Reading and restlessness - dissatisfaction at home, a sourness at being indoors, and a notion that the real world was elsewhere - made me a traveler. I have a deep interest in history and enjoy traveling to historical sites, museums, and archives to learn more about the past. I truly believe that with so much contradictory information available, there is more reason to travel than ever before: to look closer, to dig deeper, to sort the authentic from the fake, to verify, to smell, to touch, to hear and sometimes - importantly - to suffer the effects of this curiosity.