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Arclight · 11-26-09, 08:31 PM

"No, but I would like to some day in the distant future"

I'd like to see the natural beauty it has to offer, cities don't sit well with me. Everywhere you turn, just more bricks and asphalt. I'd like to do a bit of travelling, see as much of the world as possible, but getting the funds for such an adventure... well, let's keep it at "distant future".

bookworm_020 · 11-26-09, 10:24 PM

No, but I could say I have, as my mother was pregnant with me at the time of their visit.

Prof · 11-27-09, 10:41 AM

I have visited the US twice; once with family in 1997 and once on my own in 2004.

The first trip was a 3-week driving holiday, starting in San Francisco and ending up in Los Angeles via Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, plus a few other places. I particularly liked San Francisco, and I persuaded my parents to visit the USS Pampanito, too!

The second trip was part of a 6-week holiday to New Zealand and Australia. I really wanted to visit the US Submarine Force Museum in Groton, so I flew to NZ (from the UK) via Boston (changing planes in LA). I stayed there for 3 days, and took the Amtrak down the coast to New London to visit the museum one morning. Unfortunately, the day I chose to visit, they closed at lunchtime for a private function, so I had to get in early! I think I might even have been the first one through the door that morning! Boston was a nice city, even though I did get soaked by the biggest thunderstorm I have ever experienced. Also managed to visit the USS Constitution and USS Cassin Young while I was there.

I'd love to go again at some point, and try to get as many warship visits in as possible!

goldorak · 11-27-09, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Question for all you non-US guys. Have you been to the US? Please select a choice and it would be great if you could make a post with details about your time here (how long, when, what was interesting, etc) or why you are not interested in visiting America. All votes should be accompanied with a post, please.

Especially you guys who post here a lot, don't be shy.

This is in conjunction with a tourism agency that contacted Subsim.

Many thanks, and happy Thanksgiving!

Neal

Sure, I visited the US in the early ninties.
It was a great vacation and I appreciated my staying in New York city for almost 3 weeks.

Unfortunately seeing as how foreigners are treated when visting the US nowadays I don't plan on ever going back again.

Fish · 11-27-09, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I spend, on average, about a month out of each year in the US. They always pick me for the "random" security check and baggage search.

Visit a barber next time.

JU_88 · 11-27-09, 05:24 PM

I went to U.S once, 9 years ago in 2000 -but only for a few days,
It was an oppotunist thing really, I was in Uni and my girfriend at the time was Japanese and in the UK on a student Visa.
She had to renew her Visa for another year so she basically had to leave the country and come back. At the time my older Brother was living in NewYork so we figured we would pay him a visit.

We flew there with Lufthansa (German Airline) but it was connecting flight via Frankfurt... So we flew from London to Germany, then from germany (back over england ughhh) all the way to JFK, and we arrived late at night.
The funny part was that my Brother told me not to tell immgration about him, because he was working odd jobs but didnt have a green card and was only on a tourist visa

But the immagration officer I saw actually got suspicous, saything that I looked familiar - he though he had seen me before and that my name rang a bell, after I convinced him it was my first time, he joked with me and stamped my Passport for 3 months.
When I told my Brother this, he asked me if the imagration guy was; short, bald, Italian with a mostache (discribed him perfectly) ,So seems like the guy actually remembered my brother out of all the millions of faces he sees every week. Impressive - that man was clearly VERY good at his job

We took a yellow cab to Brothers apart ment over in Williamburg in Brooklyn. The cab driver has a huge fat balck guy with shades (at night)
and giant afro

, He didnt speak much accept to curse other driver on the road, and occassionally pulled out a big afro comb he kept tucked under the sun sheild to bush his hair. LOL

First time I saw the the Manhatten Skyline all lit up - from the cab I was blown away

I always though it looked awesome in photos and on TV, but it was really something to see it for real, just the scale of it seemed incredible.
I say 'was' because the WTC towers where still up in 2000,

Im glad I got to see them before their destruction, they were were really beautiful buildings.

My brother place was on street in Williamsburg that was home to Peurtericans, had their flags everywhere, old pople playing chess on the sidewalk. Gang of teenagers hanging around listening to music, nothing too intimidating though

My borther said that in his 2 years of living there the most greif he every got was the occasional ... nod accompanied with a harmless "hey Greengo!"

Most New yorkers seemed pretty friendly, we spent our first night drinking in a Brooklyn bar, where Brother was regular. I never tried to drink in Manhatten as I was told they were more strict with ID checks, I was 20 - so under the legal age to drink by 1 year, (though in the UK, I was 2 years over - as it was 18 back then)
We spent the next three days just wondering around Manhatten really. My girlfreind wanted to check out the shops (obviously)
I was impressed with the NYC subway and the way its flat rate $1.50 to go any place you want, nice and simple. London underground pricing goes by all these stupid Zones that make no sense at all.

