Bill Holter:  

After highschool went to UCONN, played varsity hockey, studied finance. Worked in the brokerage industry for 23 yrs. Branch manager at AG Edwards for 12. Lived in South Texas for 17 years. Remarried, retired, moved to Costa Rica all in 2006. Play plenty of golf, try to horseback ride couple times a week. -------------------------------------- You never know what life has in store, August of '09 I found a man dead in a bar bathroom, recorded my second career hole in one, and fell 10 feet off a cliff at a restaurant and broke my back. Thank God things only come in three's! I am healing well and will be ready by Jan. to compete in the "senior" (say it isn't so!) National Costa Rican golf championships barring another lightning strike! --------------------------------------- Sept. 4, 2011...funny thing life is, I had moved back to Texas in May after nearly 5 years in Costa Rica and we bought a really great home in the "Lost Pines" area. Huge pine trees and rolling land which reminded us of "up north". We hadn't had rain at all for 3 months so everything was bone dry when the first norther of the year blew through with really heavy and dry winds. Long story short, my wife was in Austin shopping when I went outside for a smoke only to see massive smoke and fire. I got my son and 4 dogs out and 2 cars. We were not allowed back into the area for 3 days then to find our entire street was gone except fot 2 donkeys that survived in a "hearty board" A frame hut. (1,500 homes were burned) I could never in a million years believe this could happen but as the bumber sticker says "$hit happens"! So we are going forward with a bigger respect for nature, different view on life and how short it can be and positive attitudes. I have lived through the eye of 2 hurricanes, seen several tornadoes, wrecked a bunch of high hp cars, the big earthquake in Costa Rica, 12+++ ft. waves but never ever seen anything so big and overwhelming as this fire! So anyway, hopefully it'll be ...Expand for more