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How Did Your First Travels Come About?
When you talk about today, and being trying to stay in local people's homes and get away from the hotels and tourist centers, that was a pretty good model. My first ever trip, I grew up in Massachusetts, and we traded houses with a family in the outskirts of London. We just sort of set up a daily routine for living, and we'd go into town and do touristy stuff,. But at night we would come back and be in a suburb. And I think that was pretty influential. After college, my real main travel experiences were visiting the families of the students I taught in New York City. For the next few years, like age 22 to 26 or 27, I