Comments on: What’s a country? http://www.paulandlibby.com/index.php/2009/08/whats-a-country/ Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states... Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:36:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.10 By: Myndi http://www.paulandlibby.com/index.php/2009/08/whats-a-country/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:07:33 +0000 http://www.paulandlibby.com/?p=207#comment-75 My daughter and I have often debated over that last question: when can you say you’ve actually “been” somewhere? Her argument is if you’ve stepped foot in the location, even just the airport, it counts. Clearly, I completely disagree, though I’m still not sure I have a definitive answer myself.

Having been to a restaurant or one site/monument in a location doesn’t feel like it really counts. You’ve eaten there or you’ve been to the monument, but you haven’t really been to the location. For me to count it for myself, I have to have spent a good 3 days there, visiting sites, walking around, and eating in local joints – not McDonald’s or Cracker Barrel (though I LOVE Cracker Barrel and having none in California, if I see one, we’re stopping). If you’ve given yourself the opportunity to get a feel for the place, to gain some definition of what is special about that place, then you’ve visited it.

But that was a rhetorical question, right? 😉

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