2002: where did you go?

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i went to quite a few places this year!

london (where i live!)
manchester
bradford
leeds
halifax
berlin
brighton
hastings
cambridge
sheppey
washington dc/alexandria, va
baltimore
philadelphia
boston/cambridge, ma
new york city
goole
koln
bonn
dusseldorf
bridlington

what about you?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm.

Leicester
Las Vegas
Glasgow
Camber Sands
Fleet
New York
Brighton
Jersey City
Venice
Luton
Geneva
Walthamstow
Denver

(bold type signifying new places)

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

London
Norwich
NYC
Boston
Philly
Pittsburgh

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to Skegness

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

You glamourpuss ;x

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I know! I go to all the best places. I even visited Birmingham twice as well.

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

straight to hell boys, straight to hell

― Queen G (Queeng), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this was a 'where did the year go' thread....

Mark, you forgot brussels

Amsterdam
Glasgow
Brussels
calais
Rheims
Chesterfield
Camber Sands
Bath
Bristol
Manchester
York
Birkenhead
Oxford
Cyprus
Jersey

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

London

Saffron Walden

Little Walden

North Fambridge

Althorne

Brighton

Epping Forest

― David (David), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

liverpool
st helens
york
whitby
ingleton
malham
settle
blackpool
glenridding
ambleside
chester
southport
derby

how rubbish is that? i left the north of england once - to go to the midlands. can i do 2001 instead?

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, manchester a few times as well.

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Edinburgh (my home)
London
Slough
Glasgow
Lisbon
Livingston

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

London
Wolverhampton
Birmingham
Venice
Nottingham
Berlin
Camber Sands
Watford
Paris
Barcelona
Figeres (can't spell it, place Dali lived for a while, that's rubbish of me isn't it?)
Glastonbury
Brighton
Reading
Galsgow
Manchester

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and Oxford.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Portsmouth (live there)
Paris (for about 2 hours)
Les Arcs
Reading
Sherbourne
Brighton
Southampton

Oh! and London :)

First time in 3 years that I can't include Glasgow.

― robster (robster), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

this is the first year of my life that i've not left the country i live in [england]. crawled all over it on tour though.

― masonicboom, Monday, 30 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

New York
San Francisco
San Diego
Reno/Black Rock City
Tampa/St. Petersburg
various places in New Jersey

Next year should be much more international (Helsinki's already looking likely).

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Long Island
Queens
Brooklyn
Madison NJ

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm going to do this by area codes, since i didn't leave the country.

516
215/267
610
609
617
212/917/646
512
201
718/917/347
202
703
207
203
570

― maura (maura), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, boy-ee, Middle America in da hizzouse!!!!

Louisville, KY
Richmond, KY
Maysville, KY
Newport, KY
Mammoth Cave (in KY)
Charleston, WV
Nashville, TN
Knoxville, TN
Murfreesboro, TN
Memphis, TN
Charlotte, NC
Ashville, NC
Rock Hill, SC
Cincinatti, OH
Columbus, OH
Oxford, OH

Yeah, I only left the time zone ONCE! I am Captain Travel.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

New York (outside of my normal NYC environs, anyway)
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati Airport)
New Mexico
Arizona

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Kingswood
Oxford
London
Hamburg
Normandy
Glastonbury
Brighton
Cornwall
York
Southend
Bristol

Another year gone, another year when I didn't go to America :(

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

― maura (maura), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to Reykjavik and other places around Iceland. And really, that's about it.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Boston (twice)

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, I clearly got the bad crack today. I also went to Richmond and North Carolina, and will go to NYC tomorrow.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Forgot to include Farnborough in my list. Oh the glamour.

― robster (robster), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

edmonton (alberta, canada) - i live here
joussard (alberta, canada)
london, uk
harpenden, uk
st. albans, uk
london colney, uk
fort mcmurray (alberta, canada)

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Bristol!
Manchester!
Beirut!
Baalbek!
other places in Lebanon!
The Hague!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Not counting home time zone, NYC and Hawaii and Colorado. I'll be doing them all again this year too and probably Rome also.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

London
Hastings
Rye
Ashford
Manchester
Oxford
Birmingham

(I don't think I've been anywhere else, except travelling through)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Pittsburgh
NYC
Chicago and many of its suburbs (home)
Milwaukee
Indiana (sounds tremendously boring but a bunch of us rented a house. was cool.)

hm, not much travel this year.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Brighton
Scarborough
Glastonbury
Amsterdam
Haarlem
Portsmouth

next year i hope Edinburgh, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Chicago and maybe Prague will figure

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna, it's Figueres, and it rocks..

Various places in Thailand
Istanbul
Wolverhampton
Chorley
Camber sands
Calais
Rheims
Oxford
Brighton
Billericay
Hertford
Bracknell
Paris

― chris (chris), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Ealing
Acton
Hanwell
Greenford
Central London
Richmond
Hammersmith
Southall
Hayes
Wood Green
Chiswick
Shepherd's Bush
Alperton
Brentford

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Unlike everyone else, I haven't been to Camber Sands this year, and I practically live there. hmmm...

