Robert Buckley is a 1968 graduate of Regis College in Denver, Colorado. He served two years in the Peace Corps in Micronesia, and returned back to the islands 13 years later with his young family in tow for a Swiss Family Robinson like adventure. His ancestors were some of the earliest pioneers to Colorado with his great grandparents emigrating to America from Ireland when Native Americans were being pushed out of Colorado at the point of a gun.