Yep, 58 countries are a lot to get to. But keep in mind as
@Bootsy lives already in England, she can count the "countries " really close to her. As the same distance as our USA States are to us.
@MoonShadows . I am on a cooking forum, where lots of my UK friends will just pop down to France, so from the UK to France its like going to Florida for us. If you take all of UK it does not even cover the size of our long California. Over here, in the USA, we count how many states we visit, then countries are outside of the USA.
A lot of the countries that I've been to are much closer to you than to me! But a lot are just - far away.
If you're counting states in the U.S. that I've been to it's (from memory) California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine. Moving further afield (apart from 11 Caribbean islands) we've been to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java, India, Bhutan, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Morocco, Seychelles, Tunisia, Madagascar, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, - can't think of others (apart from the European countries).
So there are certainly a lot of them that you can get to easier than we can.
Had to look it up. was wrong in my judgement. miles from England to France is 608 miles, or a 10 hour drive. That is like for me to leave my house in PA and go to the west edge of the next state over which is Ohio. wow, France is closer than I thought to England.
At its nearest point, France is 22 miles from mainland England (by boat or tunnel) and closer to some of our Channel Islands. But London to Athens (Greece) is 2,000 miles.
P.S. - I think Bootsy is a "he."
I was, last time I looked!
