Have you actually ever left your home country?

[Meriweather]

yes..............many
We cruise, so have hit a lot

 

[sam_gordon]

Yes, I've been to Europe (one school trip, one soccer trip), multiple cruises, Mexico, and Canada (barely).

I like travelling and would do more if I had the money and time.

 

[Jangles]

These threads always want me to post ….. hello, 🏖 🏔 and yes, .

 

[fla4fun]

Yes, I have.

 

[mrodgers]

I have, but many Americans haven't for a plethora of reasons. They may not have a passport (I read a report that said about 40-45% of Americans have a valid passport), they cannot afford the airfare (which is CRAZY right now, especially to countries in Europe and Asia) or they just don't want to.

This. No way I could fly to Europe and spend any time there. Any travel that would require air travel is out because of the cost. People at work couldn't believe we drove to Disney. It would have been $350 per person to fly times 4.

I've only been out of the US once, in Canada when we crossed on the bicycles to ride across the northern shore of Lake Ontario. It was neat because there was a lot of construction on the Peace Bridge and they asked us if we were planning on walking on the sidewalk or riding. We don't walk, we have vehicles, so they stopped traffic and escorted us across the bridge on our own, LOL.

I have my passport card because of that trip. I wanted to do the same trip but on the motorcycle the following year over a weekend but the following year was 2020. Now I don't know all the protocols for entering Canada and reentering the US for Covid stuff.

 

[mrodgers]

It’s like 400 miles from Stonehenge to Paris. I can barely even make it across my state in 400 miles.

PA is 310 miles on I-80 from Ohio line to NJ line, 4 hours and 36 minutes drive. 367 miles according to Google Stonehenge to Paris, 6 hours 44 minutes.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Yep, a few times!

 

[Colleen27]

I live 5 minutes from Canada, so around here, you don't find a whole lot of people who haven't left the US. I'm also in one of the few states that issues an enhanced driver's license that is valid for land crossings with Canada and Mexico, so we don't even need passports to go. Drinking in Canada (legal @ 19) is a college-age tradition around here.

But I understand why many Americans never leave the US. It is a big place, the connections to other countries are expensive and time consuming especially if you're not living on one of the coasts, and most of us really don't enough vacation time to spend 1-2 full days at both ends of a trip on a long-distance flight and adjusting to a dramatically different time zone. My husband joined us in the UK for 10 days out of a longer trip I took with my girls, and I'm not sure he'll do it again until after retirement because he didn't care for the ratio of travel-to-vacation involved.

 

[prairie_girl]

Of course

 

[lovesmurfs]

Yep! Austria, England (twice), Canada (Toronto, Quebec), Scotland.

Planning a trip to Ireland for DD's college graduation gift. She's doing a 16-day Nordic trip with her college choir in May (Norway, Denmark, Finland).

 

[PattnFmly]

I have, but it was before I was married. Once we married, bought the house and had kids it was too cost & time prohibitive to go too far. Most of our travel since then has been up and down the eastern seaboard.

 

[mumto3girls]

Yes, but not as much as I would like. That’s one of my goals for retirement. I’d also like to see more of the US. I have been west of the Mississippi a couple of times, but there are many states I have never been to.

 

[Moliphino]

Yup.
The first time was when I was 9 and we took a bus from San Diego to Tijuana for a couple hours, which only barely counts. Next was a summer semester in France when I was 20.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Jamaica and St. Lucia and Puerto Rico (which while it is a territory it is its own country). When I was younger a cruise added Bahamas, St. Maarten and I forget what the other country was.

This year we'll be adding quite a lot more: Mexico, Italy, Montenegro, Croatia, and Greece the last 4 due to a cruise (if you want to add airports then France and England). Next year pretty settled on Japan and we may add another cruise in northern Europe.

My husband has been to Canada and Japan for work.

 

[firefly_ris]

Oops, I forgot to add Canada. I live close to the border so I guess it doesn't really feel like international travel.

 

[Mysterian]

Yep, a few times!

Same.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Twice. Once I went to Canada, to Toronto, but it was a Dr. Who fandom thing and I rarely left the hotel. I wish I had-it looked like a lovely city. I've also been to the UK-I spent 4 days in London, and I crammed a *lot* into those four days. I adored it, the city and the people and all the history all around me. I would love to go back.

 

[soccerdad72]

Sure, many times, both for work and for vacations. We have a number of other countries on our list that we'd like to visit one day as well.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I’ve only been to five foreign countries, but have travelled extensively within the United States.

 

[mrs. magoo]

We live an hour from the Canadian border so we have been to Canada numerous times. As a family we also have been to the Bahamas and Mexico. I have been to England and Spain. My husband has never been to Europe and of my kids my oldest daughter is the only one to study abroad. I hope to get the family to Europe soon.