― Graham (graham), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

But I haven't left London!!!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Next year I might go to Norway and Sweden.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Home
Darlington
Middlebrough
Sunderland
Stockton
Newcastle
York
Sheffield
Berwick
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Keswick
Penrith
Manchester
Stockport
London
Paris

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Leiden (home)
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
The Hague
Utrecht
Middelburg
Flushing
Nijmegan
Veenendaal
Antwerp
London
Liverpool
Huddersfield
Malham
Newcastle
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Aberdeen
Fettercairn
Glasgow

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

BTW what was the Dirty Vicar doing in Beirut? Worth a visit?

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Cambridge. That's all.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Philadelphia
Chesapeake
Geneseo
Schenectady
New York City
Bates
Williamstown
Hanover
Annapolis
Hamilton
Montreal
Ithaca

It was very much a college-visiting year.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

dunedin, port chalmers, aramoana, timaru, christchurch, lyttelton, auckland, millers flat, glenorchy, invercargill, wanaka, owaka, bunch of other places,...AK was the only time i left the south island

― duane, Monday, 30 December 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

new york city (where i live!)
london
boston/cambridge, ma (where i used to live)
princeton, nj (where my parents live)

in 2003: deutschland, hoffentlich
also san francisco!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

well Captain Travel, I'm your sidekick...Colonel Homebody.

I went out of Massachusetts once. And it was to Connecticut.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 30 December 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

london
prague
brno
vienna
bratislava
budapest
balaton
krakow
amsterdam
milwaukee
madison

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 30 December 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

This is really depressing, as I barely went anywhere this year. Meh.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 30 December 2002 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

big up the west london massive eh jel?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

fer real, I missed out Uxbridge and Notting Hill!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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New York, Minneapolis, Boston, Hoboken. Yep, I'm poor.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

ARthur:
Zzzzzzzzz. I don't care where I go in 2003, I just want to learn how to surf.

then Martin:
Arthur, I think California might be a better bet for that than, say, Phoenix.

go rent this!

― gygax!, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Mad jealous that Douglas got to go to Tampa.

I went to:

San Francisco
Sacramento
San Jose
Olympia, Washington
Seattle
Springfield, Illinois
New York City
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Dublin, Ireland
Sligo, Ireland
London
Amsterdam
Nashville
Chicago
South Bend, Indiana
Cleveland
Hamilton, New York
Cambridge, MA
Baltimore
Greensboro, NC
Carrboro, NC
Atlanta
Tallahassee
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Norman, Oklahoma
Omaha, Nebraska

and various places around Iowa

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

toronto (canada) and Goa and Pune (India).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

umm...greater toronto area (where i live and work)
london, england (3 times, mostly ealing)
detroit
chicago
portadown (people looked at me funny, but i still liked it as i found some nice clothes! and also n.irish accents all around me, phowar!)

next year (hopefully)

new york
japan
italy

also i am moving to london!

― sand.y, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Seattle, WA
Boston & Belmont, MA
Vancouver, BC
Portland & Cannon Beach, OR
Methow Valley (in the North Cascades), WA
Couer D'Alene, Idaho
Livingston (near Yellowstone Park), Montana
Jamestown & Fargo, ND
St. Paul & Minneapolis, MN
Chicago, IL
somewhere near Akron, OH
Many places in CT
Many places in MD
Petersburg, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Washington D.C.
Arlington, VA
Reno, NV

Oddly enough, I don't think I was in NYC at all in 2002; first time in like 10 years...

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 2 January 2003 02:59 (twenty-three years ago)

the greater Seattle area
Portland
Dayton, OH

geez, that's not much! Next year, though, NYC and California are on the agenda.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 2 January 2003 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Only Auckland, Rotorua and Melbourne. More places than usual I think.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Thursday, 2 January 2003 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

oamaru, dunedin, christchurch, wellington, auckland.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 2 January 2003 06:40 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

2004 update;

Home
Darlington
Middlesbrough
Durham
Stockton
Newcastle
York
Sheffield
Berwick
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Manchester
Stockport
Oxford
Stoke
Scarborough
Matlock
Wycombe
London

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago (moved here)
Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Orlando, FL
Nassau, the Bahamas

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Boston (and suburbs)
Philadelphia
NYC
Lenox
Lee
Pittsfield

(someone shoot me)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

NYC (home)
Chicago
Montreal
London
Paris
Avignon
Amsterdam

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Maui
Paris

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

OC/LA (home as such)
San Diego
Carmel/Monterey
Portland
Seattle
Caracas
Isla Margarita

I would liked to have gone to more spots but you can't have everything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Flushing Meadows
Eastern Parkway
New Haven
Boston
Houston

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Memphis
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Sydney
Cairns

and of course, PULCO-ARK

― Pleasant//Plains, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Portland, ME
New York
Boston
Sydney
Wollongong
Bathurst
Cowra
Canowindra
Orange
Katoomba
Melbourne
Adelaide
Qourn
Coober Pedy
Alice Springs

― C0L1N B--KETT, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago/suburbs, IL
Kalamazoo, MI
Bay Area, CA
Montague/Whitehall, MI
St. Joseph, MI
Brooklyn/Manhattan, NY
Lake Geneva, WI

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to::

berlin! (mmm currywurst)

bergerac!

bordeaux!

st-emilion! (mmmmm macarons!)

london!

brighton!

epping!

glasgow!

kinross!

edinburgh!

knoxville!

tellico! (mmm cornbread)

and tomorrow.. NEW YORK!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

dont forget my cigarettes. we have to go this party by my apt tomorrow, btw.

