Born in the United States at a very early age.

Lived in Utah and Boston with my large people, Albuquerque, New Mexico long enough to learn how to spell it, joined the United States Air Force and stayed in it for enough years to know that Air Force music was 'way cool.

I made it 'way cooler because I was writing it and playing it. While doing that on buses, airplanes and such I saw lots of places I never would have seen otherwise (Hays Center, Kansas; Wall, South Dakota, Toilet Latch, Oklahoma, etc.)

Over the course of twenty-one years, I lived in Tampa; Phoenix; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; Anchorage, Alaska and Biloxi, Mississippi. I stood at attention until my knees smoked, recorded music in Hollywood, played live gigs with some really big name people, listened to uncountable numbers of colonels and generals getting drunk at the officer's club and finally had enough.

I retired to Anchorage Alaska where I now live with my Thai bride and a HUGE mortgage. To fund both of these expensive endeavors, I make maps and survey plats and other computer graphics products completely unrelated to music.

I also shovel a lot of snow in the winter, mow a lot of grass in the summer, catch the occasional forty pound king salmon in the spring and basically enjoy my life.

Supavadee was born in Jangwat Nakon Nayok, Thailand. She came to the United States in the mid 1970's.

She has a son who is a doctor, a daughter who married a doctor, a son in Thailand with two children and a grandson in Anchorage who is not yet in school but will, in all likelihood, be a doctor also. She, and now also I, have a fairly large extended family in Thailand, mostly in the Bangkok area.

I met Su in Anchorage. We have been together for ten years and married for almost six. Through her patient tuteledge and by association with the Wat Alaska Yanna Verraram. and its abbot, I've learned many things spiritual of which I previously had no ken. Supavadee intends that we retire to Thailand. Although sometimes I feel up to the challenge of learning a new language, a new culture, a new alphabet, a new set of laws, I am not sure how to learn to be comfortable at ninety plus degrees fahrenheit year round with serious humidity.

This picture was taken by Su's girlfriend in the hills just above Whittier, Alaska.

Regards, John (that Alaska guy)