ml> spoke english but that is a joke... i did, speak them but at the same
 ml> time i learned and was speaking english... i used to go to market with
 ml> my mother and translate for her... all that went into hell's handcart
 ml> once we were stationed back in the states... ahh, the life of a navy
 ml> brat O:) 

 DC> Well, that explains why you travelled around so much.  

well, kinda maybe... all _my_ traveling was done when i was in my 20's
after the divorce and the military... call it a form of self preservation
and soul seeking... one really learns what one can do when one has only
one's self to rely on and the land around one... i was never a
"grizzly adams" but i lived more than my share in the
"outback"...

i've started on a partial story of that period of time... dunno how far
i'll go with it, though...

)\/(ark