Have you ever traveled outside of the USA?

A definite yes to that question.  I haven't traveled as much as I would like since I haven't been to Australia or Israel as of yet.  I want to visit those two countries for much different reasons.  Australia because of the strangeness of its fauna and flora and Israel for religious reasons.
I have been to Italy and can cross that one off my bucket list.  Flying to Italy and staying in Rome for those few precious days, was the ultimate thrill for me.  Seeing Pompeii and being able to walk in the tracks made by Roman chariots was unbelievable.  I was a tourist with a capital T during that trip.  The beauty of the Vatican and the grandeur of the surviving buildings from the Roman time impossible to imagine unless you can see it in person.  Being able to walk through a Roman town that is just as it was thousands of years ago and then having an amusing incident at the end of the tour.  We were resting after walking through Pompeii.  In Pompeii now, there are many feral dogs roaming around no doubt being fed by tourists.  One of these dogs decided to use one of the tourists as a fire hydrant while he was sitting on a ledge resting.  The amusing part was the man didn't notice until the people around him started laughing.  Poor man had to make the bus ride home shirtless. 
The tours we had in Rome were so nice.  We were picked up at our hotel and delivered back again in the late afternoon in time for us to walk to a wonderful restaurant that was partially sunken into the ground so that we had to walk down a couple steps to get to the original door.  Food was wonderful.  It was so good that my husband who previously had hated pasta would order it for every meal. 
I have also been to Germany many times and actually walked into the house that my ancestors were born in.  I saw the door that Napoleon ripped off the barn to get hay for his horses when he marched his troops through on the way to Russia.  The house is now a party barn and is rented out for weddings and other parties but it is still standing and the street it is on is still named for my family.
Canada, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, England and Belguim have touched my feet some for a longer time than others.  They are all interesting and all are a little bit different and a little bit the same.  The same for the people.  I would recommend international travel to everyone.  If nothing else, than to learn the world isn't contained in the borders of the USA.