Although NYC streets are one big grid, it sometime tricky to get your bearings. because everyhting is so symetrical, if your following a map it somtimes takes 15 mins to walk one block, but which point you realise you are heading the wrong way..
In the end used the Empire State Building as reference for North and the Twin towers for south.
But I wished i had a compass at the time

We wondered aound Central Park and Metropoliatn Museum (briefly) we went around China town (10x the size of the one in London)
ALOt of walking, one time we were a few blocks from the WTC and i wanted to go up the South tower, but it was getting dark and cloudy, so we figured we wouldt see much.
(And now I'll never get the chance, bleedin' Terrorists

)

What else can i say? I loved New york (manhatten & Brooklyn), it had really awesome feel to it, a really great Athmosphere and loads of character. I could see why my Brother liked to live there.
It was really a mixed up place too (much like London is), like you can find just about anything there.
What was really intresting to me was that every area or street I saw reminded me of a british counterpart in London - only a little different, It was like a beefed up London in many respects.. kinda weird but the two cities seemed to have ALOT in common so it almost felt like home...

I definately want to go back again there someday, but everyone should go at least once.....

JScones · 11-27-09, 07:29 PM

I've done California and Hawaii. I was meant to do Texas last year, but business requirements changed. Fort Worth is still on the cards for some point though.

I may go and do the East Coast one day (at least Maine through Maryland), but not before I've gone back to the UK, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand. TBH I've simply had better "people" experiences in these other places.

Cohaagen · 11-28-09, 05:22 PM

Hey Neal, I used to do marketing research on behalf of a US company here in the UK (temp job only). What's their name? I might know them.

jumpy · 11-28-09, 05:51 PM

I said 'no & do not plan to' - largely to do with the ridiculous formality of having my fingerprints and such like taken in order to enter the country as an international traveller/tourist.
It's not something I support here in the UK and it does not sit well with me for various reasons, not least of which is being regarded with deep-set suspicion and mistrust as a citizen of a close ally (or so it could seem).
Closest I've got is the Canadian side of Niagara falls.

So, really more to do with my principals than any statement about the country or its people.

Méo · 11-28-09, 06:00 PM

Yes but it was more than 20 years ago when i was 6 or 7.

Will probably make a trip to Europe first.

A trip to New York is something i always wanted to do.

If you guys know anything cool near your northern border, let me know.

(i could probably afford some cheap trip in the meantime).

View Poll Results: Have you visited the United States?
Yes	21	50.00%
No, and do not plan to	5	11.90%
No, but I would like to some day in the near future	4	9.52%
No, but I would like to some day in the distant future	12	28.57%
Voters: 42. You may not vote on this poll

11-26-09, 08:31 PM	#46
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	"No, but I would like to some day in the distant future" I'd like to see the natural beauty it has to offer, cities don't sit well with me. Everywhere you turn, just more bricks and asphalt. I'd like to do a bit of travelling, see as much of the world as possible, but getting the funds for such an adventure... well, let's keep it at "distant future". __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

11-26-09, 10:24 PM	#47
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	No, but I could say I have, as my mother was pregnant with me at the time of their visit. __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

11-28-09, 05:51 PM	#54
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	I said 'no & do not plan to' - largely to do with the ridiculous formality of having my fingerprints and such like taken in order to enter the country as an international traveller/tourist. It's not something I support here in the UK and it does not sit well with me for various reasons, not least of which is being regarded with deep-set suspicion and mistrust as a citizen of a close ally (or so it could seem). Closest I've got is the Canadian side of Niagara falls. So, really more to do with my principals than any statement about the country or its people. __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

11-27-09, 10:41 AM	#48
Prof Medic Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cambridge, UK Posts: 167 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I have visited the US twice; once with family in 1997 and once on my own in 2004. The first trip was a 3-week driving holiday, starting in San Francisco and ending up in Los Angeles via Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, plus a few other places. I particularly liked San Francisco, and I persuaded my parents to visit the USS Pampanito, too! The second trip was part of a 6-week holiday to New Zealand and Australia. I really wanted to visit the US Submarine Force Museum in Groton, so I flew to NZ (from the UK) via Boston (changing planes in LA). I stayed there for 3 days, and took the Amtrak down the coast to New London to visit the museum one morning. Unfortunately, the day I chose to visit, they closed at lunchtime for a private function, so I had to get in early! I think I might even have been the first one through the door that morning! Boston was a nice city, even though I did get soaked by the biggest thunderstorm I have ever experienced. Also managed to visit the USS Constitution and USS Cassin Young while I was there. I'd love to go again at some point, and try to get as many warship visits in as possible!

