My grandmother on my father's side lived well into her eighties but never left the continental United States. She once visited California and found even it to be too foreign for her tastes. She not only had no desire to visit places outside of her native land but was afraid of foreign climes. My collegian daughter, in attempting to write something about her great-grandmum asked me: "If xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreign people, what is the name for the irrational fear of foreign places?" I don't know. And, wishing to appear all-knowing in the eyes of my only daughter, I really hate that.