Gain wisdom and learn how to make good choices from someone who has made good and bad choices alike. The author'' s experience will save readers a lot of trouble, all while being thoroughly entertained by the breadth and unique qualities of the author'' s adventures. This adventurer''s journey to manhood is one that will inspire, challenge, and reassure everyone on the same path of life. This book will take you on an adventurist'' s journey from Vietnam hanging out of a helo with an M60 machine flying with the elite Navy Seawolves to penetrating hurricane low level and snowstorms in the northeast to hunting and tracking Russian subs off the east coast, raising a family, starting and operating a plumbing business, living off grid on a 40'' sailboat for four years, to building log cabins in the Pocono Mountains to 10 years in the jungles of Panama collecting hundreds of insects and orchids and capturing deadly snakes for the Panama University, surviving a colon blow out in the middle of night in the middle of the jungle to back to Florida fishing, gardening and treasure hunting the beaches and planning the next adventure.