Daryl Wallace:  

I suppose that my life since school has been a classic example of taking "the road less traveled." My first job offer after MSU was as assistant account exec for Young and Rubicam Advertising. That job lasted less than five minutes. After spending an hour and a half in traffic on the John Lodge expressway and then finding myself waiting for an elevator to take me to one of dozens of floors in a huge building, I asked myself, "Is this the way I want to spend the next 40 years?" The answer was a resounding 'No Way!" As soon as they welcomed me to my new job I stopped by saying "I quit." That led to various jobs on the periphery of the "ad biz;" newspapers, radio, resort and club marketing, political campaigns and of course, the circus. During the first twenty years after H.S. graduation my personal relationships changed with the same frequency as my jobs (actually, more frequently) and it was not until I met Donna Lewis in Charleston, SC that I got one to "stick." She traveled with me for years living for the most part in motor homes and occasionally in one of our houses until a trip to Costa Rica in 1992 (ostensibly to invest in a teak plantation) resulted in the purchase of several acres of mountainside, overlooking the Pacific ocean. One thing lead to another (as they so often do) until a fire in our newest motorhome left us with nothing in The States and a tremendous decision. Were we to retire in CR with insufficient resources or return to the US to try to rebuild a l...Expand for more