Feel sure many of you have been to these places
plus many others.Just sitting here reminising
and thought I would add Pacific. More Later.

HAWAII 4.5 yrs.French Frigate,Midway,Kure,Wake,
Guam,Yap,Iwo Jima,Kwajalein,Johnston,Fanning,
Christmas,Einewetok,Samoa,Pago-Pago,Okinawa.
Phillipines,Sangley Pt.,Manilla,Baguio.Taiwan,Taipai.Hong Kong.
THAILAND-Sattahip.Bangkok,Chiangmai.VIET NAM-
Udorn,Anthoi,Con Son,Camrahn Bay.JAPAN-Tokyo,
Sapporo. xring-Charlie32

In my USCG Career...Guam, all over Micronesia, up/down west coast, up/down east coast, Hawaii, midway,Japan, Puerto Rico all over caribean, Panama, Columbia, Long Island all over Alaska..bunch of places in between. Best duty stations: CGC Basswood,Kodiak and Mayort Fl...lot's of good times..

This seems like an interesting thread. I'm surprised more people have not posted their travels.

My list is not as impressive, but, here goes:

Bermuda,Panama,New Zealand,Australia,Antarctica,
American Samoa,Newfoundland,Nova Scotia, Quebec,Italy,Portugal,Aruba,Barbados,Mexico,
Antigua,Cuba.

Trans-Atlantic,Straits of Gibralta, The Med, Trans-Caribbean,Panama Canal,Equator,International Date Line, Antarctic Circle,Saint Lawrence Seaway,Lake Ontario,Lake Erie,Lake Huron, Saint Marys River,
Atlantic ICW, New Jersey ICW.

ME,NH,MA,RI,PA,VA,NC,SC,GA,FL,AL,MS,LA,LA,TX,NM,AZ,CA,WA,DC,MD,AK,MI.

In the 50's/60's when you got to the 1st district you pretty much stayed there,, transfers were across the dock to the ship that was leaving tomorrow. I got out of the district for 3 years, to Cape May (boiler room and Unimak) put 14 and 17 on my dream sheet and wound up in Portland, Me.

That's right Chief. I did my entire 20 - 9 - 2 in the First District except Sitkinak in the 17th.

My choices in Cape May were the 5th, 7th and 8th districts. For awhile I thought the 1st was not where I wanted to be. But, now, I've grown to love New England. I still enjoy going back to my home town in Georgia, I have two sisters there. I enjoy going to Florida, and will be going there in April for two weeks.

Life is good!

Why not Ill play, in my Coast Guard Career
I have had the opertunity to visit these places so here we go:
Gitmo before the prison, the Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Kew West, San Diego, Alameda, Victoria Canada, Alaska Dutch Hbr, Kodiak, Ketchican, Cordova, shoal cove, Pearl Hbr, Guam, Phuket Thailand, Sembawang Singapore, Bahrain, Victoria Seychelles, Port Louis Mauritius, Diego Suarez Madagascar, Cape Town South Africa, Mindelo Cape Verde, Bridgetown Barbados, Aruba, Panama canal zone, Costa Rica and I cant forget wounderful Port Arthur, Galvaston, Houston Texas Mobile Al.. Heck not bad for kid from San Antonio Texas 200 miles from the nearest salt water..My only advice if you get the chance to go to Cape Town South Africa GO!! but Cape Verde DONT !!!!

MY-Oh-My! Impressive list.

Who says the U.S.Coast Guardsman is a Puddle Jumper? Shallow-water Sailor?

I look forward to reading more.

Along these same lines, but different take: How about your most memorable port of call or favorite.

Mine are tied between the Grand Cayman Island during the Pirate Festival in the early 90's while abourd PADRE and Fleet Week in New York City while aboard CHEROKEE.

Other travels include all the Great Lakes, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Cuba, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic...

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Originally posted by QM:
Along these same lines, but different take: How about your most memorable port of call or favorite.

