Donna and I made our latest trip to our beloved Dingle, Ireland recently and it only deepened our love for this amazing piece of the world. From our first interaction, with the easygoing Customs officer at the pleasant Shannon airport, to the conversations we struck up with virtually everyone we came in contact with – locals or fellow American tourists at pubs and restaurants, in shops, on hikes, to visiting old haunts and discovering new places, to just taking in the natural beauty of the Dingle Peninsula, which National Geographic has called the most beautiful place on Earth, we feel almost at home here as we do in Maryland. This trip we stayed an unprecedented three weeks as an experiment to see if we would become bored or restless for that amount of time. We decidedly did not. It was a blessing to have so much time to just be here without immediately eyeing the calendar to see how few days remaining we had. We were able to tune out the vitriol plaguing our country and fully ...