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[sweetnsexy]

Following on from the comments in '...Never...'.....I have noticed that many US based members have never left their own shores? Just curious....most europeans have visited other countries - in the last five years I have been to Belgium, Italy (twice) Spain (5 times), Switzerland (every year), France (4 x a year), Canary Islands, USA (twice).

It is clear that many US members have never ventured outside your borders - this may be because you are young and broke, or because you can find your vacation needs within your own borders. Obviously the US is a big country with extremes of weather etc....but where do you go on holiday, and why? And what stops you leaving the US?

[Vlad]

I generally stay at the 5 lakes near Meadow Lake. Great fishing, great camping zones. and if 1 lake is too crowded, there are 4 more to choose from withing a few KMs of eachother.

Though I have been to Romania now and then.

[Gnappster]

I generally stay at the 5 lakes near Meadow Lake. Great fishing, great camping zones. and if 1 lake is too crowded, there are 4 more to choose from withing a few KMs of eachother.

As in Medaw Lake Saskatchewan?!?! I never thought in a million years Sask. would make the list of travel destinations, although if you like fishing, we have some of the best in the world. And you won't die from mercury poisoning eating them lol.

Anyway back to holidays. In Canada you get 15 work days off a year. So inclding weekends it equals 3 weeks. Not nearly enough. I've read in many European countries and now I see Australia as well, you get way more time off. It's just not in the mindset over here. It's like, if you take a lot of holidays you are lazy and would be better off working. I think if people had more time off though, they would work harder when they were at work. But whatever.

I think the reason a lot of N. Americans don't travel to other countries as much as say Europeans is because the countries are so big and diverse. I have a friend living in Poland and he travels to Czech Repuplic, Germany, Slovakia all the time. Well it's easy when you can just hop on a train and do it. Here it is a little more involved. In Canada, some of our provinces are as big as some countries. So just by staying within the boarders of my own country I have a lot of cool places to visit and it would take weeks just to travel from one side of Canada to the other. I don't get as much cultural diversity as going to different countries, but I generally don't like people lol, and would rather visit some lake in the middle of nowhere and camp and canoe.

But aside from Canada I have been to Mexico and Hawaii and those are fun to go to as a break during the winter. I also go down to the US every once in a while to stock up on cheap American alcohol as the border in only an hour away. But mostly I am too broke to go anywhere good even if I did have more time off. My wife is a travel agent but that doesn't much matter, cuz we can get cheap airfare but once we get there we'd have no mney to spend anyway lol. But such is life.

That is all.