How worried should we be?
First I don't want this to get into a political issue!! We don't camp south of the border. The last time we considered it was quite a few years ago. We were lost and got into an area in Syracuse ...
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loulou57 wrote:John&Joey wrote:
LouLou57,
Just wondering, are you also concern about traveling to places like Mexico, Europe, Asia or only in the USA?
Mexico, South America, Jamaica, Middle East no! I went to the Bahamas and local Islands but can't convince myself to go back or to Cuba or the Dominican.
It is not only the USA. It is just we seem to hear a lot more of guns in the US.
I can travel to England, Scotland, France no issues. I would like to go to Switzerland and Denmark.
Hopefully the more people I meet in person it will get better.
Honestly, it sounds like you have a fear of traveling more then a fear of the US. As we age it gets harder and harder to leave our comfort zone. If traveling wasn't part of your life prior, it's to be expected it would be hard to enter into it now.
Canada and the US has had a long standing history of cooperation. I have always lived within 150 miles of the boarder in various states. The two cultures to me are really just one. Now that I snowbird and bump into many Canadians I am amazed at how they isolate themselves from the rest. They group together and when they sit around the campfire it is full of how bad the US customs are, the need for guns, or how bad the US is vs Canada.
I'm sorry to say, but I think your country is becoming very isolated from the rest of the world. Separatism is even something that is a reality for your country.
When you travel you must embrace that location, both the good and the bad. If you want to expand your horizons, then you must leave your boarders. As I tell the grandkids, the hardest part of any voyage is untying the dock lines.
Good luck.
