Your longest uninterrupted trip
 

This is a World question, not a USA question.

What is the longest time you have travelled without interruption? For the purposes of the question, 'uninterrupted' is defined as not stopping anywhere for more than 3 months. It allows for a few months spent following the grape harvest in France or picking fruit in Australia for example. Beyond 3 months I think it is reasonable to say you are no longer travelling but instead are living in a place. Hence the cut off at 3 months.

The one we're on now--left home July 29 for Ireland and Northern Ireland, will get home Sept 2.

I travelled solo to 26 states and Canada for 6 months. The longest stay was in Detroit for 6 weeks where I worked a temp job to make money for the rest of the trip. I was 26 and loved it.

Several between 2 and 3 weeks. Most of our trips now are 4 to 5 days a few times a year. We use to do just one vacation a year.

Thirteen and a half weeks traveling through England and Europe when I was 21. Long ago and far away!

My first trip to Europe eons ago - 8 weeks of visiting all the places I'd dreamed of seeing all my life.

The editors killed his European post with the same title.

Glad they did.

The thing I don’t get is that they killed the European thread around mid-night, New York time. I wonder who has their finger on the yellow triangle of doom at that time.

Hey wasn't me, I'd rather see things stand so everyone can read the personal slams and mr superiority attitude.

On the other hand, this thread with the same question's got nothing going on.

Brilliant observation suze. Now why do you suppose it has nothing going on? Not enough readers on the USA sub-forum? Or not enough people who have done any lengthy travel beyond the 2 week annual vacation? LOL

Tell me Peter_S, disregarding any personal feelings you might have on the content of the post, do you actually think there was anything that warranted deleting it? Are you comfortable with such heavy censorship of what is written? It may have caused some controversy, but did anything in it actually contravene the terms of use and warrant deleting the entire post? What did it threaten other than the status quo?

Now consider this Peter_S. On some posts I have been more than rude even by my own standards. On many threads I have more than annoyed some regulars including yourself. I've done it consistently according to people like suze. (Who conveniently ignores those posts where I have simply given an answer to a specific travel question.) Is it not beyond belief that I have not yet been banned from the Forum? Have I not taken enough rope to hang myself yet?

So some of my more pointed comments get removed and posts I start that become controversial get deleted completely, yet I don't get banned. WHY?

I'm off travelling on Thursday, my time here will end. Things will go back to 'normal'. Sad isn't it.

< Sad isn't it.>

not really

<<yet I don't get banned. WHY?>>

Because just being obnoxious doesn't break any forum posting guidelines.

"Now why do you suppose it has nothing going on? "

Because enough of us are boycotting this poster (I'm not addressing him directly).

I think us 'middle-aged women' should boycott him too...wait I have to go to the shopping mall now, I'll post more 'inane' comments later!

"toddle"... toddle off to the shopping mall, michele_d!

thanks suze...toddle...must remember that.

"I have to toddle off to the shopping mall now".

Is it Thursday yet???

What has been making me laugh is our friend is a LOT older than "middle aged" himself.

Because when I talked about slightly off the beaten path travel I did in the early 70's to Negril... his answer was, oh that's nothing, you aren't ahead of the curve, you should have been there in the 50's.

To which I explained my Mom wouldn't let me go to Jamaica alone when I was in kindergarten! That's my favorite story from this poster (it was deleted).

Of course suze, your point is based on the idea that Improv is actually truthful. We have no reason to assume that s/he is any such thing.

Why would someone pretend to be an old man?

Why would anyone choose to be obnoxious?

It comes naturally for some people.

LOL> suze.

If he was traveling to Jamaica in the 1950s, he must be an octogenarian by now.

My thoughts exactly. But he never actually said he was in Jamaica. Just that I was 'too late' to be cool.

Umm, saying you would have had to be in Negril in the 50s refers to the tourism curve of Jamaica, not my age.

