There’s a photograph I keep returning to—Tom and Marina (wife) side by side, leaning together the way only partners who’ve logged thousands of miles can. Together they traveled to 46 of the 50 U.S. states, collecting a license plate from each one as proof of the adventure. Those plates now line the walls of his office back in the Netherlands, inside a house that dates to the 17th century, a room blending the new and old worlds - both worlds of trade, travel, and adventure. Ma