Hello Chris I have actually been lucky enough to travel quite a bit for my work. I have been to Sicily and I traveled to Japan many many times over the last few years. Travel is actually a nice little perk of my job, though I haven't traveled much since my daughter was born. Dawn

I get to travel quite a lot in my job, both for scientific conferences around the world (like one I was at just last week in Taiwan) and for team meetings for my spacecraft missions (for example, I was in England last month for a Cluster team meeting). Many missions these days have team members from around the world, each providing instruments and/or expertise - for example, MMS has instruments coming from Austria as well as the U.S., and Cluster (an ESA mission) has instruments from many countries. I also travel for educational outreach. For example, I have taken my Discovery Dome to reach 6000 students in Morocco last fall, and have done teacher or student events in Zambia, Ethiopia, Mexico, and many other places. I have interviewed some of my UK Cluster colleagues.. you can see them at my Cluster outreach website http://space.rice.edu/clu...index_multimedia.php One of the great things about participating in space science is that you have colleagues all over the world, all interested in science and how the universe works. I just wish I were more fluent in other languages... I speak some Spanish, German, and French but I'd love to be able to speak Chinese!