Does that mean I get to look like Sean Connery when I grow up?
The likeness is remarkable. You'll also have to explain to the wife that it's in your contract to get seduced by a pretty archaeologist by the name of Elsa Schneider whilst in Venice. Best break it to her gently...
The likeness is remarkable. You'll also have to explain to the wife that it's in your contract to get seduced by a pretty archaeologist by the name of Elsa Schneider whilst in Venice. Best break it to her gently...
Location: Originally from the UK but now living in Pennsylvania, USA!!!
Posts: 2,209
Ooh, let me see....
England to California
Distance between Bristol, England, United Kingdom and Long Beach, California, United States, as the crow flies:
5385 miles (8666 km) (4679 nautical miles)
The state of Georgia in the USA. (I live in Minnesota. Actually, wait! No I don't! I'm on Skull Island! Ignore that first sentence! Forget I said anything! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some bloodthirsty dinosaurs to hunt for supper...)
Egypt (lived there two years)
Israel
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Japan
Holland
England
Ireland
Scotland
Germany
Austria
Italy
France
Portugal
Spain
South Africa
Zambia
Ethiopia
Alaska (still the states but it counts)
and
Haiti (after the earthquake)
Location: midlothian Illinois just south of chicago
Posts: 3,370
i live in the the chicago land area usa --- i lived in texas when i was a kid in the rio grande valley near harligen , i have visited orlando florida 5 times and have been to niagra falls on the canadian side and have been to wasaga beach in canada also, that has been my traveling so far .
I used to play this. Catching dysentery, loosing my oxen fording a river, and having to hunt countless bears made me afraid to traverse the Oregon Trail!
From UK; furthest would be Washington (4374 miles). Foreign places I've been:
Most of Western Europe
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Bosnia
Egypt
Iraq
Afghanistan
Missouri
Tunisia
In Egypt I went to Cairo and Luxor - tip for those going to see the pyramids at Giza - one pyramid is closed for 4 months of the year on a rotational basis, so if you plan to go inside the Great Pyramid make sure it's going to be open when you're there!
Well, certainly the most remote land location I've been is the South Pole, where I am again now. The closest I've probably come to my home's antipode is the Australian Outback around Alice Springs and Uluru (Ayer's Rock). Sailing in 2007, I went through the point in the Pacific Ocean that is the farthest from any continental landmass on the planet. That felt pretty far "out there", too.
Current temp @ Pole: -66°F (about 15° warmer than yesterday)
I've been all over the world: the U.K., Germany, France, Belgium, Korea, Qatar, Mexico but I think I am currently in the farthest location I have been from home, Afghanistan: 8091 miles from home (Texas).
Some Middle American countries like Guatemala, Belize and Costa Rica and some others in the western direction, Sri Lanka and The Maldives in the East. I guess the distance of those destinations is comparable.
Lol.
