The author is a Chemist by schooling yet a writer by passion. He is also an avid adventurer and has spent many a year overseas working and traveling. He has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa; worked as a high school science teacher in Micronesia and as an English teacher in South Korea. He has taken two extensive motorcycle tours across Western and Eastern Europe and into Northern Africa. He spent two years as a rescue diver on a SCUBA dive boat on Catalina Island. All these experiences have given perspective to his writing. Currently, Chuck lives in Maine with his wife spending his time wishing for mild winters, endless summers and travels that will never end.