Friday Five: Travel

Haven't done a Friday Five in ages, so I thought I'd wrap up this week with another one. Plus, being only halfway through NaBloPoMo, I'm starting to run out of steam a little, so I'll gladly use all the help I can get!

1. Have you ever left the country you live in and where?
2. What countries would you visit if time and money were not problems?
3. Out of all the foreign food you've tried, which is your favorite and why?
4. Can you name all 7 continents?
5. Which continent are you least likely to ever want to see and why?

1. This question's kind of ambiguous. If it's asking if I've ever simply *traveled* outside the US, then yes, several times. And if it's asking if I've ever *lived* outside the US, then also yes, from 1998-2001. I was stationed in Mannheim, Germany with the U.S. Army. I lived on post, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Loved the food and loved the culture!

2. I've already visited a handful of European countries while living in Germany, but regret missing a few, like Greece. I'd love to go there someday, see all the ancient structures. Also Israel, visit the Holy Land. Australia's also on the list. And of course, you can never go wrong with the tropics of the Caribbean ;-)

3. Well, I'm a die-hard fan of German food, but I'm not sure that really counts as anything I've "tried", since I was born in Germany and then spent time there after college. So I'd have to say it's a tossup between French food and Indonesian food. Which I find interesting, because I'm not normally a fan of Asian cuisine (usually too spicy), but Indonesian food is actually pretty good.

4. North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. (I'm embarrassed to admit that I had to think for a few seconds to not only come up with the last one, but to spell it correctly :-P)

5. Probably Asia. Visiting Indonesia in 2008 pretty much killed off any desire to visit places where human rights (and, by extension, animal treatment) are so abysmal. I don't think I would enjoy the sights very much when surrounded by extreme poverty and general indifference to your fellow man's situation.

How about you?