I was brought up on Long Island but got the travel bug early. My guiding life started when I was living in Israel at age 18. I graduated from Tufts University in Boston with a BA in Early Childhood Development but was more interested in running the freeform radio station and spending a semester in Nigeria trying to meet Fela Kuti. Later back in NYC after college I had a horse and buggy gig for a year touring around Central Park. Before walking across the country for peace in 1986, I worked in marketing for Rounder Records and started hanging out in jazz clubs, starting a lifelong habit. I escaped business life in NYC to live on a houseboat in Sausalito for 6 years where I began my life as an ITMI accredited OTR and camping tour guide across the US and the rest of the Americas. Settling back in NYC, I eventually settled down for good and have a wonderful family and home in Astoria for 20 years now – all the while keeping my hand in the jazz world as the owner of Big Apple Jazz Tours.
I want to be quoted so badly, I'm liable to say anything.
