(My dear wife co-authored an insightful, copyrighted e-book on Daniel and The Revelation and loved the Bible. She earned a BFA in Art History and a BS in Business Administration and held a Private Pilot license and was a top marksman. Her passion in this world was the Lord and she simply loved homeschooling our four children. Her gravestone is inscribed with a beautiful Proverb: "Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.") Home Town: Edgewood (between Seattle and Tacoma, Wa) Favorite Boondocking Locations: Off-grid on Forest Service land in southern Idaho, and off-grid in a few Washington State campgrounds. Off-grid camped in Oregon and California. Enjoy Utah Family: Ruth and I raised 4 homeschooled children. We tent camped a lot, and finally in 2017 we bought a small Jayco travel trailer which we both enjoyed sharing with our loved ones My background: Mainly aviation and I held several FAA licenses including instrument rating, flight instructor and commercial pilot (one-engine airplanes) land and sea. Taught flying in Northern Utah for many years. Towed gliders and dropped parachute jumpers too! Earned the FAA Airframe and Powerplant License and spent 10 years working as an airplane maintenance training instructor for Boeing Commercial Airplanes in their Customer Training and Flight Operations Support department out of Seattle. Worked an additional 20 years in Boeing's Propulsion Division on 737, 737 MAX, 737 Poseidon, 747, 747-8, 757, 767 and 777 models and derivatives as our group was responsible for engine development, design, support, procurement and installation, Flight Test and all repair planning that installed those engines on the production lines of at Boeing's Everett and Renton factories. You fly on these same airplanes. That's our work! Worked as a logger in SE Alaska and also worked 2 years as a Merchant Mariner for the National Ocean Survey on the Pacific Ocean from the equator to Alaska. Part time fireman in college. Past member of Alaska Loggers Association, United Auto Workers, National Maritime Union. Went to High School in Madrid, Spain and Wiesbaden, Germany and in Bourne, Massachusetts In my spare time, I try to learn more about and from the Bible. I'm grateful that it helps us plot out a course in life slightly different than Google Maps does I sell a dozen farm fresh eggs for six dollars The hens are healthy and have lots of water, food and room to roam ! Most store-purchased eggs come from hens that experience much less fun than mine do BEST DRINKING WATER IN THE UNITED STATES In 2012 Mt. View-Edgewood Water Company was voted the best-tasting water in AMERICA. In 2017 and 2018 Mt. View-Edgewood Water Company ALSO won the best tasting water competition for the South Sound subsection of the Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association. Great tasting, high quality water, at a superb value! NO CHLORINE OR FLOURIDE. The acquifer is five hundred feet under our house and it takes up to 500 years for today's rain water to work its way down there For this fresh water, YOU CAN FIND THE SPIGOT IN THE CENTER OF THE BACKYARD