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teep_
05/07/23 9:57:27 AM
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without stopping?

Because if so, within an hour I'll have visited Czechia for the first time

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lilORANG
05/07/23 9:57:50 AM
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Hell yeah. Congrats world traveler

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RyanWebb
05/07/23 9:58:37 AM
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Does it count as visiting Texas if I landed in Dallas and caught a connecting flight without leaving the airport?

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J03can
05/07/23 9:59:07 AM
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RyanWebb posted...
Does it count as visiting Texas if I landed in Dallas and caught a connecting flight without leaving the airport?
Yup

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RyanWebb
05/07/23 9:59:31 AM
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J03can posted...

Yup


Sweet.

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R1masher
05/07/23 10:01:17 AM
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Probably depends on if you want to argue semantics

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MrFingers07
05/07/23 10:01:57 AM
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I wouldn't

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Bad_Mojo
05/07/23 10:08:26 AM
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Did you visit your parents if you drove past their house?

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RyanWebb
05/07/23 10:09:13 AM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
Did you visit your parents if you drove past their house?


What if you drove through their house?

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Bad_Mojo
05/07/23 10:12:34 AM
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RyanWebb posted...
What if you drove through their house?

That would be leaving

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RyanWebb
05/07/23 10:15:51 AM
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Bad_Mojo posted...


That would be leaving


Which you means you were there, which means you visited. ^_^

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K181
05/07/23 10:19:18 AM
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If your vehicle is connected to the ground, then yes.

If flying over it, no.

Edit: and I'd say that boating down a border river counts, too.

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Bad_Mojo
05/07/23 10:19:57 AM
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RyanWebb posted...
Which you means you were there, which means you visited. ^_^

Can't argue that

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teep_
05/07/23 10:29:37 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/4/AAaQveAAEc--.jpg

itp: Czechia

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Glob
05/07/23 10:32:44 AM
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J03can posted...
Yup

In that case, Im going to Dubai soon. But not really.
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BurmesePenguin
05/07/23 11:20:14 AM
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I thought all Germans went to Czechslovakia to buy cheap commodities.
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Cobra1010
05/07/23 11:23:00 AM
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RyanWebb posted...
Does it count as visiting Texas if I landed in Dallas and caught a connecting flight without leaving the airport?

If talking about countries, to me airport's don't count unless you actually go through customs, border control. The parts of the airport where you connect flight, you are in international space.

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Sharashaska
05/07/23 11:32:25 AM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
I thought all Germans went to Czechslovakia to buy cheap commodities.
Hasn't been called that since 1993

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teep_
05/07/23 11:33:26 AM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
I thought all Germans went to Czechslovakia to buy cheap commodities.
The money I'd save in buying there, I'd more than lose through petrol

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Tyranthraxus
05/07/23 11:38:52 AM
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RyanWebb posted...
Does it count as visiting Texas if I landed in Dallas and caught a connecting flight without leaving the airport?
Yes. The Singapore Jewel Changi airport is literally a tourist attraction. People fly there just to visit the airport.

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SiO4
05/07/23 11:40:26 AM
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If you are on a train and seeing the county side, I would say, Yes.

Teep, side note: Can you make sense of this sign?

https://imgur.com/a/gZ7R2eU

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teep_
05/07/23 12:56:00 PM
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SiO4 posted...
Teep, side note: Can you make sense of this sign?

https://imgur.com/a/gZ7R2eU
It's a shop to rent floorboard polishing machines

Fussboden = floorboards
Schleifmaschine = polisher
Verleih = rental

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masticatingman
05/07/23 12:58:56 PM
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I did that with Luxembourg as a kid traveling in Western Europe.

It kinda counts, kinda not. Because you cant talk about it without the caveat of just passing thru on a train.

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HANGtheDJ_86
05/07/23 1:13:06 PM
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You have to pass gas into it for it to count

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hyperskate65
05/07/23 1:15:42 PM
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Mr. Worldwide

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scar_the_1
05/07/23 1:30:02 PM
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I wouldn't say that I've been to Czechia if I just passed through. Heck, even if I changed trains/planes there I wouldn't count it. But that's just me.

You should go there properly some time! They say "ahoy" as a greeting, it's funny.

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teep_
05/07/23 2:42:13 PM
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Tomorrow I might check out the tripoint where Germany, Poland and Czechia meet. It's a ~4 km walk from the hotel according to Google

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scar_the_1
05/07/23 3:53:12 PM
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What are you gonna do in Poland? Have bigos?

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teep_
05/08/23 6:26:50 AM
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I only have euros, so shopping opportunities would be limited

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averagejoel
05/08/23 7:22:58 AM
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I think in order to say you've "visited" you have to actually get off the train, leave the train station, and have some sort of experience. visit a museum, eat at a restaurant, go for a walk around the town. you need to do something when you're there

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BurmesePenguin
05/08/23 7:26:15 AM
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15 or so years ago I was on vacation in Turkey and during one of the days we took a boat ride to a Greek Island and spent an afternoon there, 4 hours or so.

I have a hard time saying I've visited Greece based on that, but I guess I have.
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MathMurderer
05/08/23 7:54:51 AM
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teep_ posted...
Tomorrow I might check out the tripoint where Germany, Poland and Czechia meet. It's a ~4 km walk from the hotel according to Google
Sounds like you're in Zittau. I visited that place in 2016 and remember being annoyed by the voices of the locals. Saxon = Joke dialect
teep_ posted...
I only have euros, so shopping opportunities would be limited
I'm pretty sure that most, if not all shops in the Polish and Czech border areas freely accept Euros.

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Supaitwo
05/08/23 7:57:58 AM
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Sharashaska posted...
Hasn't been called that since 1993

This @BurmesePenguin

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BurmesePenguin
05/08/23 8:00:31 AM
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Okay.

I will potentially remember that the next time I mention it, but probably not.
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Glob
05/08/23 8:00:50 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Yes. The Singapore Jewel Changi airport is literally a tourist attraction. People fly there just to visit the airport.

To be fair, its fucking amazing.
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teep_
05/08/23 9:20:38 AM
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MathMurderer posted...
Sounds like you're in Zittau. I visited that place in 2016 and remember being annoyed by the voices of the locals. Saxon = Joke dialect
MathDoxxxerer :p

MathMurderer posted...
I'm pretty sure that most, if not all shops in the Polish and Czech border areas freely accept Euros.
That's good to know!

First I need to figure out what to EAT for lunch

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scar_the_1
05/08/23 9:36:16 AM
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Nice, apparently my great great grandfather emigrated from Zittau to Sweden

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teep_
05/08/23 10:39:56 AM
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Ate some fried rice and set off. I've already made it past one border without all the things my racist dad told me would happen to me in Poland, so that's a plus


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teep_
05/08/23 10:55:16 AM
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There's not a thing on the floor saying where the border is, but Google Maps tells me I crossed the border into Czechia when I crossed a wooden bridge

I'll upload some pics once I get back, direct uploading doesn't seem to be working so I'll do it over imgur

e: have a discord link (that probably won't embed but whatever) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/824714499516530698/1105147061596344401/IMG_20230508_165301.jpg

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teep_
05/08/23 12:25:16 PM
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There's a public gathering/demonstration. They're shit-talking the Green Party and Fridays for Future >_>

e: and now they're talking about how energy efficiency is bad for building. I should leave lol

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teep_
05/08/23 12:35:02 PM
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Yeah, all they're doing is complaining about "those woke westies who don't care about the east"

I'm leaving

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