My wife, Mary Ann and live in Colorado. We have a son and daughter. I am a former emergency physician now working part-time providing end-of-life care. My practice allows me to balance the routine of work with the excitement of travel to far-away places and exploration of different climates and cultures.
We enjoy physically challenging activites which include climbing many peaks in Colorado, hiking the Colorado Trail and skiing to 10th Mountain System huts in Colorado. I have had the same jeep for 45 years, and explored historic tracks in remote areas throughout the west and Alaska. I have traveled to every continent and many countries. I have trekked in Nepal, New Zealand, Italy and Tanzania. I have climbed Rainier, Kilimanjaro, and Mauna Loa. We have sailed in the Bay of Islands, in the British Virgin Islands and Society Islands. We have cruised along the Antarctic Penisula around South America and up the Amazon.
I find satisfaction in working with my hands. At various times I have projects constructing and demolishing that involved carpentry, plumbing, and electrical work. I look forward to improving my less than skillful techniques on this global village project.
I look forward to working with the other volunteers and hearing their stories. I look forward to living in a foreign country and sampling foods and customs unfamiliar to me. I am excited about the challenge of working in an environment unfamiliar to me. Hopefully the result will be to make the world, at least some small way, and in some small village, a little better for someone I do not know.
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