Thanks to a father in international business, I developed a love of traveling early on. I of course loved our trips to the beach and Disney World when I was young, but I particularly loved trips we took to Bermuda, California, and London. During college, I took every opportunity to study abroad and was able to do a summer semester in Florence, Italy (with weekend trips to Cinque Terre, Venice, and Rome), and a 3-week study tour of Russia. After graduating, I spent a summer working in youth camps in Ukraine. While Disney will always be my first love, now that my children are getting older my preferences are cruising and all-inclusive resorts. I love getting away from the big tourist attractions, though, and learning more about the local culture. I believe that traveling and seeing the world, meeting people of other cultures, and sharing these experiences with the people you love enriches your life and helps you be a more empathetic and respectful person. My bucket list for travel includes visiting all 50 states (I’m at 41), seeing the Aurora Borealis, French Polynesia, and a World Cruise. “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” –Anthony Bourdain