any documentation except when at borders they asked to stamp my passport as going in and going out. Delayed a bit when exiting Romania since their entry stamp said I came in a car and then I was on foot. Maybe 30-60 minutes to wave me on. On to Fascist Greece, the Islands, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Nepal and back in to many.

Never a hassle, no matter how the powers that were then related to or regarded one another.

Never asked for my papers once within any country, even though A glance my way would reveal me as a foreigner. Even by the most repressive and authoritarian regimes on the planet at that time, whether of the US-Fascist variant and the USSR-Stalinist ones.

The times. they have been changing. And today is just one more day after the day before.

[Tunkamerica]

1. I didn't need a visa to travel through eastern and western europe

5 years ago.

Where do you need a visa now?

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Not about Europe, in case you missed it,

About the US today. You had the same experience as me in Europe. Then and recently. Think about Arizona;s haters and those like them with a badge everywhere,

[Tunkamerica]

3. I did, I definitely missed the point.