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For those who don't know me, I and my wife Janet have been Innkeepers at the Fox Hill Inn, located in Troutdale,VA at 3200' in the mountains of SW Virginia. Recently we have relocated and will be moving into new careers.
I grew up in Beverly Shores, IN close to the
Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan
and went to H.S. in
Michigan City, IN
where I ran Track and Cross Country and was selected thru the Indiana
University Honors Program for H.S. Students to spend
the summer of my Junior year
living with a German family in
Krefeld, Germany.
That adventure led me to
Indiana University
and a degree in German, which I later used to teach H.S. German in
the early 70's in Laporte, IN. It was during my early years of teaching
that I met Janet who turned out to be the sister of one of
my teammates on my baseball team as a kid. We've been married for
26 years as of this past June and still going strong! Tiring of the pressures of
teaching, I moved into the Transportation
world (hardly going to a rest home!),finally settling down in Atlanta for some 10 years, 7 of which were spent
as an Operations Manager with
Ryder Integrated Logistics .
I also get into eating (byproduct of my Appalachian Trail experience), so I
enjoy experimenting with different kinds of bread in my
Zojirushi
(that's really the name!)bread machine and while I'm waiting for the
finished product, I'm usually busy hacking around on my computer or working out on my
Nordic Trac so that I can eat one more slice of that bread! And if I'm
still hungry, well there's always
Mom's Mighty Fine Blueberry Cobbler
and you had better not miss this, cause it is tasty and then some!
Something all you Yankees should learn about or stay forever uneducated.
Enjoy the site, check out my favorite links and keep coming back to
see what else I've managed to manufacture out of thin air! 
My hobbies are photography,computing,and backpacking. (That's me climbing Killington in Vermont). Check out some of our slides on this site of the thru-hike my wife and I attempted in 1995 of the Appalachian Trail
(after dumping our jobs!). I say attempted, because I broke my ankle coming
out of Vermont after hiking all the way from GA! We completed PA and MD in June of 1997 (a section we had jumped in '95) and finished all but the last 40 miles of New Hampshire on a 2 1/2 week hike during August of '97. Maine will hopefully come in the not too distant future as Janet developed a stress fracture in her ankle during the New Hampshire hike and we had to forgo Katahdin for another year - but we'll make it yet!
Cool Sites - Check back here often! (Always surfing for something New!)
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