"Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller" - Ibn Battuta When I was in Arizona last winter, a good friend pointed out that often stories of my travels start off with the phrase, "When I was in ..." and I can fill int the blank with a variety of countries, but my most visited country by far is Germany. I like to joke that I blame my parents for my love of traveling because they sent me to visit family living in Japan as a teenager. My first trip to Europe was decided by a phone call from my mom asking if I wanted to attend a UCC Forum in Germany and I immediately responded, "yes!" I have a friend who also likes to travel the world, and she frequently calls me up when she finds "a good deal" and we book a trip somewhere. She is the reason I agreed to go to Spain and Portugal during a COVID nap, and she found a good deal to Vietnam, somewhere she had wanted to visit, and I suggested adding on Cambodia because it would...