My Trip
I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1968, with a bachelor's degree in sociology, after which I immediately put that degree to work by joining a rock n' roll band and hippie commune where, with my wife, we further studied the interesting facts and phenomena of human social interaction during course of a two year non-stop party which we called "The Experiment".
After that had crashed and burned, when I had at last, much the worse for wear, managed to crawl out of the smoking wreck of that marriage, I found a new wife, moved to Hollywood, and spent the next ten years writing screenplays, fixing television sets and climbing around in the rocks and trees of the San Gabriel Mountains in search of trout.
We moved north to the Sierra Nevada foothills in the region of Nevada City, where I finally managed to garner my first check from a newspaper editor who began to publish me as a columnist for his bi-weekly newspaper, and meanwhile, we learned the art of small scale placer gold mining. I published articles in *Popular Mining* magazine, sold books about gold panning technique and equipment construction, and so it went until 1990 when we got into a claim war on the Bear River which left me the choice of going through a drama such as with Rip Torn and Tantoo Cardinal in *Where the Rivers Flow North*, or moving to Arkansas to sponge off some in-laws until we could get some real jobs, for a change.
We got the jobs, worked ten years, bought and paid for a house in the northern Ozarks near the Missouri border. I have recently retired after selling my business in collectible records and books, and now devote full time to writing and music . . .
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