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I would love to hear your travel experiences. Do you love going places? Any good experiences / recommendations?
 
I will be going 3000 miles to the deep southern state of GA in 4 weeks. I will post some pics when I get back. A lot of people call it the Bible belt
 
the farthest i've been out of my hometown is Jacksonville, Florida. but my family is planning on moving to Georgia soon.
 
MMMMMmmm...Waffle House...so bad; IT"S GOOD!

I used to enjoy travel-until the molesting started at the airports, and now train and bus stations, but we think we are still 'free' in the USA.

Anyway, can't say I am a Globe Trotter though I have been many places; The 'mega' Bass Pro Shop near Houston Texas was memorable. Thought about trying to live in one of the tents on display.....maybe con them into paying me to be there!

Visiting the Ziggurat in Ur was interesting; didn't get to see much of Baghdad-saw lots of desert. The coast of Croatia was nice-Venice Italy was live visiting a sewer when I was there..UGH. Budapest on a summer's night....But then again I was a whole lot backslidin then....

Now, seeing the world as it is, I have heartbreak and anger, hmmmm...might need to work on that.
 
I love traveling, but I also love coming home. That being said, I always fall in love with whatever country, state, or culture I visit and could easy see making any of them home. I often long to return to some of the places I've been and wonder what it would have been like if I had been able to stay.
 
Rusty said:
Ooops...Those are signs of a true traveler and not a "tourist"!God has special uses for folks with those symptoms.
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I can scarcely count the time I was ready to just not return home. I suspect that window has passed sadly. My wife is no traveler. She's not even a good tourist. She likes her roots, which is only odd because she does like camping. Perhaps if I would have been more willing to listen to God, and less wrapped up in my own selfishness sooner in life, many things would have been very different for me, and for others as well.
 
My challenge is usually remembering how to be an American when I return home, though I've had my "rude American" moments as well.
 
the "ugly American" traveler
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It seems to be a hard culture to shake.
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That's an interesting subject, I was warned about that before I came here and then it really hit home when I realized I needed to keep a low profile because I was here "illegally."

I was able to see/experience the "ugly American" trait/character from the tourists that visited the hotels I worked at, with Tahiti being an international tourist attraction I learned that the rest of the world doesn't really like American's, many a time I was embarrassed to be know as an American.

I must give glory to God that put godly men I my life before I came here that taught me to be a servant. I've seen many "Christian missionaries" that have come here that expect to waited on hand and foot by the locals, some times, when they have their Bibles out I'll ask to look at it, ...just to see if John 13:15 is there.

Gene
 
Rusty said:
Parts of Georgia are very religious. Actually the "Bible Belt" encircles the entire South, not just Ga.

Here are some tips for your trip.

1. Try eating grits. Season with salt, pepper and butter....NOT sugar...That is a sin in the South.

2. When asked "Hiyeeew?" the correct resounds is "Fine, and yeeew?" or if you are brave, try "Fair ta middlin'"which will get a chuckle and lower walls.

3. Visit Savannah if you can...THAT was the cultural centre of the South for many centuries.

4. Ask to be introduced to a Waffle House....you will thank me.
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My gf is from Meigs GA. I do want to see Savannah and she is going to take me to the swamps. I WANT fresh hillbilly craw dads. Also I want to go to a Southern baptist church and praise with them to the Lord.

i b gittin back to yall soon.

God Bless :)

Chili out.

Also for hiyeew I will say aight yeeew lol
 
Rusty said:
European Recommendations:

1) Coastal Croatia instead of Greece or Italy...especially now that Greece is failing.

2) Austria instead of Switzerland....cheaper, warmer people and gorgeous.

3) Anywhere in France outside of Paris....especially Breton.

4) Poland....great food, solid Christians and eager for tourists.

5) Bavaria (Southern Germany)...this is what you are taught as "Germany" culturally. Even Northern Germans love it down there.

6) Portugal....off the tourist paths and great history and beaches.

7) Slovenia...NO tourists yet very beautiful and friendly....very cheap and first rate.
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Slovenia? I've read about Koper, Piran, Ljubljana and...Bled! yes, Bled, with its island lake, looks outstanding! Slovenia has some longstanding Protestant history, too, going back centuries.

Blessings.
 
Stayed on the Island of Krk for a week. BEAUTIFUL!!! Rented a fully furnished apartment up on the hillside for about $350 USD back in the day. Walked down to the beaches every morning and gained about 20 pounds eating Gelato!Great cuisine and lots of sites. I would love to go back; but now that I am saved, I might have to take the topless girls on the beach into consideration.....

:D I need Calvin's fortitude to not be attracted to women physically!

http://www.krk.hr/en/
 
Dirtyrottensinner said:
Stayed on the Island of Krk for a week. BEAUTIFUL!!! Rented a fully furnished apartment up on the hillside for about $350 USD back in the day. Walked down to the beaches every morning and gained about 20 pounds eating Gelato!Great cuisine and lots of sites. I would love to go back; but now that I am saved, I might have to take the topless girls on the beach into consideration.....

:D I need Calvin's fortitude to not be attracted to women physically!

http://www.krk.hr/en/
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Must have been after Tito and the Communists' time, then; they didn't use to approve of topless. Mind you, here in Canada, a court in Ontario has given women the right to go topless publicly if they so wish. (I'm hardly recommending it...) But I think you'll find that in Europe it's very widespread, and that 'Don't go in case you see toplessness' would logically have to apply to many European coastlines and lakes.

The Illyrian coast of the former Yugoslavia is breathtaking in its combination of rocks, sand, clear blue sea and sun.

Blessings.
 
Rusty said:
Never saw any in Croatia or Slovenia when I was there...Serbia still uses both...the rest of the former Yugoslavia....no idea
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Well, okay, yes, this makes sense. Shall we say that ethnolinguistically (as opposed to in theory) Serbs and their script aren't always popular in Croatia, yet. (Or in Kosovo...)

But anyway, to plug the Serbian-speaking part, the coastline of Montenegro seems beautiful, also...
 
farouk said:
Well, okay, yes, this makes sense. Shall we say that ethnolinguistically (as opposed to in theory) Serbs and their script aren't always popular in Croatia, yet. (Or in Kosovo...)

But anyway, to plug the Serbian-speaking part, the coastline of Montenegro seems beautiful, also...
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Tis a truth farouk- speaking 'Croatian' to a Serb can be a dangerous thing. (IFOR US Army: Bosnia-Herzogovinia & Croatia 1996)
 
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I had a fellow member of the Hospitality Club from Serbia come stay with us for two weeks here in the mission. A very nice and intelligent young man, now a famous writer and lecturer, he introduced us to a world we never knew existed.

He is engaged to a lady from Koper, Slovenia, who is the twin of my dead daughter; even she is amazed at the exact copy from photos I have sent.

I see it as God's way of comforting us, as we can watch her grow up.
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Interesting and moving human interest aspects. From Koper, formerly known as Capodistria (from where the Protestant Reformer Vergerius also came). In fact, the Italians from Trieste still call it Capodistria.

Blessings.
 
Dirtyrottensinner said:
Tis a truth farouk- speaking 'Croatian' to a Serb can be a dangerous thing. (IFOR US Army: Bosnia-Herzogovinia & Croatia 1996)
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Well, I think it's probably the case of Serbs, Croats and Bosnians speaking basically the same language, with a few variants, but that each group can't bring itself to call the language anything but by a term linked to their own religious group...

You must have had a very, very 'interesting' time... :unsure:

Blessings.
 
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