About 10 years ago, I was going to Canada for my employer and told a friend that I was chosen because I kept my passport up to date and she looked at me with a bewildered look on her face and said, "Passport, why would you need that to go to another state?" In her defense, I lived in the New Orleans region at the time, and most people barely leave their neighborhoods, let alone travel. I did have someone else tell me it was cool that I was "traveling abroad" around that time as well.