As a child I traveled much of the central and western United States with my family. My job took me across the United States and to Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. I made my first overseas trip to Paris at the age of 50 in 2002. I began to really travel the world in 2005 although work prevented me from doing more than 3-4 weeks of travel each year. When I retired in June of 2022, I had traveled to all fifty of the states in the United States and visited 27 countries. As of today, I have visited a total of 50 countries. There is so much more of the world that I have yet to see!