Hello everyone! For as long as I can remember, travel inspired me in ways that I never understood. My passion for traveling began when I was a kid growing up in Ohio spending endless hours daydreaming of sailing on an ocean or flying on a plane (both ironic imaginations for reasons I will share later). As I became an adult, I first began traveling extensively during a nearly five-year enlistment in the U.S. Navy. It started in 1990 when I literally flew out of a January s