Mine are tied between the Grand Cayman Island during the Pirate Festival in the early 90's while aboard PADRE and Fleet Week in New York City while aboard CHEROKEE.

Other travels include all the Great Lakes, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Cuba, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic...

I think SAR standby in St. George's, Bermuda was a nice trip. Not too far to go. Civilian clothes on liberty. I remember it being clean around town.

Aruba was nice. But, with the Natalie Holloway tragedy, I will not return. Vacationed there.

Barbados was nice, It was the only island down there that served Flying Fish. Vacationed there.

Been going to Hollywood Beach, Florida annually for about 17 years. Going again in late April for two weeks.

Returning to home port after 5 weeks on ocean station (channel-fever!) was a good feeling.

Lots of good memories.

I think my favorite Port call was either Singapore and the night safari,or Cape Town but I agree the flying fish in Barbados with that yellow hot sauce washed down with the local rum was great! and most inportantly finally reaching home after months underway priceless!
just think of every thing most Coasties have done compared to the people who never left their home town !

Hmmmm, let's see. I guess I should just list where we went on the Chase, WHEC-718 in 83-84.

Halifax, Montreal, Ft. Lauderdale (Spring Break '83), FABULOUS Guantanamo Bay, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Croix, Nassau-Bahamas, P.R., Curacoa, Puerto Prince-Haiti, New Orleans, (World's Fair '84), partied at Dry Tortugas near Key West on return trip.

Newport Rhode Island for America's Cup (83..Sn Connor, Dennis's son was a crewmember with us),

NATO Op, Bremen Germany, South Hampton, England, Edinburgh (sp?) Scotland.

20 months on a WHEC and got to see a lot while getting paid for it.....it sure worked for me!

Don

Stationed at: Alameda, CA; New York, NY; Adak Island, AK; Sitkinak Island; AK; Ketchikan, AK; Juneau; AK; Barrow, AK; Kodiak, AK; Yorktown, VA; Juneau, AK; Ketchikan, AK; Seattle, WA; Point Reyes Station, CA.

Ports Visited:

CGC Confidence (then homeported out of Kodiak):
Adak Island, AK; Attu Island, AK; Kiska Island, AK; St Paul, AK; Juneau, AK; Sand Point, AK.

CGC Evergreeen (then homeported out of New London:
Woods Hole, MA; Halifax, NS; St. Johns, Newfoundland; Charleston, SC; Governors Island, NY; Curtis Bay (Baltimore), MD; Little Creek, VA; Hamilton, Bermuda; Key West, FL.

CGC Planetree (then homeported out of Juneau & Ketchikan, AK:
Craig, AK; Klawock, AK; Hydaberg, AK; Stewart, BC, Canada; Prince Rupert, BC, Canada; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Pearl Harbor, HI; Juneau, AK; Petersburg, AK; Sitka, AK; Five Fingers Island, AK; Eldrid Rock, AK; Mary Island, AK; Point Retreat, AK; Cordova, AK; Anchorage, AK; Seattle, WA; Coos Bay, OR; Reedsport, OR.

As person in charge of PACAREA Transportable Communication Center out of Point Reyes Station, Calif (Via "Red Tail Airlines" C-130):
Kodiak, AK; Cape Lisburn, AK; Cordova, AK; Sacramento, CA; Fresno, CA; Galviston, TX (LANTAREA TCC out of Chesapeake, VA was tango-uniform at the time); Seattle, WA.

TAD to CGHQ on Buzards Point, District of Confusion more times than I care to admit. Thank God it was never PCS

Personal travel: London, UK and just about every town with a good BBQ restaurant between San Franciso and Baltimore & Minot, ND to Big Bend, TX; A lot of towns with no name in the Mexican states of Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Drove a PCS from Yorktown, VA to Juneau, AK via the Trans-Canada Highway, entering Canada from Limestone Maine to the Province of New Brunswick, driving west and catching the Alaska Highway in Alberta and then up to Haines, AK via Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

Cool.....bad memory....but here goes

Columbia
Guatamala
Aruba
Russia
Greece
Romainia
Africa
Spain
France
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
Turkey
Crete
Ukraine
Canada
Bahamas
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
As Forest Gump said, Thats about it.


