Life

I grew up in the state of Idaho in the northwestern United States. I spent most my younger years within a few hundred miles of Boise the capital city. My earliest memories are living on a hot-spring fed recreation center called Nat-Soo-Pah. It was named by Native Americans and owned by my family.

When I was five my two brothers and I spent the summer collecting aluminum cans to buy a trampoline. I spent thousands of hours on it absorbed in childhood fantasies and learning to do things that would scare my mother.
My mother and father do the snowbird thing, splitting their time between Idaho and Arizona. I have two older married brothers. Each has two children.

When I was seven my family moved to a dairy farm near a village of eighty people called Dietrich. Dietrich is a small religious community near the end of the world. We raised cats and cows for seven years.

When I was fourteen my father went into politics and was elected to the local governing body for the state of Idaho. I skipped 8th grade and went with him to the capital city. I lived in a hotel while he performed his services for the state. When his legislative session was complete I moved in with friends of the family to take advantage of the better schools. I was able to double up my junior/senior year and graduate at sixteen. I thought I was smarter than everyone else and headed off to prove it.

I started to hitchhiking around the states. While living on a beach in Hawaii, I met a friend who got me hooked on the idea of international travel.

When I was seventeen I moved to Europe. I hitched from town to town working as bartender and waiter. I lived for a year in Garmisch, Germany a beautiful town in the southern Bavarian Alps.

I moved back to the US and went to school for philosophy at Georgetown for a couple of years before getting hired by a Dot.Com company. One thing led to another and I ended up running a large system integrator in New Mexico.

One day I visited New York and it became home. I spent the my next years playing in and around the island of Manhattan till middle America invaded it.

I wrote some patents for speech recognition technology, played a lot of Everquest and had a couple of love affairs. I spent two years studying acting at the Lee Strasberg acting school in New York and performed in some off Broadway shows.

I recently decided to leave the US permanently. I tend to wander to South America in the winter and Eurasia in Summer. Forty-five countries later I am still looking for a home.

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