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So I'm at this place called college and people are always throwing shit in my face. Vote for this, worship this, study this, go here... But nobody has been anywhere. At all. Most of these people haven't left their hometown.

Where have you peeps been? Lived? Vacationed? What was cool what wasn't?


Here is the Master List, with the odd trips left out

Virginia, Langley
Kansas, Fort Riley
Michigan, Mount Pleasant
Michigan, Big Rapids
Vacation: Florida, Orlando
Florida, Oveido
Texas, Harker Heights/Fort Hood
Vacation: California, Los Angelos
Japan, Fusashi/Yokota Air Base
Vacation: Hawaii, Oahu
Vacation: Hawaii, Oahu
Vacation: Hawaii, Hawaii (Big Island)
Vacation: Hawaii, Kuai
Vacation: Australia, Kairns
Virginia, Fort Lee
Michigan, Michigan State University

Hawaii seems to be the popular place at your school.

No, that's my life. I was born in the first place on that list and am currently in the last place.

Oh, I misunderstood and thought that's where all the people in your school went.

BTW, how was Japan?

I'm problably missing a few:

Lived:
Florida, Miami
Florida, Broward County
Florida, ??? (Some place near Okachobee)
Florida, ??? (Some place near the sawgrass everglades)
Florida, Orlando (The best. The old towns in this city kick ass)
North Carolina, Murphy (Sucks)
Nort Carolina, Hayesville (Sucks more)

Vacationed:
Florida, Key West
Alabama, ??? (Family reunion - redneck central)

BTW, how was Japan?

Kickass. I spent my four years of high school there and graduated with a mere seventy other kids at a Department of Defense high school on Yokota Air Base. I climbed Mt. Fuji, bought Japanese Sonic games (and Twinsticks) in Akihabara, learned to read and write Japanese, got introduced to the Halo LAN party and acted like a total smart ass which only won the respect of my classmates after four years.

The sucktastic parts were waiting for upwards of a week for a game to ship - Halo being the sole exception which arrived in a record three days with basic "one week" shipping. Heroes took about eight or nine which was the longest and probably a bad omen. What else sucked? No Xbox Live possible, but we only figured that out about four days before I left the country for good. I guess that's about it. Oh yes. How could one forget the horrific flights between Japan and the states. My constitution is fairly strong, but I cannot handle jet lag at all. I am a fucking zombie after a long flight. Okay, okay worst case scenario ever:

After failing to recieve my copy of SA2 that I preorderd about three months before release, I decided to pick one up in person during our vacation to Hawaii. My parents wouldn't let me bring my DC as family time was more important then video games or something. So I get up at 6:00am Hawaii time, take the 8-hour flight to Japan along with the lag and we are pulling into our driveway the next day at dinner time. I stay up all night until 7pm the next night playing SA2 at which point I cannot stay up any longer. The next morning, I pack my bags because we are off to the States to go visit relatives. Yeah that's right. Japan-Hawaii-Japan-Detroit. Suck.

That was almost as bad as side trip we took so my mother and I could be Northwest Silver Elite. On our middle trip to Hawaii, we went like this. Japan-Washington (state)-Hawaii-Vacation-Japan. The sidetrip was actually cheaper (God only knows how) but insane. The 12-14 hour flight coupled with the 8-10 hour flight to Hawaii equates to spending almost a full day without being able to move your legs while being served horrible food.

Zeta wrote:I'm problably missing a few:
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North Carolina, (Sucks)
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Fixed.

Seattle
Ft. Hood, Texas

Texas has huge fucking snails. Other than that, I can't say shit for the state.

I know I'm going to butcher the spelling but that water park in Texas, Schlitterbahn. That really kicks ass. So does the heat, but in a bad way, it like kicks your ass.

I thought it was fitting.

NOT ON MATE. Dr. Seuss is never, ever to be mocked. EVER. DR. SEUSS IS SACRED.

Must be nice to be able to travel and vacation so much! Since my family doesn't ever really take vacations, this was a pretty easy list for me to make.


Born in Buffalo, NY

Live in Toledo, OH (now Bowling Green, but it's like 45 minutes away)

Vacationed to:
-Orlando, Florida (the obligatory Disney World trip)
-Memphis, Tennessee (high school band trip to play in a college bowl game)
-Some place in Michigan with the word "Gay" in it. Gaylin? Gaylord? Something Gay, Michigan. (friends and I got a cottage near a lake for a week)
-Niagara Falls (so much better on the Canada side, of course)


And that's pretty much it. We occasionally go visit all of the family that lives in Buffalo and southern Ontario, but that's the most vacation I've ever had. OMG I AM SO DEPRIVED.

