Last spring my daughter spent a week in Israel to start her international traveling. Last summer she spent a month in India working with an eye care foundation. In the winter she went back to Israel to study.

This summer, she will be spending eight weeks doing research with the Queensland Mental Health Research Center in Brisbane Australia. She doesn’t know a sole.

Next spring, she will be spending the semester abroad most likely in India, South Africa and Brazil pursuing a global health curriculum. And then next summer another global health research project in some corner of the world.

OK, the point of my blog. As a college student, I had been out of the country with my family a few times on vacation. That’s it. The thought of traveling the world would not have occurred to me and frankly, would have frightened me.

What has been your traveling experience and when did it start?