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[jajdude]

To Tiger Beer and others who have travelled around so much:

What's it like for your state of mind sometimes? Do you ever feel disoriented or sometimes wake up confused about where you are?

Have you given up comparing things between one country and another, though you must notice price changes and many other things?

Do you have a strong craving for novelty, challenge and adventure, and travelling helps satisfy it?

Have you much of a desire to settle in one place, if you find the right place and situation, or are you content to continue to be in motion for a while? Does a year feel like a long time to stay still?

How do people react when you explain your life? I guess you have to simplify your explanation.

Just curious about this sort of life....

[Tiger Beer]

[peemil]

How many threads have you resurrected today Tiger Beer?

[JacktheCat]

Long time no see.

This was my very first post, after finally getting around to setting up an account at Dave's after almost two years of "eye shopping."

Brings back memories.

[eamo]

All this talk of traveling reminds me of a news story in Britain last year.

The anthropology or something department of an English University wanted to do a DNA survey of an area of South-western England. A small area. About 20 square miles.

Thay had recently unearthed the remains of human 9000 years dead in the area.

They took saliva swabs from everyone and checked the results with DNA from the skeleton.

Remarkably, there was an exact match father through son over hundreds of generations, to one local family living today.

Meaning members of that family had stayed in the exact same village for 9000 years.

Kind of the opposite of some posters here!!

[tzechuk]

Well.. let's see. I am Chinese by birth, British by nationality and Korean by marriage. I have lived in Hong Kong for some 12 years, the UK for some 11 years and Korea for some 4 years... What am I supposed to be?!

[kangnam mafioso]

you guys might be interested in a book called "the global soul," by pico iyer. he talks a lot about identity, globalism and not having a specific country. pretty good read. i think the author lives in japan now, was born in india, but grew up in california and england.

[guangho]

Hmmmm...broken down by the month eh?

November-December 1977- Forest Rd., Budapest (from birth)
January 1978-August 1988- Bartok Bela Rd., Budapest
August-October 1988- Willow Grove, PA
October 1988-February 1989- Rising Sun Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
March 1989-October 1989- Bala Cynwood, PA
November 1989-September 1993- have not clue, we went from school district to school district almost on a monthly basis
September 1993-August 1993- Cheltenham, PA
September 1994-August 1996- Danville, PA
September 1996-Agust 1997- Hazleton, PA
September 1997-January 1999- Memphis, TN (with side trips to McAlester, OK)
January 1999-June 1999- Nashville, TN
June 1999-August 1999- McAlester, OK
late August 1999-August 2001- New York, NY
September 2001-August 2002- Huntington, NY
September 2002-August 2004- New York, NY (with February/March 2003 in Rannanna, Israel)
September 2004-November 2004- Guangzhou, China
December 2004- Albany, NY
January 2005-now- Seoul

[tommynomad]

I've maintained for some time tha the world will be a much better place when the neo-nomads reach critical mass. Imagine an entire non-culture of people who see their passport as nothing more than a convenience. They'd owe allegiance not to a demarcation of territory, but to a set of ideals. I hope it's one that recognises that all people are free to self-define and move about this great planet as they see fit.

[tommynomad]

I've maintained for some time that the world will be a much better place when the neo-nomads reach critical mass. Imagine an entire non-culture of people who see their passport as nothing more than a convenience. They'd owe allegiance not to a demarcation of territory, but to a set of ideals. I hope it's one that recognises that all people are free to self-define and move about this great planet as they see fit.