Zubis said: It's become a pain in the ass to engage in international travel (cost, passports, visas, travel advisories, customs, etc) compared to travel with the US That goes both ways by the way, entering the US isn't exactly a pleasant experience. I'm surprised people here haven't travelled much; I always thought we were a worldly bunch but there's frankly a lot of odd preconceptions in this thread.
It's become a pain in the ass to engage in international travel (cost, passports, visas, travel advisories, customs, etc) compared to travel with the US
Zubis said: It's become a pain in the ass to engage in international travel (cost, passports, visas, travel advisories, customs, etc) compared to travel with the US That goes both ways by the way, entering the US isn't exactly a pleasant experience. I'm surprised people here haven't travelled much; I always thought we were a worldly bunch but there's frankly a lot of odd preconceptions in this thread. Travel when you're young and you can. It's not the same doing a package tour as a 45 year old with two kids in tow. Oh, one recommendation? Keep your voice down. Americans have a reputation for being loud oversea. This is not a mark on your character merely an observation.
Mavilu said: Oh, I was detained once, in Kennedy Airport; I was aked questions very rudely, my things were taken, that includes my wallet, I was put into a room with glass walls, so people arriving could see me in my shame, I was denied a phone call to my husband, I was denied an explanation of what was wrong and I was denied a trip to the bathroom (that made the guard that offered to take me to the bathroom call the INS woman that started it all a certain name that rhymes with itch); I was there for two hours before someone came to take me to an INS supervisor, he was pretty nice and explained that I didn't seem to have a return ticket (back then, argentinians could come here if we had a working passport and a return ticket within 90 days of arrival), well, you can imagine, how I explained that I wasn't about to come all the way here and try to pas through without one of the two things required of me, especially, since coming here ain't all that cheap and back then american airline companies absolutely refused to sell you an entry ticket without making you buy a returning one and losing it or getting it stolen...where, in the actual airplane? and it being attached to the booklet, booklet that I still had?. Well, it turned out that this stupid INS woman failed to see my return ticket and instead of double checking, she instantly assumed I was this horrible criminal trying to entry the country (I don't look like a criminal, now, do I?) and started treating me like one. They let me go, gave me my things and sent me on my way. There's few people I really dislike in this world, that one INS lady? is one of them. But since I started my papers to live here legally?, it has been nothing but pleasantries.
