Me!
Born and raised in rural New Hampshire, I joined the U.S. Air Force straight out of High School and immediately took an assignment overseas. After 24 years, I gave it up, retired from the Air Force and decided to settle down in New Mexico. However, it was not long before I longed to go back overseas. Not as a tourist, but to actually live there again. That semi-nomadic lifestyle I had become accustomed to all during my adult life in the military was so ingrained in my personality and psyche that I felt out-of-place when I attempted to settle down. I realized that I thrived on an ever changing environment, new cultures, new foods, new money, and new languages. Taking routine tourist vacations would never cut it, I would never be happy sitting still again.
Fortunately, my wife Megan stumbled upon the U.S Foreign Service, and we’ve been on the road ever since. Megan joined as a Foreign Service Specialist in the Office Management field, and I accompanied her to Vienna Austria, Warsaw, Poland, and Pretoria South Africa. In 2007, I joined the Foreign Service myself and after a year in Islamabad (my choice!) I grabbed a wonderful assignment in Singapore.
I enjoy anything that makes me feel alive! My favorite pastimes (besides traveling) are skydiving, downhill skiing, SCUBA diving, caving, hiking, camping, photography, astronomy and astrophotography.
Enjoy!
Peter
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