Bret Underdal:  

Guess I still have the travel bug, as I have been in every state in the US except Alaska, 11 of the 13 provinces on Canada, TJ Mexico, West and Unified Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, England, S Wales, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, S Korea, N Korea (- at Panmunjom - the border where the 1951 armistace was signed...when the N Koreans came into the room, I fled to the S Korean side of the room, but I did get my picture taken over there!), Japan, Kuwait, Iraq, Kurdistan. Hmmm I thought there was 1 more, but I can't remember it - Guess I am getting old ;) I have worked both blue and white collar work and have lived on the streets for 9-months (until I stopped hating myself and thinking God owed me a favor). Zig Ziglar's book, 'See You at the Top,' has had an extremely powerful influence on my life since discovering it while living on the streets (yeah bushes, cardboard and all). I become enthralled with the virtual world of the Internet and have thus become fairly proficient in both the hardware and software aspects of both PC's and Mac's (and am now exploring the vast world of Unix). I biked a half-dozen solo-century (100+) mile rides from 1993-1996 in Northern CA, ran a 30-K run in Buda, TX (2000 - I didn't run very fast, and had a finish time of 4:05:10...something about "hitting the wall," at mile marker 14), and attempted the 4-days (100 miles) marches (actually 120 miles, as it was 2.5 miles each way from Camp Heumensoord ...Expand for more