Gene Morris
Greetings from Seattle, Washington.
My name is Gene Morris and I live in West Seattle, that is somewhat of a peninsula, with the sky line of Seattle in the back ground. The water in the background is Puget Sound where the salmon come and go from the ocean and the Orca whales along with them. The scuba diving is some of the best in the world. Just south of here we have the worlds largest octapus. They are very friendly and intellengent creatures.
I am orginally from Montana, where all my family still live. I left Montana a "redneck" outdoors man, and now when I go home to visit my ranching and logging family ask my sister when her, tofu, ganola, liberal brother is coming home. I rodeoed for the University of Montana and "God Forbid" I moved on to enjoying the theater, opera, academia, and cultural events that Seattle has to offer. For the last seven years I have dog sledded the Artic Circle to the top of Anaktuvuk Pass to the last eskimo village, tracked the changing mirgration of the wolf and carabou and picked up artifacts for the University of Alaska. The Brooks Range is still rising out of it depths of the sea and sea artifacts can be found on top of the pass. My passion is long distance running and in 2011, on April 18th, I turned 65 and on that same day I ran my 6th Boston Marathon. I only mention that because my running buddy was Bob Dolphin (can be found on the web) qualified to run it and he is 85 and has run 1+ marathons a month for the last 26 years.
My name is Gene Morris and I live in West Seattle, that is somewhat of a peninsula, with the sky line of Seattle in the back ground. The water in the background is Puget Sound where the salmon come and go from the ocean and the Orca whales along with them. The scuba diving is some of the best in the world. Just south of here we have the worlds largest octapus. They are very friendly and intellengent creatures.
I am orginally from Montana, where all my family still live. I left Montana a "redneck" outdoors man, and now when I go home to visit my ranching and logging family ask my sister when her, tofu, ganola, liberal brother is coming home. I rodeoed for the University of Montana and "God Forbid" I moved on to enjoying the theater, opera, academia, and cultural events that Seattle has to offer. For the last seven years I have dog sledded the Artic Circle to the top of Anaktuvuk Pass to the last eskimo village, tracked the changing mirgration of the wolf and carabou and picked up artifacts for the University of Alaska. The Brooks Range is still rising out of it depths of the sea and sea artifacts can be found on top of the pass. My passion is long distance running and in 2011, on April 18th, I turned 65 and on that same day I ran my 6th Boston Marathon. I only mention that because my running buddy was Bob Dolphin (can be found on the web) qualified to run it and he is 85 and has run 1+ marathons a month for the last 26 years.
I retired in 2011, after 40 wonderful years as a physical therapist. Seattle offers many wonderful medical oppurtunites so I was fortunate to practice in 11 different setting, including Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center when they started bone marrow transplants. A number of "Boat Children" were wonderful patients of ours. I was in Vietnam in 1965 and returned in 2010, with some others, to peddle our bikes from Hanoi to Saigon. (Some short flights along the way) I fell in love with the country and the incredible people and the "peace" I found there.
I am really looking forward to work with all of you and look forward to a wonderful trip.
Gene, I doubt I can keep up with you, but I've done a few half-marathons and will bring along my running shoes if you need a running "partner."
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