What I wrote was, 'to be ahead of the curve, you would have had to have been there in the 50s.' DUHHHH

Is English not your first language suze? That would explain it.

As for 'middle aged', that's just my polite way of saying 'old women'. Now let me explain that to you too suze. An 'old woman' is about how you think and act, not necessarily your chronological age. Do you need 'chronological' explained too?

So you've never been to Negril?

Improvisor -- You are no gentleman, and your travels have brought you no wisdom.

"The thing I don’t get is that they killed the European thread around mid-night, New York time. I wonder who has their finger on the yellow triangle of doom at that time." Peter_S_Aus

I have the job of deleting what needs to go for another forum. I do my last pass through the site at 9 or 10 west coast time which is, obviously, 12 or 1am east coast time. I suspect something of the sort happens here too. In case that was a real question.

Thanks MmePerdu, and itvwas a real question. My sympathies to whoever has to moderate this forum at mid-night.

The “Longest uninterrupted trip” thread on the Europe forum was pulled, but certainly not at my instigation. I’d written a bit about how Fodor’s forums seem to operate, how we are a group drawn together by a common interest – travel – even though there are some members who do not travel at all. I commented on how various threads in the Lounge can be supportive, joyous, sometimes achingly desperate, and sometimes totally trivial. I posted that an hour or so before the thread was pulled.

I commented that that is how a village operates, neighbours sharing news and opinions, helping one another, people gathered around the village well. I commented that I’d written a description of a military funeral that I had attended, a piece noting the centenary of my mother’s birth.

I had also added a description, written by a poster on the Thorntree forum, of how he had hired a gondola for a couple of hours, how he had carefully selected the gondola driver based on cheerfulness, humour and knowledge. It was hilarious. Maybe the author of that post on Thorntree asked that the thread be pulled.

Armchair traveler AND a troll, to boot.

I really enjoyed the village post, Peter. It was sweet. And true.

The gondola story sounds priceless, but the 3-compass one is the funniest thing I've read here in a long time.

So this poster isn't 80 years old?

LOL he hasn't actually said that. Sounds more like your typical baby boomer who traveled around Europe in the late 60's early 70's. So he's probably more likely 70.

Hope he goes away soon.

<So he's probably more likely 70.>

Then why's he calling us "old"?

I think he was born in 1946, but that's just a guess. He has posted 3271 times on Thorntree / Lonely Planet in the space of two years. He went to Venice. He hired a gondola. The gondola was likely devoid of compasses. He had tea at Harry's. He described the experience thus on Thorntree:

I find it sad that you have such a cynical attitude towards a gondola ride [name redacted by Peter_S_Aus]

The last time we were in Venice I hired a gondola for a couple of hours. I took the time to pick my gondolier carefully looking for cheerfulness, humour and knowledge. I then arranged for him to pick my wife and I up at our hotel just before sunset. http://www.google.ca/search?q=veneti...w=1280&bih=695

He then took us out onto the lagoon to see the sunset. Then he wove in and out smaller canals telling us about buildings, history, people and humourous stories. As it got darker and the lights all started coming on, the canals sparkled, the buildings looked as they had centuries ago, you could imagine you were back in time. I had arranged for him to drop us of in front of Harry's Bar where we were going to have dinner. As he took us the last few hundred meters he began to sing. I had not asked, he was not being paid extra. My wife and I have never told anyone what he sang. It's ours and not to be shared with others.

http://www.harrysbarvenezia.com/ "

OMG! he's married????

He has been married twice.

Well I guess that makes sense.

The bit I love is your detective work where he posts here denigrating someone for using a money belt . . . Just too TOO pleb/common/middle class and that he has never ever used one

. . . and you found his post over on Throntree where he says he always uses a money belt when traveling in dodgy areas.

LOL very good sleuthing Peter but perhaps he reported you for stalking.

Yeah, he referred to his wife in one of the posts and my first thought was, poor poor woman. I wonder if she is aware of his totally lack of respect for the women on this forum.

Is it Thursday yet???