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#22 · (Edited)
Besides Canada I can’t think of any countries I’m stoked on riding…In just a few minutes I’m getting in the car to go to St George Utah. I also really like riding in Bellingham and Squamish/Whistler, and we have a trip to NW Arkansas planned for this spring (more so because it’s close to family than the riding).

I guess New Zealand, Oaxaca Mexico, and Spain could hold some appeal…but I think I’d rather surf or Rock climb than Mtn Bike…but maybe I’m just bored with biking these days unless the trails are close to my limit mentally.
 
Discussion starter · #23 ·
ocnLogan said:
I'm sure a lot of people will laugh at this.

I'm kind of of the opinion that this country (USA) is so large, and I haven't explored it until I'm bored with it so far. So why bother to go outside of it (also, I don't really enjoy traveling).

That said, this past summer I did leave the country for the first time.

And... it was to go mountain biking with some buddies. I went a shocking few hours north into BC. We hit the North Shore one day, and Coast Gravity Park in Seshelt for two days.

We had a good time, and generally behaved ourselves. Or, at least behaved like we did when we were ~15 (I've been best friends with one of them for 29 years, and friends with the other for 23 years).

Strangely... I think Delta Watershed was our favorite place that we hit in Vancouver. I think those trails were a perfect warmup, and as most of us are newerish riders (2-5 years for us each now), and they were that goldilocks difficulty of "just about right" for our then selves.

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Coast Gravity Park was great. It did take the better part of a day to warm up to it though. I was glad we did two days there.

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The old obligitory jump ya mate game.... its got to be done!
 
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I kind of feel sorry for the guys that don't want to leave their country particularly the Americans. I'm sure there's pockets of nice places to be in the US. But man, there is a whole world out there that is freaken awesome. Many first world countries that are safer, less angry and generally nicer places to be.
 
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plummet said:
I kind of feel sorry for the guys that don't want to leave their country particularly the Americans. I'm sure there's pockets of nice places to be in the US. But man, there is a whole world out there that is freaken awesome. Many first world countries that are safer, less angry and generally nicer places to be.
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I can watch the entire world from my computer desk and I can even enjoy a beer while Im doing. Im a road tripper by nature. If I cant get there by car, it aint gonna happen. No flying for me. If I was meant to fly, Id have wings.
 
#26 ·
Barnaby’sdad said:
There’s a whole world out there with a lot of neat stuff to see and people to interact with that a lot of Americans never will, because…for one reason or another…we’re too afraid to get out there and experience new things.

That and it goes a long way toward explaining why a lot of folks in the U.S. have zero ability to look at things from any perspective other than their own (that which is presented by their preferred talking heads).
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So true.
 
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SnakeCharmer said:
I can watch the entire world from my computer desk and I can even enjoy a beer while Im doing. Im a road tripper by nature. If I cant get there by car, it aint gonna happen. No flying for me. If I was meant to fly, Id have wings.
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Sad, Imagine what you are missing out on.

I'm not suggesting international trips all the time. In truth, this my section international mtb trip.

International trips just take that holiday to the next level.
 
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SnakeCharmer said:
I can watch the entire world from my computer desk and I can even enjoy a beer while Im doing. Im a road tripper by nature. If I cant get there by car, it aint gonna happen. No flying for me. If I was meant to fly, Id have wings.
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It’s a bit different getting to see it in person, but to each his own.

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plummet said:
I kind of feel sorry for the guys that don't want to leave their country particularly the Americans. I'm sure there's pockets of nice places to be in the US. But man, there is a whole world out there that is freaken awesome. Many first world countries that are safer, less angry and generally nicer places to be.
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Abso-frikkin-lutely.

We live on a small island in the middle of a bay in the smallest state, and when we first moved here ('84) some of the locals boasted that they had never left the state, some reckoned they had never left the island.

Kind of sad, really.
 
#33 ·
saildesign said:
Abso-frikkin-lutely.

We live on a small island in the middle of a bay in the smallest state, and when we first moved here ('84) some of the locals boasted that they had never left the state, some reckoned they had never left the island.

Kind of sad, really.
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I’ve lived in areas of the USA where people have barely ever their county (I won’t name specifics because I know some guys on here will get all upset) and those folks were just ignorant AF.
 
#34 ·
plummet said:
Sad, Imagine what you are missing out on.

I'm not suggesting international trips all the time. In truth, this my section international mtb trip.

International trips just take that holiday to the next level.
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Nope. I'm almost 60 and I am winding down. I can see the end of cycling for me on the distant horizon ahead. My adventurous days are over. But I'm more than happy to read about your adventures and those from others. Dammit, I just ran out of Geritol! :mad:
 
#37 ·
The party starts the second I enter the airport. I'm lucky to live on the west coast and have access to many destination rides. But I love meeting strange people from foreign countries, drinking with them and hearing their stories, and picking up local knowledge and history. There's this one rural pub in the middle of nowhere Ireland. LO effing L.
 
#39 ·
plummet said:
Sad, Imagine what you are missing out on.

I'm not suggesting international trips all the time. In truth, this my section international mtb trip.

International trips just take that holiday to the next level.
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The pro-USA propaganda here is never ending and only getting worse. So many people that never go more than a couple hours away from home in a place this big is mind boggling, much less to actually get out of the country. I’m so embarrassed by so many of us I’m glad we don’t travel that much…
 
#40 ·
Canada. Why go anywhere else to ride when it’s the best in the world?

Also, I can be in BC in about 6 hours, so…😉

Someday I want to get back to Europe to ride though…
 
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