What's your travel quotient?

[AssKissinger]

I just thought of a scientific way to determine how well travelled you are.
Multiply the number of countries you've been in (as a tourist or anything including your home country) by the number of years you've lived over seas (if number is zero add one) by the number of countries you've actually lived in (not just tourism, including home country).

For example AssKissinger's Stats: Been to countires=13 Years Over Seas=7 Lived in Countries=3
13x7x3=273

My TQ (travel quotient) is 273

[GomiGirl]

Fun quiz.. did you just make this up?

GG's TQ = 32 x 6 x 3 = 576

I guess this is a bit skewed as when you have done a grandtour of Europe you can travel through 10 countries in 5 days. Plus I have travelled all my life with a very nomadic family.

Wierdest place would have to be Papua New Guinea..

[AssKissinger]

Fun quiz.. did you just make this up?

Yes I did. Thank-you. But I didn't think the first person to come around would be able whip me like that. You've only lived six years over seas?

[Taro Toporific]

Multiply the number of countries you've been in (as a tourist or anything including your home country) by the number of years you've lived over seas (if number is zero add one) by the number of countries you've actually lived in (not just tourism, including home country).

Been to countries= >52
Years Overseas= >25
Lived in Countries= 4

DIVIDED BY THE YEARS I'VE BEEN ALIVE = 100

[GomiGirl]

Fun quiz.. did you just make this up?

Yes I did. Thank-you. But I didn't think the first person to come around would be able whip me like that. You've only lived six years over seas?

Depends which country I decide to call home. If I use my British citizenship the number blows right out to 26 years overseas.

I have lived lots of places here and there for various lengths of time. But 6 years is the length of time I have had my own apartment/house in another country. I think that should be the rule.

My brother has lived overseas for close to 19 years - longer than he has lived in any other country. I think we can safely call him a migrant - except in the eyes of the Japanese immigration department.

[ramchop]

Do/did Hong Kong and Macau (and Taiwan for that matter) count as countries? How about Scotland?

Counting all the above I'm a 20 x 4 x 3 = 240

Bring in the Taro denominator and I get beaten by the FG 3 yr old.

[GomiGirl]

Do/did Hong Kong and Macau (and Taiwan for that matter) count as countries? How about Scotland?

Oops, I forgot about Macau... (add one more for me) HK and Macau I would call them different countries as they were not part of China when I visited them the first time but they are called the one country two systems now. Taiwan is definitely a separate country.

Scotland is part of the UK - so just one country can be counted.. you don't need your passport (but you need your vaccinations - jokes) to cross into Scotland but you do when you go to Macau or Shenzen from HK.. Ireland is a separate country but Northern Ireland isn't. Wales is part of the UK as well.

[ramchop]

you don't need your passport ... to cross into Scotland

When was the last time you went to Europe? My passport was only looked at twice when I was there (and this was 3 days after Sept 11)

[GomiGirl]

you don't need your passport ... to cross into Scotland

When was the last time you went to Europe? My passport was only looked at twice when I was there (and this was 3 days after Sept 11)

I was there last year (I think).. or was it the year before. I was in the UK and Italy in October 2001 and then to Scotland, London and Devon in July 2002 and I think I have been since then but it was a really quick visit just for meetings and not for visiting family/friends.

They never stamp through EEC countries much anymore if you have an EEC passport, but they do look at them.

[mr. sparkle]

i urge you to change the name of this test!

AK, your test really should actually be called:
"the ex-pat quotient"
not da "travel quotient."
dontcha think?

the travel quotient should be easily determined
by my rules. may i present them to ya'll?

mr. sparkle's travel quotient
how many countries you've been to
times the states in the U. S. of A. you've set foot on
plus the punk/indie rock bands you've seen in other countries
divided by the amount of times you puked in other countries

25 X 40 + 12 /2 = 506

[ramchop]

Countries that you can drive/walk to from your country of residence should not be included in any equation (and I include the polar ice cap as something that can be traversed on foot) :P

[AssKissinger]

Do/did Hong Kong and Macau (and Taiwan for that matter) count as countries? How about Scotland?

