Where will I begin my journey? - How bout where it all began.

Now I have thought long and hard about where my trip will begin. I live on the east coast in the US, so should I start going west? Maybe head to Europe and start traveling east? How bout where humans originated in Africa? Maybe where civilization sprouted in the Middle East? Yeah, that is what I will do. I am going to start in the land that may be the most fought over piece of real estate in the world. The land that civilization was born in, and the land that is geographically in the center of the world. I will start in the middle. The middle East!