My family keeps wanting to drag me to Europe for a vacation - I have no interest in going there. I don’t speak their languages, not interested in their histories, touring around, etc.
The U.S., however, I’m very interested in visiting every corner of it. Amazed at the variety and beauty.
There is plenty to see in the US.
I understand your feeling. I haven’t been there either, and have little interest.
When I was growing up, my Dad especially wanted to see every bit of our country. So every summer we got in the family station wagon and tent camped around the country, to nearly every National Park. We saw so many beautiful places. We even went through parts of Canada in order to see Alaska (I’m a native of Florida). The only state I hadn’t been to by the time I was ten was Hawaii, and I dare say only because we couldn’t drive there.
What an education of the vast and beautiful country we live in. One of my favorite places was the Tetons, but all of it truly is America the Beautiful.
Me Too!
Europe is definitely a long haul. BUT so much of our roots go back to Greece and Rome. We were able to go to Greece last year and hope to go to Italy someday.
You can find guides that speak English and a lot of people study it as a second language in school. Not as much of a wasteland as we thought, either.
My husband and I took our children all across the country: from Monument Valley, to the Grand Canyon, to Carlsbad Caverns, to the mountains of Vermont, the Grand Ol Opryland, Myrtle Beach, Broadway, Statue of Liberty, the National Mall in DC, Niagara Falls, the Hidden Lakes of Kentucky, and more.
We’ve been to VT, NH, CT, NY. PA, AR, KY. NC, SC, FL, GA, OK, LA, AL, NV, UT, CA, MI, VA, MS, CO, IL, AZ, Canada, and Europe.
If you do go to Europe, Italy is beautiful. The food is amazing, the cities are clean, and lots of people speak English. You will experience an art overload. Stunning castles, churches, the palladium, the coliseum, the herculean ruins, the canals of Venice, the fountains in Rome, the Duomo in Florence, the tower in Piza...there are so many iconic things to see. Avoid Germany and France, they are overrun now.