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Cool place - Sicily.

Most frequent place - Brussels
Second most frequent place - Paris
Third most frequent place - Geneva

Interesting place - East Berlin pre-1989 and the Åland islands off Finland

Odd place - and which I wasn't crazy about: Minsk

Ah, the luxury of having someone paying for your trips...

Itaught US History, Govt. and Econ outside of the United States for 5 years. It was very rewarding.

For three years I taught in Mexico City and for two years in Damascus, Syria. That's right I taught US history in Damascuc. The Syrians would often ask what I was doing there and I would tell them "teaching US History."

They would respond with "What, are you done in 15 minutes?"

There are two major job fairs for international teaching in the United States. More info at http://www.iss.edu/

Given that I work for a non-profit that deals specifically with Chicago, I don't really get to travel. However, I did get to go to Vancouver and New Orleans for conferences.

I'll be traveling to Norway in July with the Prairie Home Compainion. Other than that the most traveling for work has been around Minneapolis, not so fun in rush hour...but working in Norway will be fun!

I have worked all over the US, but nothing real exciting. Mostly rural areas, the exception was living near the French Quarter in New Orleans.

I worked in London, but half of England has....

I don't think this counts, but my current job has a strange benefit of formal "R&R"'s that gives me and my wife 4 business class round trips from Poland to Nevada (home)each year. In it self this is nothing too great, but in lieu of these tickets I can use the value to fly wherever I want, and I can downgrade to coach and use it for family and friends and whatever. Basically I end up with $18,000 of free air travel to use it how I want! My family has certainly benefitted, and I have used it to go to Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Italy, USA, Poland, and on Wednesday I leave for Kenya and Zanzibar, Tanzania.

I guess it is not travel for work, but it is travel paid for by work which is even better! The best part is that I get paid for these trips...

Lastly, If I have never met you besides on this forum, you are not going to get a free ticket off of me.

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Originally posted by Llalewyn:
My company bought this property in San Francisco that averages about two homocides a year. I'm taking the apartment complex and not the neighborhood. I should've gotten hazard pay for going.

I did a temp job for a flower delivery company once. In one day I got to race from Disney, random hotels, hideous subdivisions where you the streets and numbers have no rythme or reason, and the projects. I didn't mind it, it wasn't like I was a pizza delievery guy that's usually a normal target. But then again, there's levels to bad neighborhoods, once you see the worst of the worst, others don't come off as freightening.
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Originally posted by Royce:
I guess it is not travel for work, but it is travel paid for by work which is even better! The best part is that I get paid for these trips...

Lastly, If I have never met you besides on this forum, you are not going to get a free ticket off of me.

That's the ticket. Literally. I never heard of something like that before. I don't want a free ticket, I just want a one day a week part time job at your company!

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Most interesting place I went for work...as in I got paid to do...I guess it would be the bathroom while I was clocked in and not at lunch. That's sad ain't it?

Charlotte, Philadelphia, and next on the list is beautiful Vermont.

I am seriously considering applying for a job in Key West though.

The Bahamas. It was the first time I ever had to fly someplace for a job assignment and the first time I ever saw my plane heading down the runway - ten minutes EARLY while I was not even at the gate.

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Originally posted by parisgirl:
The Bahamas. It was the first time I ever had to fly someplace for a job assignment and the first time I ever saw my plane heading down the runway - ten minutes EARLY while I was not even at the gate.

Oh no! haha. So you flew on standby then?

Podunk little village in Kazakhstan for my first job doing a geo survey... Horrid place.

My work has taken me to Many interesting places. I think the most unusual has to be Djibouti (look it up if you don't know about it, the people at Delta had a hard time figuring out where it was). I think the coolest place was 5 months in the Australian Outback...closest town was Katherine. I also lived in Darwin for some time, and Alice Springs. Austraila was my favorite place that work took me. I also did walk across the border of the DMZ in Korea, into the North, they would not allow us any further than that isolated bridge and walkway though. I have also been to GITMO, to the dentention center (I am a government consultant). Once again not very cool, but interesting. I did get a chance to do a little fishing while I was there.

The best place for working was Sochi probably.
It is in Russian Federation. Very historical, calm city and famous travel destination.

Prague and Greece wasn't bad too.
The worst place for working was India probably. Streets are so crowded, that it becomes frustrating to work at office.

I got a job recently with a military contractor. Houston Tx, for 2 weeks for medical tests and training/briefing. Houston was horrible..really. Then off to Dubai for some more breifing. Currently in Iraq, WWTP Oper. its very interesting to say the least. The best part is every 120days I get 10days PAID vacation along with a plane ticket from dubai for travel SO far so good.

Tommy, Houston IS horrible! But then, I'm biased, having lived her for 4 years now.

(A personal record: 4 years in the same place.)

The most interesting place I've travelled for work is also the only place I've travelled for work: Thailand. Well, I mean, I came to Houston for work, but it's already been agreed, Houston is not the kind of place you boast about going to. It's the kind of place you boast about being from: I'm from Houston, but I've left now.