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Italy | Tuesday, November 4, 2014 | 5 photos

I’m a single father who lives most of the time with my daughter who asks questions like “Does a hollow object exert more outward pressure than a solid object?” And my son who asks questions like “Papa, when I was born did you have to sit on me for a few days to keep me warm?” I change my underwear and socks every day, love my children more than anything in the world, am horribly allergic to cats, horses and avocadoes and I love my mom. I was born and raised in Colorado but see myself one day sipping margaritas for breakfast in Central America. I once followed Paco de Lucia around Spain like a teenage groupie, walked 1500 miles across Finland, got pulled off a bus at gunpoint in Mexico, contracted an intestinal worm in Peru, swam into stinging jelly fish in the Red Sea, got into a vodka-induced arm-wrestling match with a Soviet sailor in Leningrad. I pay my rent by selling my services as a writer and wanna-be photographer. I used to make my living as an archaeologist. I can make my way along fairly well in French and Spanish and can comedic-ally stumble my way around Finnish and Swedish. I’m stubbornly idealistic, a bit absent-minded, passionately left-wing and a voracious reader.