Common for presidential candidates to visit other nations?

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It seems pretty common to me. Remember how infatuated Europe was with Senator Obama when he took his show on the road in 2008?

From Wikipedia: In July 2008 Obama traveled to Kuwait, Afghanistan,^[16] Iraq,^[17] Jordan,^[18] the West Bank,^[19] Israel, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. During the course of this trip he met with assorted international leaders, including President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan,^[20] Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France,^[21] and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, as well as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Conservative opposition leader David Cameron.^[22]
On July 24, 2008 he gave a speech at the Victory Column in Berlin before a crowd of estimated 200,000 to 240,000 people.^[23]

And then they awarded him the Peace prize and he hadn't even been in office for a year. That was unbelievable. But at least he had the grace to be humble about his complete lack of achievement.