(also, i went ot milwaukee!)

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

New York
Big Sur
Bodega Bay

not a big travel year for me....next year doesn't look to promising either. Ah, the days when I didn't give a fuck about my credit card balances!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Lille
Malmo
Matlock
Bakewell
Dronfield
Chesterfield
Maidenhead
Berwick
Reading
Bilbao
New York
Miami
The Keys
Calais
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Birmingham
Chorley
Chester

I think I missed some

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Paisley
Glasgow
Clydebank
Cumbernauld
Malaga
Gibraltar
Benalmadena
Fuengirola
Coventry

It's not been a terribly exciting year. I don't think I even made it to Inverness.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

2004:

london
leeds
bradford
helsinki
tampere
tallinn
seattle
bremerton
portland
san francisco
oakland
berkeley
ongar
kelvedon hatch
sacramento
reno
truckee
colfax
salt lake city
manchester
new york
memphis
holly springs
oxford, ms
clarksdale
moon lake
tunica
keswick

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

how?!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

2004:

knoxville (obv)
nashville
washington d.c.
new york city
london

Not much in the way of quantity, but it was a pretty quality year of traveling, I think. I had a lot of fun. That couple weeks of new york->london->new york->washington felt crap while I was doing it, though (except for london which was life-affirming as usual).

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

rang in the new year in rome!
newark
chicago
indianapolis & northwestern suburbs
terre haute, IN
various truck stops across illinois
nassau, bahamas
moved to st louis mo

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I went to Troutville, Virginia as well.

That was an accident.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot bishop's stortford

what happened roxy? (did you take a wrong turn at albequoique?)

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot oban too

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Gareth can't count "Moon Lake" and "Tunica" as places. And did you forget your Arkansas river crossings?

Post-September (I can't remember going anywhere of note before that):

D.C.
Philadelphia
Asbury Park
Boston
Chicago
Milwaukee
Detroit
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Memphis
Holly Springs, MS
Oxford, MS
Clarksdale, MS
London
Brighton
Dublin

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 December 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

London (1)
Farnborough (2)
Dagenham (2)
Kings Lynn (3)
Bilbao (8)
Aldershot (2)
New York (4)
Shrewsbury (2)
Exeter (2) (5)
Glastonbury (Pilton, obv.)
Durham (6)
Nottingham (7)
Woking (2)
Windermere (9)
Oxford (2)
Gravesend (2)
Coventry (10)
Stevenage (2)

(1) Live here, innit
(2) still, watching exeter city gets you out and about
(3) sometimes to places where there isn't even a football match on
(4) chris and vicky's wedding
(5) it's just like watching brazil etc
(6) mooomie
(7) another stag do
(8) oops, forgot about chris' stag do
(9) wedding related to other stag do
(10) having a glamourous job like mine gets you to all sorts of places

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, scratch moon lake and tunica

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Bilbao
New York
Buffalo
Niagara Falls US
Chicago
Long Island
Brighton
Glastonbury
Oxford
Epping
Crystal Palace
Amsterdam
Beckton
Birmingham

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot Baltimore, MD! My favorite American city.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost every town in the west of scotland
Most of tenerife
Couple of places in central/southern scotland
Haven't really ventured to the east coast of scotland

― Rumpty Pum pum pum, Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I should have gone to LA

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Furthest points

west: uxbridge
east: holborn
south: chessington
north: wembley

Obligatory post.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

London, England
Barcelona, Spain
Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
South Bend, IN
Fort Wayne, IN
Sacramento, CA
Monterey Peninsula, CA
Yosemite, CA
Bodega/Monte Rio/Sonoma, CA

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, there's still time. Less places I go, more places I have left to go.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

2004, where did you go?

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Clever use of a comma, well done.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

London, Brighton, Poole, Manchester, Buxton, New York, a field near Chelmsford, Malaga, Ronda, Seville, a hill near Worthing.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Home
Paris
Provence
London
Oxford
Venice
Padua
other parts of Italy

I think that's it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot Milton Keynes.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost went to Dagenham, but only made it as far as West Ham.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to make a joke using those names, maybe something about ham acting? mary, can you help me?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

London (where I live)
Canterbury (where I once lived)
Brighton (ILX RoadFAP. I won a brightly coloured fish on the pier that drew comment this very morning)
Glastonbury (well, Pilton really)
Roskilde (with Colette, as part of the ongoing fortnight of rock, mud and pain that began with Glastonbury)
Copenhagen (the somewhat civilised ending to the aforementioned fortnight)
Paris (with my family, and a couple of expat friends)

And I think that's it. Its surprising how little time I've spent outside London this year.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to make a joke using those names, maybe something about ham acting?

it would be easier to make a joke about mumbling

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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