Born in Minneapolis Minnesota in '78 but don't remember it. Was moved to San Antonio Texas 3 minutes from Lackland AFB when I was 11 months old and never moved away. However, by the time I was 16 years of age and I got my license I began to travel around the state a lot. Eventually I would go into Mexico (despite not speaking much Spanish, save but to order food, find a restroom or get my knob polished), Chicago, New York State, parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio (Cleveland, Niles, Youngstown, Windham, Ravana, Kent, Akron, Columbus) < where most of the family clan is at. Outside of going into several parts of Mexico I have never left CONUS though. Been wanting to visit Australia and New Zealand for about a decade, Japan and a few other places and might still one day, but it's not really a priority and if I never do, it's not a big deal. In the places I have been and the things done, and the people met (or fucked at one point or another), I can say that... same shit, different place.
I've come to the realization that outside of Tourist places, and getting to delve into the customs of a different place, there's almost no point in traveling around much. Any city/town you go to is the same shit. Endless strip malls (and remnants of indoor 1960s/1970s malls) litter the landscape, anywhere you go where you're not from, YOU'RE the one with time on your hands, and everyone else is stuck in their daily routines, which mirror your own where you are from. I'm still sad that as an Air Force Brat I never got to travel the way others did. Dad was pushing troops for 3706 BMT out of Lackland and he wasn't leaving, until he retired in 1985. ---I WILL SAY THIS THOUGH--- from the places I've been, I honestly can't see myself ever living anywhere But Goddamned TEXAS.
*HOME TO ME is San Antonio / Austin Texas. It's two different worlds spread apart by only an hour and 20 minutes of driving. Both have more or less everything I need to be happy, and if I want to go to the coast, there's South Padre Island and/or Corpus Christi/Port Aransas too. Most people here are friendly, price of living is cheap as hell in SATX, though you have to deal with the trash of society here like anywhere else... and when you're in full on party mode where anything goes... AUSTIN TEXAS! I don't intend to ever stop traveling, but for now it's not big on my list. I'm sticking around SATX though as for home and my parents are giving me the house I grew up in, fully paid at that, sometime in the next 5 to 6 years. That's a blessing for me. Strange that I couldn't wait to leave the old neighborhood growing up and at age 37, there's no place I feel more at home at, more "relaxed". On The 10 Year Plan will be a trip to Australia/New Zealand and maybe Japan. But that's gonna' happen only AFTER I get married to the love of my life, and I had said after my divorce I'd never marry again. Well I plan to. Honeymoon prolly be to Aussie Land or Bonaire as Hawaii is so cliche'