After 13 years of putting the “finishing touches” on my US travel goals, I have finally resumed international travel. My phone and I are roaming, starting with London. I don’t normally travel where I have already been, including London, but I made the trip to meet a friend who lives there. Since the meet-up didn’t happen, I entertained myself with an evening stroll to Big Ben and Verdi’s La Traviata opera at Royal Ballet and Opera theatre, for example. One day in London I heard more languages than a year’s worth of travel in America. Fortunately I’m multi-lingual: Valley, Jive, Hawaiian Pidgin, Tijuanan, Canadian, and Chinese Food Menu. I did catch onto the Brits’ cycle of please, sorry, thank you.