11-27-09, 05:24 PM	#51
JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,803 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	I went to U.S once, 9 years ago in 2000 -but only for a few days, It was an oppotunist thing really, I was in Uni and my girfriend at the time was Japanese and in the UK on a student Visa. She had to renew her Visa for another year so she basically had to leave the country and come back. At the time my older Brother was living in NewYork so we figured we would pay him a visit. We flew there with Lufthansa (German Airline) but it was connecting flight via Frankfurt... So we flew from London to Germany, then from germany (back over england ughhh) all the way to JFK, and we arrived late at night. The funny part was that my Brother told me not to tell immgration about him, because he was working odd jobs but didnt have a green card and was only on a tourist visa But the immagration officer I saw actually got suspicous, saything that I looked familiar - he though he had seen me before and that my name rang a bell, after I convinced him it was my first time, he joked with me and stamped my Passport for 3 months. When I told my Brother this, he asked me if the imagration guy was; short, bald, Italian with a mostache (discribed him perfectly) ,So seems like the guy actually remembered my brother out of all the millions of faces he sees every week. Impressive - that man was clearly VERY good at his job We took a yellow cab to Brothers apart ment over in Williamburg in Brooklyn. The cab driver has a huge fat balck guy with shades (at night) and giant afro , He didnt speak much accept to curse other driver on the road, and occassionally pulled out a big afro comb he kept tucked under the sun sheild to bush his hair. LOL First time I saw the the Manhatten Skyline all lit up - from the cab I was blown away I always though it looked awesome in photos and on TV, but it was really something to see it for real, just the scale of it seemed incredible. I say 'was' because the WTC towers where still up in 2000, Im glad I got to see them before their destruction, they were were really beautiful buildings. My brother place was on street in Williamsburg that was home to Peurtericans, had their flags everywhere, old pople playing chess on the sidewalk. Gang of teenagers hanging around listening to music, nothing too intimidating though My borther said that in his 2 years of living there the most greif he every got was the occasional ... nod accompanied with a harmless "hey Greengo!" Most New yorkers seemed pretty friendly, we spent our first night drinking in a Brooklyn bar, where Brother was regular. I never tried to drink in Manhatten as I was told they were more strict with ID checks, I was 20 - so under the legal age to drink by 1 year, (though in the UK, I was 2 years over - as it was 18 back then) We spent the next three days just wondering around Manhatten really. My girlfreind wanted to check out the shops (obviously) I was impressed with the NYC subway and the way its flat rate $1.50 to go any place you want, nice and simple. London underground pricing goes by all these stupid Zones that make no sense at all. Although NYC streets are one big grid, it sometime tricky to get your bearings. because everyhting is so symetrical, if your following a map it somtimes takes 15 mins to walk one block, but which point you realise you are heading the wrong way.. In the end used the Empire State Building as reference for North and the Twin towers for south. But I wished i had a compass at the time We wondered aound Central Park and Metropoliatn Museum (briefly) we went around China town (10x the size of the one in London) ALOt of walking, one time we were a few blocks from the WTC and i wanted to go up the South tower, but it was getting dark and cloudy, so we figured we wouldt see much. (And now I'll never get the chance, bleedin' Terrorists ) What else can i say? I loved New york (manhatten & Brooklyn), it had really awesome feel to it, a really great Athmosphere and loads of character. I could see why my Brother liked to live there. It was really a mixed up place too (much like London is), like you can find just about anything there. What was really intresting to me was that every area or street I saw reminded me of a british counterpart in London - only a little different, It was like a beefed up London in many respects.. kinda weird but the two cities seemed to have ALOT in common so it almost felt like home... I definately want to go back again there someday, but everyone should go at least once.....

11-27-09, 07:29 PM	#52
JScones Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,501 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I've done California and Hawaii. I was meant to do Texas last year, but business requirements changed. Fort Worth is still on the cards for some point though. I may go and do the East Coast one day (at least Maine through Maryland), but not before I've gone back to the UK, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand. TBH I've simply had better "people" experiences in these other places.

11-28-09, 05:22 PM	#53
Cohaagen Frogman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 296 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Hey Neal, I used to do marketing research on behalf of a US company here in the UK (temp job only). What's their name? I might know them.

11-28-09, 06:00 PM	#55
Méo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Quebec City Posts: 1,153 Downloads: 258 Uploads: 0	Yes but it was more than 20 years ago when i was 6 or 7. Will probably make a trip to Europe first. A trip to New York is something i always wanted to do. If you guys know anything cool near your northern border, let me know. (i could probably afford some cheap trip in the meantime).