(Late 70's) Wikipedia defines Gap Year (typically in the career world) as a year when one stops their formal work life to pursue other interests. Some of us know it as sabbatical year. My Gap Year had no definition or any intention of being a yearlong journey and a life changing experience. I had no idea I would end up in Kathmandu or sick with hepatitis in the remote town of Kag Beni. My initial plan was simple, lead the bike trip, bicycle to a language school in Austria, wait for the love of my life (or so I thought) and bicycle off into the sunset with him. Throughout the 70’s I led bicycle tours across the United States as well as Europe. A decade later I found … [Read more...] about Gap Year
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Younger Years Living in a Brooklyn tenement building as a child didn’t provide me with much opportunity to enjoy the outside world. The neighborhood around us was not conducive to allowing a child to wander about, so my first years were primarily indoors. It wasn’t until I was about 4 or 5 that I realized there was a beautiful world out there. My parents decided to take up car camping in an effort to take inexpensive family trips to the country. And so I was first introduced to sleeping on the ground (initially we slept on top of newspaper and threw a blanket or two on top of us). It was great being under canvass with the entire family, and starting to appreciate nature. We … [Read more...] about About Me