QotD: A Long, Long Way From Home

Where is the farthest you have ever been away from home? Did you get homesick? 
Submitted by Melissa.

For my 21st birthday, my parents paid for a trip to the UK to do the tourist thing. I spent a month on a Contiki tour climbing the castles and drinking the pubs dry (well not quite).

I wasn't homesick while I was on the tour. There was way too much to do and see. Personally, I though it was far too short.

On the way back home, we stopped in Hong Kong overnight. By the time you check in, sleep, eat and check out, we didn't actually *see* any of Hong Kong (except the shops that were in the same street as the motel).

I was homesick here. Being much closer to home than the UK, I spent most of the time there counting down the hours to the plane landed back in Sydney.