Amazing Grant wrote: -Some place in Michigan with the word "Gay" in it. Gaylin? Gaylord? Something Gay, Michigan. (friends and I got a cottage near a lake for a week)

That must have made for a rather queer vacation!

It was a gay ol' time.

Oh, yeah, the topic.

I was born in Lowell, MA.
My family swiftly moved to Dracut, MA.
Then they moved to Plaistow, NH, where I still dwell. (omguknowwheresilive!!!!)
When I was in the seventh grade, my family and I went to Florida to visit my grandfather, but I don't remember where. We were within driving distance of Disney, however.
In my freshman year of high school, I went to Toronto, Ontario with the rest of the music department for music festivals and such. Much fun was had. Canada is much cleaner, and their money is funny looking.
In my junior year of HS, I went to Orlando, FL again with the music department for music festivals and such. We stayed in a Disney hotel.

And that is my poor short list, minus the odd day-trips.

North York, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Poughkeepsie, New York
Austin, TX

Too many states to remember. Plus the rest of them are all the same.

Singapore
Malaysia
Indonesia
Taiwan
Mexico

Florida, Ft. Lauderdale (I was born there, doesn't mean I can spell it worth shit.)
Puerto Rico, San Juan
New York, Syracuse
New Jersey, Saddlebrook
Virginia, Manassas
Virginia, Virginia Beach
Those are pretty much the places I've lived in for over a month.

Anyone else a military brat or did you just move around for the hell of it?

Nice leeching, PWB.

Oh, and I went to Germany once.

I've never moved before, but I've been to a few different places on trips:

Currently living in: Scotland: Portknockie (what, you haven't heard of this place?)

I've also been on holidays and on trips with the school to:
Scotland: Edinburgh
England: Windsor (Legoland), London, Manchester and a couple of other cities.
Spain: Majorca
France: Paris
Belgium: Can't remember quite where now.
America, Florida: Orlando (I bet you've never heard of this place...)

And I think that I'm going to Orlando again before I begin my final year of high school.

Let's see...

Memphis, TN -- This is where I was born, and more or less still live.
Bartlett, TN -- I say "more or less" since this is where I actually live. It's just a suburb of Memphis.
Nashville, TN
West Memphis, AR
Tunica, MS -- They've got lots of... land. Oh, and casinos, too.
Biloxi, MS -- This was the first place I ever got to see any type of beach/oceanfront environment in person.
New Orleans, LA
Dallas, TX -- Went here for a middle school band trip.
Atlanta, GA -- Went here when I was a senior in high school for a Japanese competition.
Washington, D.C. -- Same year in high school I went here to compete in the National Japan Bowl finals.
Birmingham, AL
Hilton Head, SC -- Awesome place. Especially for a foot-shaped island off the southern coast of South Carolina.
Charlotte, NC -- Passed though here recently on my way up north.
Newark, NJ -- Another pass-through on my way up north.
Newburgh, NY -- This is where I was headed when I passed through those other two cities.
Monticello, NY
Liberty, NY
Poughkeepsie, NY
New York, NY -- While I was in NY for the better portion of a week, I made sure to spend one day in the city. Great place. Alas, I didn't get to do everything I really wanted to, so I plan on goin' back one o' these days.

I think that's about it for me.

If we can include places we've passed through while headed somewhere else, then I've covered over half of the USA. Driving cross-country does that.

chriscaffee wrote:I know I'm going to butcher the spelling but that water park in Texas, Schlitterbahn. That really kicks ass. So does the heat, but in a bad way, it like kicks your ass.

You got it right. I went there once this summer, and the lines had about a 4-hour wait each. I just took naps on the tubes in the wave pool all afternoon. Schlitterbahn's a bit overrated.

Boston, MA
Richardson, TX
3 moves in Richardson area
Stafford, TX
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Austin, TX

Been to CA, TN, HI, KY, NY, NJ, ME, FL, GA, CO, IL, WA, LA, umm... I'm forgetting state abbreviations here. Who cares. I've also been all over Taiwan and to Japan, Hong Kong, China twice, Thailand, Sweden, and Denmark.

Why do Americans never leave their own country?

I was born, infamously, in England, and I've been to every other country in the UK, as well as Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. I've also visited the USA few times (Colorado, Orlando, Vegas, NYC, and, briefly, Texas). I'm visiting Canada next year and I have some vague, as yet unfulfilled plan to do some kind of continent-sprawling road trip before I go to university next year. I also have rich parents.

Heat kicks your ass in a good way. I like 95F+ weather to go along with long pants.

*Philly, Pennslyvania (where I was born, I currently live near Philly)
*New Jersey
*Maryland
*Virginia
*Canada
*Korea (three times, the first I spent 3 years in)
~Neo