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I had to tease you, as I have the same problem. As well as proper grammar and punctuation.
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My Dad has been living a modest, but comfortable life on social security and his German pension in the Kaliningrad oblast of Russia. However, getting money from his German bank account has been harder to access since the invasion started.
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We need to come up with a list of the countries you can "spit between". Maybe confining it to situations where you can still see both countries one from the other.
I've never been on the Rio Grande, but I reckon that would be one - Old Mexico and the USA. I think there is also a Red River between the States and Canada, north of North Dakota, but I've also never even been up there, let alone been on the river between the two.
But I've crossed over between Brazil and Bolivia a few times, where you have to take a speed boat "taxi" to cross over. That would be a prime opportunity right there, because it's already in a small, open boat.
I've never been on the Rio Grande, but I reckon that would be one - Old Mexico and the USA. I think there is also a Red River between the States and Canada, north of North Dakota, but I've also never even been up there, let alone been on the river between the two.
But I've crossed over between Brazil and Bolivia a few times, where you have to take a speed boat "taxi" to cross over. That would be a prime opportunity right there, because it's already in a small, open boat.
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Uruguay and ArgentinaNeto wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:42 pm We need to come up with a list of the countries you can "spit between". Maybe confining it to situations where you can still see both countries one from the other.
I've never been on the Rio Grande, but I reckon that would be one - Old Mexico and the USA. I think there is also a Red River between the States and Canada, north of North Dakota, but I've also never even been up there, let alone been on the river between the two.
But I've crossed over between Brazil and Bolivia a few times, where you have to take a speed boat "taxi" to cross over. That would be a prime opportunity right there, because it's already in a small, open boat.
United States and Japan
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Canada and Alaska have a huge border. Although your spit might freeze if you try it during the wrong time of year.Neto wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:42 pm We need to come up with a list of the countries you can "spit between". Maybe confining it to situations where you can still see both countries one from the other.
I've never been on the Rio Grande, but I reckon that would be one - Old Mexico and the USA. I think there is also a Red River between the States and Canada, north of North Dakota, but I've also never even been up there, let alone been on the river between the two.
But I've crossed over between Brazil and Bolivia a few times, where you have to take a speed boat "taxi" to cross over. That would be a prime opportunity right there, because it's already in a small, open boat.
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I was thinking there needs to be a "between", like as in a river. I suppose Niagara Falls would be another place.Ken wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:17 pmCanada and Alaska have a huge border. Although your spit might freeze if you try it during the wrong time of year.Neto wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:42 pm We need to come up with a list of the countries you can "spit between". Maybe confining it to situations where you can still see both countries one from the other.
I've never been on the Rio Grande, but I reckon that would be one - Old Mexico and the USA. I think there is also a Red River between the States and Canada, north of North Dakota, but I've also never even been up there, let alone been on the river between the two.
But I've crossed over between Brazil and Bolivia a few times, where you have to take a speed boat "taxi" to cross over. That would be a prime opportunity right there, because it's already in a small, open boat.
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As to the actual topic here, I really don't know. We lived in Brazil for 18 years, and made a number of visits back there after that, some for a couple of months or so (maybe only 6 weeks?), and others for only a week. We have "saudades" (nostalgia) for the life there, and even for the country itself. But even though I fight feelings of patriotism for this country (The US of A), and sometimes desperately, I do still think that it's the best place to live, even for all of its (growing) faults. As for Abraham, I also had the opportunity to "return to the former country" (in my case, what is now Ukraine, or rather the part of it that is now largely under foreign domination). But I was never really inclined to go "back" there in the permanent sense. (I'm a bit sad now that I never went to visit while it was a possibility to do so.)
I've thought about this question for many years, probably first when the 100 year anniversary of my people's first immigration to the States rolled around. (That was in 1973 - the end of the first 100 years in the USA, I mean.) People were asking themselves if we had become so settled here that we would not be willing to leave, for Christian conviction's sake. I still wonder, and maybe even more now.
Do any of you all whose families have lived here for hundreds of years ever wonder about that? (I suspect that some of you have lived here longer than my people ever lived in any one place, with the first "displacement" taking place already during the lifetime of Menno Simons.)
I've thought about this question for many years, probably first when the 100 year anniversary of my people's first immigration to the States rolled around. (That was in 1973 - the end of the first 100 years in the USA, I mean.) People were asking themselves if we had become so settled here that we would not be willing to leave, for Christian conviction's sake. I still wonder, and maybe even more now.
Do any of you all whose families have lived here for hundreds of years ever wonder about that? (I suspect that some of you have lived here longer than my people ever lived in any one place, with the first "displacement" taking place already during the lifetime of Menno Simons.)
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Let's include the Curonian Spit on that list of spit between countries.
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I also grew up spending time in two countries, I would spend the school year here in Wisconsin, and would spend summer vacation with my father's family in Pakistan. Until 6th grade it was the opposite, I would attend school in Pakistan then spend summer vacation in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, now that my family and neighbors know that I became a Christian, I cannot safely go back. If Pakistan were to ever become safe for religious minorities, I'd consider spending time there again
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