A world traveler, I was raised in a little fishing village (fast turning into a booming city) off the shores of Lake Victoria, in Kenya (that’s in East Africa – for the geographically crippled). I spent much of my childhood with my best friend running around in my vast garden looking for snakes, trapping birds and feeding them to my dogs, throwing little frogs into blenders, setting my puppy on monitor lizards and watching them fight etc… All this, of course, develops a degree of bad karma and nature came back at me with a vengeance. All my life I have been constantly attacked by birds – flocks of geese, seagulls on beaches, canaries at zoos, ostriches on farms, ducks by ponds etc… I knew I had to do something when I almost got killed by a charging elephant when on safari so I swiftly turned into a vegetarian, and needless to say, I’ve developed a phobia for birds.
After Kenya, it was San Francisco I moved to as a young teen. Caught in a sea of valley girls and surfer boys, I amused myself by telling tall tales of my hunter-gatherer lifestyle in Africa to my new friends. They were especially eager to see me in my zebra skin robe performing my rituals of fertility. The next stop was Texas for me where here, out of all places, I developed a strong passion for Rugby. I represented my high school as a winger and it was my fellow ruggers that provided me with companionship as a teen. Their characters, however, were open to question – a vast majority ended up in prison within a year of graduating high school.
Most of my traveling was done in college and after (I was fortunate enough to land a consulting position that involved 100% travel after I graduated). It is this period that I am blogging about.
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