I'm not much of a world traveler, but I did go to Europe once not willingly. That's a different story for a different day. I just realized that you can actually visit Paris, Vienna and Lisbon without ever leaving Missouri though. That would have saved me so much time.
I read an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune that featured Brett Eldredge.
They highlighted that the artist comes from the tiny town (population 9,000) Paris, IL. Brett said that no matter what is happening in his life he always returns home to get centered and "put his feet back on the ground."
I'm much like Brett in that aspect. We both grew up in a small town and we both, when