Home has been several places over the last 48 years, it is currently the tiny town of Torrey in South Central Utah which is definitely the best place I have lived.
Homes
The red names are places where I have lived, I was born in Luton, England and moved to Concord, California in 1979 (via Wichita, Kansas which I never considered home). I spent 22 years in the San Francisco East Bay, mostly in Concord but with shorter times in Martinez and Pittsburgh. In 1990 I quit my job to go motorcycle touring in Europe and due to various unexpected circumstances I ended up taking a job in Heidelberg, Germany. I stayed there for about 7 months before returning to California. When I originally moved to California in 1979 I had wanted to go to San Diego but was persuaded otherwise, so when, in 2002, my employer offered to transfer me to the office down there I took the chance. Unfortunately (maybe) that job only lasted two years before they shut us down. I took the next year off and traveled, along the way stopping in Torrey and having a vision that it was the place I should live. So far, as of September 2007, it is working out well.
| Luton | Concord | Heidelberg | Fallbrook | Torrey |
The Big Trips
The green lines represent the major motorcycle trips I have taken, I've ridden a lot more than is shown by these lines, over 440,000 miles so far. The blue line is a car trip I took which I wish I had done on a bike instead.
| Alaska '87 | Europe '90 | USA '97 | South America '01 | USA '03 |
Some of my other trips are documented on my Travel pages.