Like most people, during these unprecedented days of lockdowns and layoffs, compliments of COVID-19, I’ve had much time to reflect on many of life’s past experiences. One of them has been recollecting my youthful days of traveling.

I grew up in the ’60s and’ 70s, when traveling across the globe was still pretty uncommon, if not a rarity. Without the internet and today’s technology, the other side of the world seemed millions of miles away. In many ways, it was.