text:  He lived in London for 17 years, France for eight years. He visited Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany. He got around. And you think about, you know, imagine a month at sea, and you don't know if you're going to make it. You know, his wife, Deborah, would not travel across the Atlantic for good reason. It was dangerous. There were storms and shipwrecks and pirates. So you had to really want to travel back then, and he did.