Like anyone else, I have my share of fears. I always have from a very young age. As the youngest of three children, I felt a sense of closeness to my mother that was hard to break away from, and I used to wonder how I would ever leave her behind. But there is one thing that's helped me spread my wings, and that has been travel. I have learned to face my fears through travel. I left home for the first time at age 16 for a semester in Israel. We were pretty poor and didn't really have the money to send me, but my grandfather offered to fund the Read More