I am pastor of a small rural church near Independence, Oregon. This makes my third career. My first one was spending 22 years in the Navy and the second was as an independent information technology consultant. I am unable to travel outside the U.S. right now because of my wife's mental illness, but if I could, I would. I do travel within the U.S., mostly the western U.S. My objective before I die is to visit Europe, Israel and South America. My reason for joining this TravelBlog is to hopefully run into some old friends and to see if I can find inexpensive ways of traveling overseas. See ya around.