A magazine editor and writer, I live in Maine with my wife and sons and our family dog, a black lab who is always on the wrong side of the door! Our house is a stone's throw from the ocean. When the mist rolls in or on snowy winter nights, we can hear the fog horns from three lighthouses bleating their warnings. I teach celestial navigation both ashore and on tall ships, have made some short films and am an offshore sailor with thousands of ocean miles. But the greatest adventure for me is between the ears. Writing and reading a good story is great fun. My Perry Helion thriller series ranges from the Minuteman nuclear missile bases of the Great Plains to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Perry stops a doomsday computer virus in The SHIVA Compression and battles a murderous crew intent on environmental devastation in the upcoming The Atlas Fracture. Who knows where Perry will find himself next? My humorous historical fiction romp, George in London, is a different sort of adventure. It was prompted by reading a short item that George Washington only left North America once in his life. He made a single visit to Barbados with his brother, Lawrence who suffered from what 18th century medicine called consumption, but what we know as tuberculosis. After their month stay, George and Lawrence returned to Virginia. George would never again leave American soil. But maybe history missed a few pieces of George's life? What if a young, ambitious George had traveled to London to seek his fortune? What an adventure that would be!