Where were you born?
I was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived in Williamsburg for the first 16 years of my life.
Where else have you lived?
Besides Brooklyn, I have lived on Long Island. I currently reside in a village home to a (moderately famous) prognosticating groundhog and one of the last cooperative farms on Nassau County.
My love for hiking was instilled in me as a child in the Austrian woods where I hiked with my parents on the weekends, searching for mushrooms which we then prepared with eggs for dinner. Nowadays, I do go hiking whenever possible and if it’s not possible then I “hike” the streets of New York City over the weekend–covering sometimes 10 miles or more. This means also taking advantage of the city parks.
But this time was different. I planned to trek the Inca trail that ends up directly to Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel built in the 15th century by the Incas and discovered by Hiram Bingham of Yale University in 1911 with the help of a local boy. See for more history here. Continue reading
If you lived in 1944, you would be in your 90’s today. The amount of history one would have lived through would be immense. For the 16 million who served in WWII, fewer than 500,000 American veterans of World War II are believed to be alive today according to John Long from National D-day Memorial.
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