High Functioning Traveler

[jknitt]

My visa says "Frankfurt."

My passport says "USA."

I love exploring new places.

This seems new.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

It has always been my dream to be a world traveler. So far I have gotten out of the US only maybe three times. Canada twice, Israel once. Shooting for the UK in 2015.

[jknitt]

Take advantage of what you can. The US is huge and offers lots of different people and cultures and climates to explore. In 30+ years I've never been on the East Coast.

[Caya]

Hello jknitt and welcome to the forum!

 

Hope you'll like it here, it's certainly a very international community, which should appeal to a traveller like you .

[Ruthyone]

Hi jknitt -

 

Enjoy yourself on the Sherlock Forum              

[Carol the Dabbler]

You have an American passport and you've never been to the east coast.  What part of the country are you from / in, then?

 

[sherlockandjohn]

Yay, a travel thread! I've travelled quite a bit, though mostly on holidays - however, I did spend 7 months in New Zealand in 2012 and had the best time ever. Other favorite places I've been to are the western US, Ireland, Madeira. Beautiful nature is what attracts me the most, as well as simply broadening my horizon.

[jknitt]

@Carol, I'm from Wisconsin. I've actually traveled quite a bit throughout the US, and while technically I have been on the east coast, it was Florida...so that doesn't count. The farthest east I've been is to Niagara Falls in NY...unless the count running through the Philadelphia airport.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Nope, Florida isn't the "east coast" -- I believe anything south of DC is referred to as "the Atlantic seaboard."  Same as "west coast" doesn't generally include Alaska and Hawaii, even though they have plenty of coastline and are much further west.

 

[Ruthyone]

I have travelled on holiday to the usual places, Greece, Crete, Spain, Majorca, Austria and Tunisia - that's a while ago. For the past few years, I've explored beautiful Scotland and enjoyed the lochs and mountains there.

If I were to gain a windfall, I would travel to the USA and visit not only New York but would love to see the Rocky Mountains. My friend's nephew got married in Colorado and I received a postcard with 'The Garden of the Gods' - which looks fantastic.

[jknitt]

It's definitely hard to see "all" of the US in one trip. I would give myself at LEAST six months to do a proper coast to coast tour.

I've only been to Edinburgh, but I would love to explore more of Scotland. It's relatively small but also very secluded.

 

I always encourage people to explore what they can. If you can't get out of Yorkshire, then take a drive to somewhere you've never been on the weekend. Go to that kitschy Jorvick museum in York...better yet, take a drive up to Lindisfarne! We take our homes for granted so easily that we overlook the amazing things that are just around the corner.

[Undead Medic]

 

 

I always encourage people to explore what they can. If you can't get out of Yorkshire, then take a drive to somewhere you've never been on the weekend. Go to that kitschy Jorvick museum in York...better yet, take a drive up to Lindisfarne! We take our homes for granted so easily that we overlook the amazing things that are just around the corner.

 

It is one of my pet peeves that people so easily dismiss just how much cool stuff there is to see on their own doorsteps, in favour of foreign "package" holidays. Besides, sitting on a beach or by a pool for two weeks solid would bore me pretty quickly. I much prefer to get off the beaten track and see what a place is really like, rather than stick to the 'touristy bits'.

[Caya]

Yet most of us seem to do that, taking our own hometown for granted. When I was seventeen, we were in London for three weeks via school (and I shall forever love our English teacher for arranging that for us) as exchange students, attending classes but also making trips and sightseeing. I remember coming to school one morning and raving about Madame Tussaud's, where we'd been the day before. The general consensus among the local students was that yes, they'd all heard it was super, and they really should go see it some day . I just couldn't understand them.

 

Fast forward a decade, and my future husband visits Vienna for the first time. I take him to the city centre, to see the sights ... and realize that the last time I've done the local tourist rounds was in primary school. "Oh, yeah, that's the Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, because there's a stick over there, and there are iron nails in it ... I think that has something to do with travelling apprentices in the Middle Ages, anyway, it's really old and important."

 

To his credit, he still married me . But before the first in-laws arrived, I armed myself with several tourist guides and hit the books. Nowadays I can do a semi-professional city tour, and damned if I didn't discover a lot of cool stuff I never knew of in the process of learning more about the city I'd only lived in all my life .

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I'm guilty of that. There are places in Maine I have never seen.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Considering that Indiana is nearly as big as England, I guess it's not surprising that I haven't seen it all.  Not even close.

 

But I have driven one lap around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (home of the Indianapolis 500 auto race), probably the most famous attraction in the state (judging by how many people I've met in other parts of the country who knew nothing else about Indiana).

 

[jknitt]

Now all you need to do is visit Pawnee city hall and you're all set!

[throwAway_12345678]

I have been to the UK once for 1.5 weeks. I visited the London Eye, Tower Bridge, Oxford Street ,Madame Tussaud's and Wales. Now, ever since I have become a huge Sherlock fan all I want to do is visit  London . In my visit I plan to go to the Sherlock Holmes museum which is at 221B Baker St. , Visit Bart's to try to figure out a possible theory about how he might have done it and travel excessively in the London Underground. Living in a place where there is no metro or even a remote concept of public transport makes you ride in the metro .

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I feel the same way and am already planning my first trip to London in 2015. But I also want to go to Dartmoor.