Dave – Lighter Stuff
Former Occupations:
- Soldier
- Computer Systems Developer
- Product Analyst
- Management Consultant
- Teacher (in grad school, and corp training)
Cities I've Lived (first to last):
- Chicago suburbs (Elk Grove Village)
- Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
- Blackpool, England
- Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
- Ft. Benning, Georgia
- Washington, DC
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Detroit, Michigan (Southfield, actually: Ten Mile & Telegraph)
- Dallas, Texas
- Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Manama, Bahrain
- Boulder, Colorado
- Denver, Colorado
- Coming soon, hopefully: NYC
Favorite Places I've Been (first to close-to-first):
- Vietnam (everything I saw: Hanoi, Hue, Saigon, Da Nang and trekking inland)
- Kulu Valley, India (Himachal Pradesh)
- Chiang Mai province, Thailand
- Fes el-Bali, Morocco
- Cairo (though I didn't get it till the second time)
- Scotland (including and especially the scuzzy parts around Glasgow)
- Prague
- St. Petersburg
- Mt. Chirripo (The summit of the continental divide in Costa Rica. Spectacular.)
- Manhattan
- Paris
- The cabin we built in Upper Michigan
Itching to Visit:
- Nepal
- Cambodia
- Kenya
- Indonesia
- Alaska
- Amazon
- China
- Sydney
Where I Work (my writing studio):
Other Places to Find Me:
Inspirations:
- J. D. Salinger
- Warren Zevon
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Laurie Anderson
- Denis Johnson
- Paul Bowles
- Harper Lee
- Randy Newman
- Ang Lee
- Truman Capote
- Ken Kesey
- Patti Smith
- David Lynch
- Gore Vidal
- Graham Parker
- Tom Wolfe
- Rickie Lee Jones
- William Faulkner
- Neil Young
- Brian Eno
- Lucia Berlin
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