Right smack in the middle of Downtown Chicago.

Lived in Boston, Connecticut, and Atlanta (for about 6 to 7 years each) prior to meeting "the one" and moving to the Windy City.

Split our time between Orland Park Illinois (suburb of Chicago) and Bonita Springs, Florida now that we are retired.
Next trip: Croatia and Slovenia in Sept.

I live in the Shetland Islands - right up in the north of Scotland

Griffin, GA, just south of Atlanta. If you haven't been to the new aquarium, plan a trip soon!

Shetland Islands, carylspall, how interesting! Are you a native? If not, how did you end up there? And do you have a pony? (sorry, couldn't resist! ;-) )

Alexandria, Virginia (about seven miles outside of Washington, DC)

I moved since I last posted. I now live in Fort Lauderdale. Fl. Born In Harrisburg Pa, lived in Bethlehem Pa, Marlton NJ, Mahwah, NJ Atlanta, GA(my fave) Cape Coral fL, now FLL. Greetings to all my fellow Fodorites :-)!!!! Good to see so many international Fodorites!

love this!
ttt

live in gorgeous Tacoma, Washington, but was born and raised in Welland, Ontario, Canada.

Tacoma! I used to go to Enumclaw all the time. I'm going to Bonney Lake this summer but will stay in Olympia.

Olympia is wonderful. Much better than Enumclaw and Bonney Lake! there is a GREAT restaurant in Oly - - I just can't think of the name of it....grrrr....

Hey there fodorites...
I love this thread for many reasons but I think we can all learn from how this posting was done.
1. the opening post is positive and welcoming
2. The poster cigalechanta then monitored it, responded to some of the posters and encouraged different people to make contributions
3. Posters then responded in kind.

Indianapolis, Indiana.

However, I am an Aussie expat and hail from Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Liz
ozmum.com

Minneapolis, MN I've also lived in Ft. Lauderdale, FL for a short time.

Our next vacation is Croatia in Sept. We can't wait!

Interesting post. My husband and I were born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. At various times in our lives we lived only a few blocks from one another. We both moved out of Milwaukee to a smaller city (Waukesha) about 20 miles away about 20 years ago. We met because our teenage daughters thought we would be a good "hook-up" and cooked up a scheme to work it out! We fell in love almost immediately and have been together 11 years, married 9. Friends invited us on a trip overseas shortly after 9/11. We went and have been hooked on European adventures ever since! This site has been so very interesting and so helpful while planning. As all of you know, the planning part is almosting as much fun as the actual travel. We are in that high anticipation mode now, beautiful Italy is on our plate in a mere 53 days! Shirley PS See our site at
http://home.wi.rr.com/tomshirl/

I live in Norfolk, VA. My husband is in the US NAVY and I have had the good fortune to travel to Europe for the past four years due to his official business there. Fodor's Talk has given me more useful information that any guidebook ever could. We have been to England, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and France.

Thanks again to everyone how have given me great advice.

What a traveled crew we have here!! Me, not so much...

Live now....Huntsville, Alabama

Before now...University Place, Washington
Collierville, Tennessee,
Estes Park, Colorado
Atlanta, Georgia
Fayetteville, Georgia
McDonough, Georgia


Traveled to England, Scotland, British Colombia, and Quebec...hope to hit each continent with the exception of the antarctic.

Tara

Berkeley, California for the moment, but I'll be graduating in the next year and going wherever I get hired, which won't be the Bay Area.

I'm not really from anywhere, although if pressed I'll say I'm from Seattle, since that's the first place I got to choose to live, and it's where my son was born. I was born in Michigan while my mom was staying with her family while my dad was on an aircraft carrier. As a Navy brat, we moved far and often, including a stint overseas (the Philippines -- now <i>that</i> was an experience!). I attended six different schools in my first eight years of education. Unfortunately, this rolling stone hasn't been into gaining moss as an adult either, living in three different states and traveling to some twenty-odd foreign countries.

Thanks to growing up under a migration plan designed by Uncle Sam, I see myself pretty much as a citizen of the world.

Phoenix, Arizona where it is supposed to be 115 degrees tomorrow and we have heat advisorys out. Wish I was someplace cooler.

Chicago, Illinois for 41 years(actually 30 miles southwest) with a 2 year hiatis in Toronto.

Currently call Mechanicsburg, PA home. I've lived in New Jersey, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania!

Thanks to everyone here for you willingness to post and share. We are headed for our first Ireland trip and have found some valuable information!

For the last 36 years in a small town in the Berkshire Hills of Western Mass. (right on the New York border). Born in eastern Ma, college in Maine, spent one summer of college studying in Salzburg, Austria, taught school for two years in Ireland. esides, these experiences, traveled to Europe
15 times, Bermuda, Canada, 29 states.

I am a newbie and appreciate the welcome here and all the wonderful travel tales from so many of you. All the tales and info have me drooling for another trip, even though I am only back shortly from three weeks in the former Yugoslav republics. I think I must be (as Peg on the Road wrote recently) a few fries short of a happy meal.

Thanks for a wonderful opportunity to share and laugh together.

Happy travels, everyone!