My favorite memories of SMHS

Being part of the concession stand at the basketball games

Loving and watching the football games

Ms. Fenner in English 

Mr. Murphy for Chemistry 

Hating Poly Science (the nerve of them calling it science!

After SMHS

Hard to tell my life story without making a book out of it. I have led a very unconventional life. After high school I flunked out of UCSB in 1 1/2 years, joined the Navy, was a Frogman (now Seals) two Mediterranean Cruises, quit that.  

I got GI Bill, graduated from Humbolt State College, Ca. in Wildlife Management.

During college I worked six summers as a Smokejumper in Redmond, Oregon and Fairbanks, Alaska. I can't believe how cheap it was to live at that time, between 1975 and 1982.

 

I never used my degree, instead worked on the Alaska Pipeline as a laborer and made enough money in 1976 and 1978 to buy land and build a house near Taos, NM.

Thereafter I became a carpenter, worked for other contractors and built a series of houses that I lived in for a time, then sold. These were all on the same chunk of land; subdividing them. I also built a house in Arizona and did a huge renovation on a house I bought in British Columbia, then sold five years later.

 

I am living in a Timber frame house I built just three years ago, retired and happy. I love to travel to New Zealand, diving trips, to my second house in Arizona, trips around the west. I have had plenty of adventures, no children, although I was married and divorced twice. Plenty of time to build several houses for myself and now lots of freedom. I am happier and more fit than I have ever been.