As I pack for my first trip out of the US in many years I reflect on a question asked by one of my co-workers. He asked “ Why would anyone want to leave the states in these troubled times.” Ive sat here for a long time pondering this question… knowing how I feel about it but unable to come up with the right wording to get my point across. I understand there are bad people in the world… but I also understand there are wonderful people in the world. People I haven’t met in places I’ve never seen.   So I came up with the top…