About Me

This is a little bit about me, who I am and some of the reasons I decided to start writing a bit ago. This is my little tangle in this World Wide Web, to share thoughts, hobbies and more.

I grew up as an Air Force brat, living in places like Turkey and Germany. In Germany, yes, I was a Boy Scout, scouting took me many places which along with my family's adventures around Europe, provided a fortune of historical and contemporary cultural experiences.  From the salt mines of Salzburg, learning to ski in the Bavarian Alps, eating pizza in Italy, nothing really like our pizza, I couldn't have asked for anything more.

Returning to the "states" as a teenager, was a bit of a shock to the system. My memory of "home" quite different from this new reality back then. Like many of us, my rebellious nature took over during those busboy/cook days and into the Army days was not the greatest personality trait. Those Forest Service days, where I met the love of my life, things changed. Adulthood became my reality, education a priority, not unlike most of our stories, children entered this arc. 

I have been around for some time, not a man of wealth, but maybe, at least I would like to think, a man of taste, a bit like what Mick sang.  Many hats worn, through this journey. A busboy, a cook, a stint in the Army, a USFS firefighter fighting wildland fires.  I have built and maintained trails in the Sierra, on the Pacific Crest Trail and the Redwoods' Ladybird Johnson Grove and other walks you may have experienced through the mighty Sequoias. 

Precious metals exploration, around the Americas, in the early "professional" days with a mining company that owned a business John Prine sang about... Peabody's Coal Company. Drawing geologic maps with ink and mylar, innovating technology into our map making and data processing. A phone banker, desktop support, server builds, and so on, and so on to the place I am today, not yet retired but still having fun enabling success for others in my technology role.  

I have had the opportunity to visit many wonderful places and meet some incredible persons during my adventures, their cultures, their beliefs their countries' natural resources exploited or preserved.  I hope to make use of these experiences and share in this site some of those fortunate times. 

Just like many of you my life arc has made me who I am today, I will muse to share my experiences both past and present, which may make you laugh at me, laugh with me, cry with me, yell at me or again yell with me. This site is my attempt to maybe inspire others from this arc and be is inspired by your life arcs at whatever radius you are on your arc. I love wine, food, outdoors, family, people and yes, work. This memorialization, while it may not just be mine in the end can be a collective tangle of arcs. 

Dining experiences, movies, concerts, wine, travel, America the beautiful in the photography all centerpieces. No specific theme when I write, these are muses on which I am reflecting on the moment.  I have no special talents around writing, photography, cooking or any other thing you may experience here. Know that I will share honest and open opinions, experiences, thoughts and maybe, just maybe keep your interest enough to get your thoughts and opinions reflected back!

I am thankful to have had this foundational experience. Built by the diversity in my life, from the 

people I meet, the cultures I have explored, these assortment of life experiences has always guided me to learn and love people no matter how different we may be. There are similarities in all of us, find them, celebrate them!

As a visitor here, I hope for you to be a part of this Interested-Party I would like to build. I am interested to hear your arc, or how I may have influenced the telling of your story, to interact with and share similar or different experiences. I would hope that your stroll through this community, piques your interest in a place to visit now and then to just muse.