I've been to a few foreign countries
traveling is good & all
I did it a shitload when I was younger
I have no interest in going to Europe
my family is German & Norwegian mostly
I'm an American 1st, the rest is ancestry, I can't do **** about...
I do want to go to see New Zealand
that's still on 'my bucket list'
I was gonna' go to South Africa, no good reason now
too much BS going on in too many places
I traveled in a bunch of touristy places in Mexico too
loved them all
Usually traveled with the buds or kids
sometime the significant others too
Lisa been gone for 2 decades now
I don't worry about any of that, as much as I miss her
she loved horses & rodeo, did barrel racing & cutting horses etc.
we did a lot of truck time together
you really get to know someone in a car/truck 24/7
Hell I haven't seen all I can in California yet even...
I've been to almost all 50 states & Puerto Rico
(mostly racing, but some pleasure vacations or work too)
Mexico, Canada, love the Yukon, Alaska,
I was more into camping, driving
than flying & staying in airports or hotels constantly
"after all I had to travel a lot for business, it sucks, living out of a suitcase"
sometime it's just a burden & you want to be 'a home body'
I've been to Hawaii over a dozen times, seen all the islands
all of them multiple times
Been to the US Virgin Islands, pretty cool
been to Jamaica too, it was a scam artist dream,
right off the cruse ship, I'd never go there again
been to Costa Rica,
also Tahiti & American Samoa when I was young
before I got hooked up to 'one exclusive woman'
Now
I just assume stay home & I love it
take the car out locally & cruise around for a while
perks me right up
been there done that, is the old saying
IMO traveling abroad is overrated, to me anyway
(don't get me wrong there's a select few places I'd love to still see)
I love my country & I've seem most of it
"in a truck towing a 45' trailer usually",
it goes by slow, it's not like a flyover
there's so damn much here in the USA to see
& I've been back & forth west to east & visa versa
some 35+ times on the road
or in a plane 100's of times, to some job/contract etc.
(mostly western & southwestern US)
& I still have only 'scraped the surface' of seeing much of it,
still so damn much to see here 1st
long before I'd ever think of going overseas to Europe or even Africa
I'm content, I don't need to travel anymore
been there done that
I still care more about my racing history & those memories
of the people I met, far more than the places I went...
My life revolved around cars & the car business
racing, my dogs/hunting/camping, my kids or Lisa & her horses...
I saw to each their own
If that's what you want to do, go do it
don't let someone else, tell you,
what's good for you !!
or not, just because that's what they chose to do
'married/single or not'
"I couldn't care any less"
what others think it's my life
or
how my money was to be spent on
what I deem necessary &/or my time
"not yours/not theirs"
Everyone isn't the same
Thank God, it'd be a boring *** world otherwise
not matter where you go or stay...
Some people here get off on telling you,
"you need 'or should', do this or that"
BS they're wrong, **** them, it's your life, you chose,
don't be a prick... like them...
I will say the deep south all from the southwest to Alabama
is some of the most friendly & wholesome (godly too)
& giving people, you'll ever meet...
my $5 worth