HOW IT ALL BEGAN
PART FIVE
I finished my university education and taught a year of sixth grade before deciding to emigrate back to the United States
in 1979. I received my citizenship in 1984 while I was working as an assistant to a college departmental director in
Florida. After the college position, I traveled and worked in numerous positions doing social work with either non-profit
or religious agencies around the country.
In between times, I worked as a senior camp counselor in Florida, Georgia, and Maryland and also traveled around by
bicycle. During the warm months of eighty-six, eighty-seven, and
eighty-eight
, I took a 16,500 mile basically around the perimeter of the country looping through Virginia Beach, Virginia and ending
in San Antonio, Texas. After finishing up that trip, I moved up to the Pacific NW where I worked as a bookkeeper for
Catholic Social Service agency and was also on the Board of Directors and Treasurer of a thirteen church ecumenical
center.
In 1992, I traveled again across the country by bicycle from Spokane, WA. to Philadelphia, PA. What was so unusual about
this trip was that I had a traveling companion. Nestled inside a small cage in the main pocket of my handlebar bag was a
two-year old Teddy Bear Hamster named Schroeder. (You can read more about him and read a newspaper on Schroeder's own
page found on the site index).
Schroeder survived the trip quite nicely and also the Greyhound Bus trip back to Spokane. I enjoyed having him along
because he brought me a lot of laughter from the people we had met along the way. He passed away about three months after
I had moved to Portland, OR. where I had taken a position with the St. Vincent DePaul Society there.
Just Dancing for Y'SHUA
(I just had to include this for a little fun.
When I saw this on another site, it reminded me of Schroeder and all the other fur-balls that I've had.)
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