Oops, I forgot about Macau... (add one more for me) HK and Macau I would call them different countries as they were not part of China when I visited them the first time but they are called the one country two systems now. Taiwan is definitely a separate country.

Scotland is part of the UK - so just one country can be counted.. you don't need your passport (but you need your vaccinations - jokes) to cross into Scotland but you do when you go to Macau or Shenzen from HK.. Ireland is a separate country but Northern Ireland isn't. Wales is part of the UK as well.

But if you went to Hong Kong before it was a part of China then it was a part of the UK, wasn't it?

divided by the amount of times you puked in other countries

25 X 40 + 12 /2 = 506

You've only ralphed twice overseas?

[Dynamic Jointmeister]

22x2x2:88.......A low Rate!
More After This summer!hehe!

[gpvillamil]

Been to countries = 35
Years overseas = 21
Lived in countries = 9 (Japan, Hong Kong, India, UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Brazil, US)

TQ = 6615

Divided by my age (40) = 165.35

I thought I had been to more than 35, maybe I'm forgetting some?

[Taro Toporific]

Been to countries = 35
Years overseas = 21
Lived in countries = 9 (Japan, Hong Kong, India, UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Brazil, US)
TQ = 6615
Divided by my age (40) = 165.35
I thought I had been to more than 35, maybe I'm forgetting some?

I think ought to extra points for GREAT photos taken like your k-cool avatar.

[kamome]

Been to countries = 35
Years overseas = 21
Lived in countries = 9 (Japan, Hong Kong, India, UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Brazil, US)

TQ = 6615

Divided by my age (40) = 165.35

I thought I had been to more than 35, maybe I'm forgetting some?

Wow, you have had one hell of an interesting life! I thought living in Japan alone was enough to be considered well-traveled. 35 countries and 21 years abroad must change one's perspective on a lot of things.

I feel sorry for people who never leave their provincial hometowns and travel. They miss out on so much and get stuck in a certain mode of thinking.

[GomiGirl]

So far gpvillamil is the king followed by the ever genki Taro-sama..

We haven't heard from our old-hand-in-japan Dr Stevie B. I bet he has a few stories to tell!! Hell, we even have web-cam proof of his recent sojourn to Venice Beach!!

I feel sorry for people who never leave their provincial hometowns and travel. They miss out on so much and get stuck in a certain mode of thinking.

Amen to that!!! Until you have been lost in a foreign city with no money and can't speak the language, you do not really know how strong and resourceful you really are and also the underlying qualities in basic human nature of random strangers of a different race, culture, religion. It changes your whole outlook on the world.

oh and p.s. people were talking about puking in other countries... my best puke story is from when I was 5 years old and my parents took me to see Buckingham Palace.. I puked on a Bobby's* foot - he still didn't blink!!

*Bobby = policeman - this one was in the sentry box outside the Palace gates. I had eaten a croissant for breakfast at the insistence of my mother and I didn't like it... It was my first ever croissant as in those days Australia was still quite provincial and things like pastries were not really available.

[Taro Toporific]

So far gpvillamil is the king followed by the ever genki Taro-sama.. .

Taro's Travel Tip:
Travel when young, sleep when old!

Always buy the Around-the-World fare for less than $2,000 rather than the mundane R/T ticket when traveling to any distant land. . I bagged 15+ countries on $399 fly-everywhere-Eastern-Airlines-goes-to fare. For almost no money, I traveled to more than 40 countries before the age of 26 using unlimited multi-stop tickets.

Now, let's hear Stevie B's tales of his 7-league boots and adventures in the jungles of Uganda.

Back to sleep...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[ramchop]

It was my first ever croissant as in those days Australia was still quite provincial and things like pastries were not really available.

Yes the good old backward days of bland colonial/English cuisine, I vaguely remember them (mince on toast anyone? ). And to think some sad misguided people still oppose immigration from "non-English" countries.

[CAkOS]

16x2x5 = 160

and if divide by my age I get 6.9 almost 7

traveling.... traveling .... (known song