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About me

Born in West Carthage, New York, I left that cold place
in the 60's to join the Army. Since then, I have had the
pleasure of living in many places and doing many things.
Learning and doing an occupation became sort of a
"hobby", and by choice, I have worked at over 30
occupations. Short of typing a complete biography,
my careers are...After the Army, I worked at the
Pentagon in Washington, D.C., then for RCA Service
co. as an electronics tech. , a deckhand on a Mississippi
River towboat, managed 2 mobile home parks, industrial
electrician, retail management, kitchen designer, potato
chip/cracker routes, retail merchandiser, medical transport
driver, semi-truck driver (gas truck,grain wagon,boats,
and wide load concrete), dispatcher, and a few other smaller
things along the way, like picking oranges and watermellon
for a day! I became interested in canoeing in a big way
when I decided to paddle from Fayetteville, N.C. to St. Pete,
Fl...a trip of 2 months, and over 1200 miles
(it's farther by water).......since then, my reliable canoe
has carried me thousands of miles.

My paddle first got wet on the Cape Fear River, N.C., then along the
Atlantic coast, and upstream for 110 miles on the St.Mary's
river .
I live on the banks of the beautiful Suwannee River in north
Florida.A river that I have paddled 3 times (250 miles) and
spent many 4 day weekends doing just 100 miles. Other trips
are:
the lower Withlacoochee river, and the
Peace river from start to finish. Trips on the Blackwater river,
the Econfina, the Ocklocknee river, the Ocklawaha river, the
northern Withlacoochee river and the St.Johns have all
contributed to the thousands of memories, sunburned nose,
and blistered hands while paddling a canoe. These experiences,
and my many occupations contribute to who I am.

Now in semi-retirement, I am converting my ol' canoe to
sail. I have put a deck on her, outriggers, and a mast. All
was done with alot of unique engineering, given the fact
that a canoe has no straight lines! But, I'm gettin' it done.
Hopefully by this fall (2009) she will catch the wind.

She will be "Spirit of the Suwannee".