Travel has been the focus of my life for as long as I can remember. The youngest of a gaggle of kids, I had to get on a plane if I wanted to visit siblings that had moved to other states and started their own families. As a college student, I took a group tour to Europe and couldn’t figure out why the majority of my fellow travelers hung out in bars with other Americans when there were local people to meet and out-of-the-way neighborhoods to discover more+