Barry Carter:  

For the most part life has been great....It has been about the journey not the destination....After college traveled to europe for 3 months then took a position in retail management in NYC for 6 years with Federated Dept Stores. Company was sold and moved to Minneapolis to work with Target Corp Dept store division from 88 to 91. Father passed away in 86 and my mother pasted away in 90 and moved to Chicago from 91 to 01 working for Sears and Wards....had a great time there. made good friends and went thru my mid life crisis at 38. Jobs enabled me to travel to Asia and Europe frequently...great experience....in meeting people from all countries and backgrounds... As most of you know, We lost Barbara in 93. I spent the next 5 years with my head down staying focused on the job and being focused on the $. After many years of dealing with her death, I have been able to keep it in a perspective that helped me move forward. She left behind a beautiful daughter "Justina" she and I are very close. She is at Penn State as an environmental studies major. I am very proud of her. Hopefully, she will help save our planet.. being a part of the solution. During those years I was in a terrific relationship, we built a great path for the 2 of us. but like all good things it came to an end when my company in 2000 Wards filed Chapter 7 BK and I found myself on vacation not wanting to go home. So I took some time bought a sail boat and sailed for 6 months from Puerto Rico to Venezuela to Cuba to Key West. It was a great 6 months... I docked the boat in Key West for 3 years and put everything in storage and moved on the boat... What a blast..I think the looses in my life led me to this adventure. and again what a blast.... most of you dont know my father was a fisher/boate...Expand for more