Retired since April 2011 and with our downtown Chicago condo sold, we were homeless, or more appropriately, home free and traveling for about nine years, no RV, no home base. In 2013 and 2014 we completed our first major adventures, six months in Europe, two months in Mexico, a month in China and have crisscrossed America more than once . In 2016 we are off on our longest tour yet, 90 days in Spain and Portugal then Eastern Europe. I called this the tour of the “a” countries since most end with the letter ‘a’. These include Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. Weekly Blogs were written for each of these. Thank you for your interest in my photography and our home free adventures in retirement.
I was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos is also known as the Atomic City, home of the Manhattan Project in the “The Land of Enchantment.” As most kids, I did not fully appreciate the very special light, cultures or art that existed in the Southwest. Despite taking art and photography courses at the University of Utah, I eventually pursued a career in the corporate finance world. After thirty-eight years, we are exploring the world, home free.
My photos have appeared in Chicago Magazine, published in New Mexico Magazine and awarded several honors and awards from the Hubbard Museum in New Mexico in 2009 and the Grand Prize winner in their annual photography exhibition in 2010.
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“After a lifetime of chasing the perfect sunrise, I finally found better light on a glass slide a quarter-inch wide. I don’t invent these worlds — I just hold still long enough to notice them.”
I am very proud to announce that I was awarded 1st Place, Grand Prize for my 2013 photography portfolio in the 12th annual New Mexico Magazine Photo contest. This has been a goal of mine for numerous years. Winning this has been the thrill of my photography career.
The condo in Chicago was sold a couple years prior to our retirement date in preparation for our retirement. With the sale of my Mom’s house in New Mexico, I can finally say we are homeless, or more correctly home-free, we are ready to embark on some really big travel adventures. Since we were not experienced international travelers, we do not know what adventures were ahead of us. I can now say that we never had a truly bad experience, no pick pockets, not major illness nor accident. All of the 70+ VRBO homes we rented, turned out mostly as advertised, no scams. All in all, a great experience for us both.
Here is the New Mexico Magazine article published in February 2013.
