Originally Posted by
Science Goy
Then why the arbitrary distinction of setting foot on a country's "soil?" If you fly over a state or country you are technically within its sovereign territory, and hence have physically been in that place.
You have not physically touched its soil.
Connecting at DEN you physically walk on Colorado Soil so you have been to Colorado. Flying over you have not been to it cause you have not touched its soil. However I do know people who count a country that they have flown over.
This is how I count a nation. You may count is differently.