Your first time overseas
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I was 2 months old when my dad got posted in Germany, my brother was born there and we came back to Canada when I was 4 years old. After that, my dad was posted in Algiers when I was 12, came back at 14. On that second time, I had the chance to visit London, Geneva, Zurich and Paris (plus some cities in Algeria).0
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4 years old. Clark Air Force Base Philippines.
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Quite a few people have read it wrongly.
How old were you the first time you travelled overseas without your parents?
Not oh I was a baby when my parents were posted to PNG.
My parents sent me overseas before they had travelled abroad themselves. All credit to them.
My mother never left Australia.0 -
I've never gone overseas without my parents. Even as an adult. Hint: Don't travel overseas with your husband, parents and sister when you are in your 40s. Don't!
Age 12 --- Traveled to Israel and then The Netherlands. My dad had meetings with his publisher.
Age 15 --- Traveled to England (sidetrips to Scotland and Wales). My dad was on Sabbatical, teaching in Manchester.
Age 18 --- Traveled to England and France.
Age 20 --- Traveled to England and The Netherlands. My dad was presenting at a convention.
Age 22 --- Traveled to Israel.
Age 42 --- Traveled to Israel.
And of course, there have been many many drives to Canada and Mexico.0 -
Canada/Mexico don't count. (was in canada without parents around 16)
I traveled to London in my mid 20's for work for a few weeks. Was fun, but work trip so seen the major sites but not all the little things.0 -
Think I was 11 when we first went to Spain
Since then been around around Europe0 -
I traveled overseas the poor man's way and joined the Navy. Probably saw and did ten times more than the average vacationer.0
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I was still in my mom's belly! :P0
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the first time going solo was last year, so 26 and to South Africa by myself for a business trip0
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I was 22 and my first location was Diego Garcia, which is BIOT and I went on from there. It was love0
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I've never gone overseas without my parents. Even as an adult. Hint: Don't travel overseas with your husband, parents and sister when you are in your 40s. Don't!
Age 12 --- Traveled to Israel and then The Netherlands. My dad had meetings with his publisher.
Age 15 --- Traveled to England (sidetrips to Scotland and Wales). My dad was on Sabbatical, teaching in Manchester.
Age 18 --- Traveled to England and France.
Age 20 --- Traveled to England and The Netherlands. My dad was presenting at a convention.
Age 22 --- Traveled to Israel.
Age 42 --- Traveled to Israel.
And of course, there have been many many drives to Canada and Mexico.
Crikey.
Australia is lovely from October on. So are New Zealand and southern Africa.
Wrestle your passport from their clutches and GO!0 -
I was 18. London, UK. Studies. Best 4 years of my life!0
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30. My family didn't travel. I never even went to summer camp as a kid.0
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How old were you the first time you travelled abroad without your family? I was 16, my husband had graduated so 21yo+, my daughter went on a school trip at 17.
We are just about to send our 11yo off to Japan for 2 weeks and the jitters are starting. Ours, not his!
Travelling abroad WITHOUT family? I was 23 and heading on my first deployment to the Middle East. I did a lot of travelling aborad before that, but I was either with my whole family or, at the least, my brother.
If you'll accept the first time I traveled abroad without parental supervision, then it would be when I was 11 and my brother and I went on Boy Scout trips around Europe.0 -
Our Firstborn was 7months old when we took him to Germany the first time.
He was 6years old when he went by himself the first time, Lufthansa does a great job taking care of unaccompanied minors (Charlotte, NC to Dresden)
That child is now 12 years old, on his third passport, his fifth trip by himself and in Germany with my parents as I type this. This time around he went through Toronto and Frankfurt, Air Canada does not do UM, I was very very nervous ... but the son is a seasoned pro by now ...0 -
I don't count school trips for this.
First time truly alone.....I was 14 and went from London to the French Alps by train, boat and plane on my own.0 -
How old were you the first time you travelled abroad without your family? I was 16, my husband had graduated so 21yo+, my daughter went on a school trip at 17.
We are just about to send our 11yo off to Japan for 2 weeks and the jitters are starting. Ours, not his!
Travelling abroad WITHOUT family? I was 23 and heading on my first deployment to the Middle East. I did a lot of travelling aborad before that, but I was either with my whole family or, at the least, my brother.
If you'll accept the first time I traveled abroad without parental supervision, then it would be when I was 11 and my brother and I went on Boy Scout trips around Europe.
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That sounds equivalent. Our eleven year old is off on a school trip.
Thank you, by the way, to all the posters in the services, and to the children of services families.0 -
I didn't make it out the U.S. until graduate school. My family never had the money to travel abroad. We didn't even have vacations within the US.0
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I'm from Canada. My family and friends seem to think traveling alone is super weird and dangerous.
The first time I traveled out of the country without family was in grades 7 and 8, we went to Boston and New York City with our teachers.
The first time I traveled without adult supervision was backpacking Mexico with some random person I met on Craigslist. I was 22, she was 17 (she lied and told me she was 19).
The first time I traveled completely alone I was 23. I backpacked across South America for several months, all by myself.0 -
I was 18 and went to Germany to nanny for my 2 nieces. I traveled alone and navigating the Paris, Amsterdam and Munich airports by myself was a little intimidating. I was a cute 18 year old so I had plenty of help.0
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