Chapwood.....

Though not all exotic places, but here goes.
All flying the USCG Colors
Portland, ME
Boston, MA
New York, NY
Baltimore, MD
Norfolk, VA
Charleston, SC
Jacksonville, FL
Miami, FL
Tampa/St. Pete, FL
Grand Turks
South Caicos
Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo,DR
Virgin Islands
Jamaica
Panama Canal (3 times)
Salinas Cruz, Mexico
Alcapulco, Mexico
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, Ca
Eureka, CA
Chetco River, CA
Division 11/13 S. Viet Nam
Cambodia (places unknown)

Feel as if I've been to hell and back a few times. (Hell, Grand Cayman)

My first foreign excursion with the CG was the unexplored region North of the Mason-Dixon Line. Then after a couple of years back close to home in Texas I went to CGC Eastwind homeported in Boston. While on the Eastwind I visited:
Panama (several times)
New Zealand (several times - Wellington, Port Lyttleton, Auckland)
McMurdo Station Antarctica
Cape Adare Antarctica
Suva, Fiji
Pago Pago, American Samoa
Cartagena, Colombia
San Juan, Puerto Rico (several times -yes I know it is US Territory, but I have been there for "anti-American" riots too)
Chile (Valparaiso, Punta Arenas)
Base "N" on Anvers Island near the Antarctic Peninsula (shore survey party for several days)
After the Eastwind I went to CG Lorsta Simeri-Crichi, CZ, Italy. During and after this tour I visited a number of areas in Italy (Sicily, Naples, Rome, The Vatican), and
France
Monaco
Spain
Netherlands
Great Britain
enroute to CGC Chincoteague. While on Chincoteague, I stopped in
Guantanamo
Jamaica
Bermuda
Newfoundland (lots of times)
Italy
Portugal
and lingered for many months in the vicinity of ocean stations Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo (plus participation in wreath-laying ceremonies near the site of the Titanic disaster)
Thence to CGC Sherman with stops in:
Guantanamo
Panama
Hawaii (I know, but I personally think we should give it back )
Guam
Subic Bay, RP (several times)
Squadron 3 patrol areas (mostly around Song Ong Doc)
Hong Kong (several times)
Bangkok, Thailand
Singapore
almost to the Chicom Island of Hainan

I'd pretty much have to say
Been there done that.
Had a lot of fun in the process...

quote:

Originally posted by charlie32:
Feel sure many of you have been to these places
plus many others.Just sitting here reminising
and thought I would add Pacific. More Later.

HAWAII 4.5 yrs.French Frigate,Midway,Kure,Wake,
Guam,Yap,Iwo Jima,Kwajalein,Johnston,Fanning,
Christmas,Einewetok,Samoa,Pago-Pago,Okinawa.
Phillipines,Sangley Pt.,Manilla,Baguio.Taiwan,Taipai.Hong Kong.
THAILAND-Sattahip.Bangkok,Chiangmai.VIET NAM-
Udorn,Anthoi,Con Son,Camrahn Bay.JAPAN-Tokyo,
Sapporo. xring-Charlie32

This is just in the 14thCGD......
Hawaii-1-year,1960 USCG Buoy Tender Blackhaw WAGL 390.Midway,Wake,Johnston,Guam,Yap,Anguar,Ulithi(after the Typhoon,1960),Kwajalein,Einewetok,Okinawa(During the Cuban Crisis),Japan-Yokuska,Japan-Yokohama Japan-Tokyo,Japan-Misawa,China-Hong Kong,China-Kowloon,Philippines-(USNS Subic Bay),Philippines-Angeles,Philippines-Bagio,Philippines-Cavite(USCGAD/NAS),Philippines-Manila,Phlippines-(USCG LORSTA Talampulan Island,1 year and all the surounding barrios and islands).....

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