John Gordon

Though I grew up in sedate Omaha, Nebraska, my adult life has been one of travel and excitement. My thirty-two year high-tech business career required that I travel globally and live in Germany for five years during the Cold War. While based in Europe and afterward, I ventured to scores of extraordinary and sometimes-verboten places. I took up writing as a hobby during these trips, often documenting my experiences while aboard lengthy flights. I published my first non-fiction book, appropriately titled OVER SEAS, in 1991.

In the year 2000, I retired from my role as Vice-President, Human Resources for a large corporation, allowing more time for writing and travel. Nine years before tensions with Cuba abated, I organized the first senior men's softball team to visit and compete in Havana, Cuba. In 2014, my son Christopher and I toured Beijing, China and North Korea. Christopher and I then traveled to Vladivostok, Russia and Seoul, South Korea (and again into North Korea, briefly) early in 2017. The next year, sons Christopher, Roger, Brett, and I toured Kiev (Ukraine), Chernobyl, and Moscow, Russia together. (These trips are chronicled in the BLOG section of my web page: johngordon.org) On a regular basis, we charter boats in the Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands.

My journeys and life experiences have put me in many unusual circumstances, and the ability to write about them had been a blessing. However, I am most thankful for good health and the love of my family--wife Julie, five wonderful adult children, and two adorable grandsons. Julie and I split time between the San Francisco (CA) Peninsula and Key Largo, Florida.

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