Writing this made me cry (Page 11): =============== Amerigo Vespucci in 1502, an Italian merchant and explorer, identified that the North and South America as separate continent.

Radiance3

Ginny_Dandy wrote:

Columbus never set foot in America. His ships landed in Barbados!

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Amerigo Vespucci in 1502, an Italian merchant and explorer, identified that the North and South America as separate continent. America was named after him.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

Radiance3 wrote:

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Amerigo Vespucci in 1502, an Italian merchant and explorer, identified that the North and South America as separate continent. America was named after him.

And that relates to Columbus - how?

Radiance3

Ginny_Dandy wrote:

And that relates to Columbus - how?

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They were both Italians and he followed after Columbus. I don't have time to discuss right now.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

Radiance3 wrote:

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They were both Italians and he followed after Columbus. I don't have time to discuss right now.

In any event, it's a lie that Columbus discovered America. So why isn't the holiday named after the real discoverer? Probably because he wasn't as immoral as Columbus.

336Robin Loc: North Carolina

Ginny_Dandy wrote:

In any event, it's a lie that Columbus discovered America. So why isn't the holiday named after the real discoverer? Probably because he wasn't as immoral as Columbus.

If it were named correctly it would probably be named "Indian Land."

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

336Robin wrote:

If it were named correctly it would probably be named "Indian Land."

True…And since we are renaming everything else it should be returned to its name before Columbus…

336Robin Loc: North Carolina

lindajoy wrote:

True…And since we are renaming everything else it should be returned to its name before Columbus…

I guess that would be "North America." Are we going to move back to Europe as well? I don't believe we will like it there.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

336Robin wrote:

I guess that would be "North America." Are we going to move back to Europe as well? I don't believe we will like it there.

Nice to visit but no moving there for me…Although Switzerland is beautiful…

336Robin Loc: North Carolina

lindajoy wrote:

Nice to visit but no moving there for me…Although Switzerland is beautiful…

My idea of doing Europe is do my 90 days at a time in each country, before moving on to another Air Bnb in another country. There are enough countries that I think I could stay on the move the rest of my life.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

336Robin wrote:

My idea of doing Europe is do my 90 days at a time in each country, before moving on to another Air Bnb in another country. There are enough countries that I think I could stay on the move the rest of my life.

Like the idea and yes, stay on the move the rest of your life or until that one place hit and you knew you were home..

336Robin Loc: North Carolina

lindajoy wrote:

Like the idea and yes, stay on the move the rest of your life or until that one place hit and you knew you were home..

Absolutely. I was talking to someone recently that came to NC from up North and they said they came down here for work and found an awesome rental and just stayed.

That sounded really good to me. I always liked the idea of going somewhere and learning to speak the language because I couldn't read the damn news or be affected much by the politics! lol

Radiance3

Ginny_Dandy wrote:

In any event, it's a lie that Columbus discovered America. So why isn't the holiday named after the real discoverer? Probably because he wasn't as immoral as Columbus.

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Fifteen thousand to twenty thousand years years ago, indigenous people from Asia traveled thru the Bering land into Alaska. Now the Bering sea is a body of water.

Native Americans resemblance primarily from China, Japan, Korea, India, and the Philippines.

skyrider

lindajoy wrote:

Like the idea and yes, stay on the move the rest of your life or until that one place hit and you knew you were home..

There's nothing like seeing new places. Our plan was to drive to all 44 countries of Europe until we got cut off at the pass by the "plague". Hoping to fire up the plan again this Spring.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

336Robin wrote:

Absolutely. I was talking to someone recently that came to NC from up North and they said they came down here for work and found an awesome rental and just stayed.

That sounded really good to me. I always liked the idea of going somewhere and learning to speak the language because I couldn't read the damn news or be affected much by the politics! lol

My first time I brought one of those language converters, which was great to read it in English but replying say in German or Italian was like WTH?? Proper pronunciation right out the window even though it repeated it in the language, not just written.. French was ok, Spanish ok but anything else 🤔😳….

When traveling politics neverrrrr entered the mind… Altho when in Holland I had a question /answer format with a guy very interested in our politics.. Some of his questions ticked me off too… lolol

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

skyrider wrote:

There's nothing like seeing new places. Our plan was to drive to all 44 countries of Europe until we got cut off at the pass by the "plague". Hoping to fire up the plan again this Spring.

I hope you get to as well!!!

My mom always called me her roaming gypsy..🥳 Love travelling…