cdayton

Keeping busy during sequestration, my wife and I have been going through old photo albums from the pre-digital era. In 1990, we did a round trip that originated in Annapolis, MD and ended in Dunedin, NZ (and, of course, returned). I drove my Mazda B2000 truck from Annapolis to Oakland while my wife, more sensibly, flew across country. We then attended a daughter’s wedding in the Red Woods and flew to Auckland, NZ with a brief stop in Honolulu. From there, we bused to Wellington, crossed the strait and drove to Dunedin near the Otago Peninsula at the South end of the South Island. Then, reversed to Oakland and drove back East camping along the way. Using as-the-crow-flies distances (under estimates), the total distance traversed comes to 21,040 and about 6 weeks. Can anyone beat that for a single vacation trip?

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Well, apparently, I've traveled a lot more than you have over the last several months. All of those trips were photography related.
--Bob

Greg from Romeoville illinois Loc: Romeoville illinois

Does it count if I was in the Navy and have been around the world 7 times all without flying?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I live a sheltered life. I've only been to Canada (family) and Iceland. (so far)

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Two year vacation in beautiful SE Asia. Fall 66 to Jan 69.
Illinois to Oakland via airliner with a whole company of friends.
Oakland to San Diego to Vietnam via ship with a stop in Naha Okinawa
Vietnam to LA via Fort Lewis and back on special leave when my step father died.
Vietnam to Tokyo and back
Vietnam to Fort Lewis to Pennsylvania to St Louis, to Kentucky to St Louis to LA, to Fort Lewis and back to Vietnam-twice-six months apart on special leave (I volunteered to stay in Vietnam another 6 months and the round trip tickets were my prize-twice-I think I am smarter now, I hope, maybe.) THE WIFE SAYS NO, I AM NOT!
Then home via Fort Lewis and to LA by bus.

Since then only LA to Kentucky and back by car 3 times, by plane twice.
LA to Friday Harbor, WA and back twice and LA to Modesto to go fishing with my Uncle twice
and LA to Uruapan Mexico and back by car and bus as part of Geography/Anthropology field school.

Other than that I am a homebody. Well the commute to work for 35 years, 6 of those years 15 miles one way, 20 years 19 miles one way and then the present house 44 miles one way for 9 years. And retired for 13 years now.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

In my grad school days I went to Yugoslavia - but I have stuck to the US and lower Canada recently.

MrBossHK Loc: The West Valley of Phoenix metro area

usnret Loc: Woodhull Il

Short stop in Okinawa to refuel I'm guessing? What ship were you on?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I think my trip from Raleigh NC to Ft Lewis, WA, to Yakoda, JA to Cameron Bay, RVN and then back to Raleigh via Alaska and SF a year later was about 23k miles. Does that count?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

USS General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) that was in Nov 1966. We picked up fresh food etc and were there for one day. I was one of those who actually got off the ship. A group of us walked a few miles along the coast with a senior NCO who had been their for the battle in 1945, bought some cokes etc and back to the ship. Not quite 600 Army troops aboard and a bit over 1200 Marines.
Just before we got there our unit got the word that the Infantry Division whose base camp we were to build and run up near the Cambodian Border had failed their pre-deployment evaluation. They got a new CO and a 90 day retraining cycle. The Army wasn't about to leave us in a camp with just a few Special Forces and their Yard troops for 3 months so they were going to break us up as individual replacements. Our Colonel jumped ship in Naha and flew to Saigon to see some of his buddies from West Point. He got us the job of Qui Nhon Sub Area Command for the 1st Log. So after dropping off the Marines in Da Nang the ship went down to Cam Rahn to drop off the other Army units then back to Qui Nhon to drop our company off. We were delayed three days going in circles in a Typhoon then we had to go ashore in Higgins Boats on the same beach the Marines had landed on a bit over a year before because the waves were so big it was dangerous for the ship to go into the harbor. That was "fun", time the tossing and rolling, run out to the end of a platform suspended on the side of the ship toss your duffel bag into the boat and then on the next roll jump onto your duffel. Then came the dangerous part, the beach was full of venders who tried to sell us everything from Cokes to ... (well, not their sisters or virgins).

Fayle Loc: Seward, Alaska and Rionegro, Colombia

My travels are documented on my smugmug site.
www.fayledvisionphotography.com

RoswellAlien

Courtesy USN:
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (with side trips to Japan, Subic Bay, Singapore, oh, and off N. Korea — Pueblo Incident.)

On our own:
Thailand x2
Australia/New Zealand
GB x2
Germany
Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland
Basil to Amsterdam (Rhine cruise)
Prague to Budapest (bus/Danube cruise)

Since mid March — nowhere (had to cancel one domestic and one European trip)

This, too, shall pass.

Stay safe, Hogs!!!!!

fetzler Loc: North West PA

Perth, Australia that is a far a you can get and still be on dry land.

Also

Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Romania (many, many times), Bulgaria, Albania, USSR, and Poland.

I grew on the border with Canada and my wife's family is Canadian so Canada many times.

G. Crook Loc: Linden, TX

Retired 25 year Air Force veteran. Home town was Phoenix, AZ. 3 tours in Korea, 2 tours in Japan. Assignments in FL, Ohio, NM, twice in CA. TDY's to Canada, Alaska, the Azores and England during my last assignment in CA. While in Japan i hit nearly every country on the Pacific rim with the furthest being Diego Garcia in the Indian ocean. Vacationed in Canada and Mexico. Been to 38 states. I consider myself fairly well travelled. Now retired as a "Gentleman Farmer" in east Texas.

kerry12 Loc: Harrisburg, Pa.

Farthest I've traveled was Hawaii. Lived there for a year and a half.