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Originally Posted by worth
So those of you who have traveled extensively: how do you do it? Do you generally visit many countries in one trip for months at a time, or do individual trips?
I can never get enough time off work. I spent 2 weeks in Japan, 3 weeks in Egypt and 3 weeks in Western Europe and each of those years I was saving my entire allotted vacation. I want to travel more and have fantasized about quitting my job and taking off for a year. I want to do this and hope one day I will.
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I suspect many of us had one or more big trip where we checked off a few countries. In my case I worked in Finland then spent a month touring around Europe which checked off a number. Mrs. Furnace also has relatives in France so we go often (I've been 7-8 times) and have tried to fit in another country or two when we can. My list is also mostly the compilation of the past 20 years.
For vacation time, we both have careers where we were able to accumulate more weeks and are both at 6 weeks now which means a few trips a year. For example this year we will have 3 trips:
Panama
Finland (4th time), Estonia (2nd time), France (9th?)
Honduras (5th time)
Just thinking that's one thing in the survey which was missing, the number of times you've been to the same country. I think that changes things as it gives you more chance to get off the beaten path and something beyond the usual tourist sites.
Awesome the amount of travel CP has done, we should have a compiled list so we know who to ask for tips.