When I got out of the Marine Corps in 1970 I knew I wanted to travel.  My first opportunity came a year later and I traveled across the states in a 1960 Datsun station wagon.  This resulted in the car engine blowing up in Minnesota on the way back.  A year later my first wife and I spent six weeks hitchhiking around Europe.  I have two carousels of slides that will eventually be on the Europe page.

A favorite aunt visited Mexico and brought back pictures of the ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula.  I knew I had to go and it took several years to get that trip together.  It lasted about six months.  I had a hell of a lot of fun.   Met the White Witch of the Ice Cream, came back to Oregon and wrote Bones of the Whale Road. 

A couple of years later I went back and lived for about four months in the mountains of Oaxaca writing poetry and sampling the mycological delights of the area.

I came back and continued my education in Oregon and wrote BUBBLONIA:  AN ENERGY COLLAGE.

I decided then I had to go to Peru.  Almost a decade later after another hitchhiking trip across the US I finally managed to get there.  I spent four months visiting a comprehensive sampling of the prehistoric ruins and indigenous cultures there with a brief visit to Bolivia. 

Next I decided that since the Andes had been so spectacular, I had to go to the Himalayas.  That was a long way away, so I decided I needed to make a year long trip of it.  I did.  And in the process went to Thailand, India, Nepal, Java, Bali, Australia and New Zealand.

When I returned, I acquired employment that has allowed me to travel about 250,000 miles all over the western United States.  For much of that travel I have taken video and the process of adding pictures from those travels is one that a visitor to Bubblonia.com can look forward to.  During that time I returned to Mexico and this time Guatemala and Honduras.

I intend to go to Egypt and possibly other destinations around the Mediterranean during the winter of 2002.  Want to come along?