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This photo collage is a work in progress.  It has given me the opportunity to revisit the wonderful places and people I've met along the path.  What a great life I've enjoyed in these 51 years:

Experienced childhood in the hills of central Virginia.
Moved to Arizona in 1964.
Graduated high school and dropped out of engineering school the following year.
Studied agriculture, labored on a farm, planted 40 acres of pine trees.
Helped manage a petroleum storage facility.
Drove an 18 wheeler haulin' gasoline.
Bicycled through Europe, hitch-hiked across America.
Worked in a electronic manufacturing firm.
Joined the Moonies, sold flowers & junk food across the east coast.
Lived in a while in New York, Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Maine,
Bayou La Batre and Pascagoula.
Built fishing boats.
Motorcycled from Alabama to Phoenix via New York: on a Yamaha 400 I'll never forget!
Supervised commercial office/warehouse construction.
Developed residential property, built custom homes, suffered thru the RTC fiasco.
Joined the family computer leasing business.
Warehoused, re-furbished, marketed & administered. Wrote some software.
Visited Korea, train-toured Great Britain.
Retired.
Pick-up truck toured the US, built a furniture piece or two, train-travelled Japan.
Web-published a bit, RV-toured the west coast.
Un-retired.
Wore an orange apron at the Home Depot for 90 days, swung a hammer again, delivered flowers again.
Learned computer-aided design, under-studied civil engineering ...

Currently semi-retired, travelling and spending quality-time in the neighborhood.  I look for good dialogue, laughter
and digital pictures.