I've sailed in over 20 countries. I would go back in a heartbeat to 19 of them. The one I wouldn't would surprise most people here.
Cruising the
Pacific Northwest, USA and Canada is amazing during the summer and fall.
Mexico's
west coast has much to recommend it in the
Winter Months.
Costa Rica was amazing cruising, lots of great
animals to see, some of the warmest and friendliest people I have ever met.
French Polynesia, wow the
scuba diving was out of this world.
Tonga was great, friendly people a very different culture from my own, wonderful to visit!
Nuie Wow again great
diving, wonderful people can't be beat. Smallest country I have ever personally been to.
Palmerston atoll, great place, can't recommend it enough, cried when we left.
Looking forward to checking out
Australia some day coming up.
Everywhere has good things and bad things about it. The USA can be an amazing place to
cruise, it can also be a bureaucratic nightmare.
We have everything here, from the Fiords of
Alaska, to The swamps of
Florida. The largest bodies of fresh
water to sail on. (That wasn't a my lakes are bigger than your lakes thing, just it is amazing to sail on them, Fresh
water and out of the sight of land, pretty amazing!)
Some places appeal to some people. I would caution everyone that wants to go cruising to never listen to the press to form an opinion of foreign countries. Either the country that I am from or the next country that I am going to. Every one of them has great things about it, and bad things about it. Comes with people being involved. Most of the time you have to go to the country to see what YOU think about it.
Guy
:-)