World traveler, seeker of spices, food gatherer, recipe master, San Francisco and Seattle farmer, bicycle gypsy, backpack nomad, tea whisperer, sourdough pundit, surfer, former ocean lifeguard, culinary artist, maker of crafts, vegetable artisan, mushroom mystic, soil connoisseur, and Civil Engineer who graduated from UC Berkeley Engineering, now having the career as a Water Resource Engineer/Civil Engineer. Travel, food, adventures in urban and nature . . . I have done all that. And it's a