1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?

The last vacation I took was to Maine with Mike for my Birthday. I'm fairly certain Maine will always be my favorite place to travel to.

The last time I traveled out of the country was when I went to Canada when I was 15. I think that was WAY too long ago. Perhaps it's time for another vacation outside the United States. Amsterdam, here I come!

2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?

When I was ten, my parents took me to Washington, D.C. to take in a bit of our nation's proud history. Vacation was going smoothly enough until I set off the security alarms at the FBI building. When we entered the building and I walked through the metal detector, it started beeping. I had to step off to the side so some big scary woman could scan me with a metal-detecting wand. After removing all of my 25-cent machine jewlelry and craft store trinket earrings, the wand still detected metal. By now my parents and I were being asked twenty questions and six security guards stood around me in a circle, staring suspiciously with hands near their weapons, as if a ten year old girl would suddenly draw a weapon and start shooting. My parents were standing there like, "OH. MY. GOD." Finally, after about ten minutes, the scary woman with the wand had narrowed down the source of the beeping to my feet. Sure enough, my 1980's blue denim tennis shoes with pink laces had rhinestones and pink and blue safety pins on them as decoration. Upon removing the safety pins from my shoes, the wand quit its high-pitched beeping and the six suspicious security guards relaxed and went back to their cups of coffee and potato chips. My all-too-cool 1980's safety pins were "temporarily held" until I left the building.

3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?

If I could go anywhere, I think I would choose to travel to Italy. There seems to be so much history there, along with spectacular art and architecture which I love. I'd want to see all the major cities and end my trip with a romantic evening gondola ride in Venice.

4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?

I don't know that long distance travel by train is all that popular, but I would prefer to travel by train. I mean, planes just scare me. It's not really the plane itself or the speed or the fact that if the plane crashes, chances are I'm dead and fucked. It's the altitude. I have a fear of altitude. I read a story once where some guy was affected by the altitude on a plane trip. He flipped out and started threatening everyone with knives and saying he felt like his head was going to explode. For some reason, I'm immensely afraid of being on a plane and not being able to breathe or having some random blood vessel pop somewhere inside me, and I can't breathe and I'm bleeding to death and I don't even know it until it's too late.

Is this an irrational fear? ABSOLUTELY. But it's still a fear. I'm still afraid.

Although I always travel by car (unless I'm going into Manhattan), car travel scares me the most. There are so many assholes out on the road who drive like maniacs or just don't pay any goddamned attention to where they are going. Other drivers scare the living fuck out of me. When I drive, I silently wish that everyone else on the road would just go away and give me the whole road to myself, only so I can feel safe. I never feel safe in cars...never ever.

But trains...I've read stories, seen videos and looked at pictures of some of the most horrible train wrecks in history. It didn't scare me. Deep down, I feel that trains are the safest form of travel available. Plus, you don't have to worry about following directions or other cars on the road. You just sit back and enjoy watching the scenery pass by.

5. What's the next place on your list to visit?

Alabama. Yeah.

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