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Howdy. I hope y'all are having a great day! A little about me: I have a B.S. and M.S. in Geography; M.A.E. in Educational Leadership (Higher Education); and I'm currently working on a Ph.D. in Geography. I absolutely love to travel as often as I can! So far, I have traveled extensively in North and South America, Western Europe, the British Isles, Asia, and the Caribbean. Check out my GeoManiaWorld website (see link above) & my geography blog at "http://geomaniaworld.blogspot.com/"
Profession: Doctoral Student and Research Assistant
Hobbies & Interests: Travel (anywhere as often as possible), hiking, weekend road trips, swimming, mountain biking, SCUBA, music, piano, organ, french horn, the symphony, Reading, Writing, Food, Eating, Dogs, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the American South, the American West, National Parklands, Languages, Cultures, Geography, Investing, Learning, Scholarship, Family, Friends, Staying up late
Favorite Books: Non-Fiction (or Fiction) that is related to Geography or Travel, travel writing (Simon Winchester, Paul Theroux, V.S. Naipaul, etc.), books about investing, National Geographic, Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling), The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck), The Jungle Books (and other Rudyard Kipling stuff), Auntie Mame / Around the World with Auntie Mame (Patrick Dennis), Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell), Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach), as well as books by Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Amy Tan, Louis L'Amour, James A. Michener, Thomas L. Friedman, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Alexander McCall Smith, Isaac Asimov, Dan Brown, James Rollins, Clive Cussler
Favorite Movies & TV Shows: Indiana Jones, James Bond, and other stuff like that where people travel around the world, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Back to the Future, Bean, Rat Race, The Count of Monte Cristo, Cutthroat Island, Anna and the King, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Romancing the Stone, My Fellow Americans, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, Torn Curtain, Auntie Mame, Gone With The Wind, Glass Bottom Boat, Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Goonies, Sister Act, Chronicles of Narnia, Sahara, The Chipmunk Adventure, classic movies, comedies, epics, adventures, etc.
Education: B.S. and M.S. in Geography. M.A.E. in Educational Leadership (Higher Education). Currenlty pursuing Ph.D. in Geography.
Associations & Clubs: Association of American Geographers; Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geography Honor Society; Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society; Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society; National Geographic Society;
Favorite Music: Everything, World Music (especially Celtic, Salsa and Tropical, Andean, Asian of all sorts, and Mediterranean), Movie Soundtracks, Jazz, Orchestral, Holst, Copland, John Williams, 60s 70s and 80s stuff, Kansas, Journey, U2, Styx, Genesis, Boston, Asia, Billy Joel, Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Keith Green, Nickel Creek, Fleetwood Mac, Steven Curtis Chapman, Sandi Patty, Michael W. Smith, and more...
I Am an Expert In: Geography, Travel, Research, Food