Would you consider it traveling OVERSEAS if I traveled from the US to Costa Rica?

Question

Or does that only apply when traveling to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, etc. from the US?

Answer 1

"Overseas" typically connotes travel across an ocean. Since Costa Rica isn't, the term doesn't apply.

Answer 2

technaly, yes.

your leaving the USA, so that's 'overseas'

Answer 3

Yes, you're going overseas - gulfs are often considered seas.  Mostly, though, all that really matters is whether you need to take a passport in order to get back in.

Answer 4

Well, I think it does apply since the term "overseas" means going into another country. So yes, the word does fit it even though it may not seem like it.

Answer 5

no

Answer 6

technically no, but who cares...you are going to Costa friggin' Rica! I fly out of San Francisco to San Jose, CR in exactley one month! Im so stoked!....when do u go?

Answer 7

Well the term actually means beyond or across the sea. But I usually use it meaning any foreign country.

Are you going to get to go to Costa Rica?

Answer 8

Nope, sorry, it's still part of our hemisphere and, therefore, you are not going over either the Atlantic or Pacific.

You're going ABROAD but not going OVERSEAS. When people say they've been overseas but they've just been to Central America or South America, I feel sorry for them because they appear sort of ignorant about geography. If I am in a bitchy mood, I feel like saying "OK, so exactly WHAT sea did  you cross?"