Chapter 23- Doing Things For People
Dune bashing in the desert. My British expat friend Bill took Stephen and me out to the inland sea in Qatar to go dune bashing when Stephen was visiting. I had gone out previously with Bill before Stephen came out to visit a few times. Doha city center in background driving back to town from […]
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Chapter 21- Learning Through Experience, Not Theory
This is a photograph of Mario Andretti in the Las Vegas Grand Prix, where Travis and I were in the driver’s meeting before the race, somehow…. After the drivers pre-race meeting we went to our seats, which is the location I went out onto the race course to set up my tripod right off of […]
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Chapter 20 – Taking Action Before You Feel Ready
LIVING AND WORKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST Supercar dealership in Doha, Qatar. Kids dressed in traditional Qatari clothing, celebrating Qatar’s National Day. The kids were going through our office building to show everybody. As I recall, ‘kids being kids everywhere in the world‘, the kids didn’t look too thrilled about getting dragged around by a […]
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Chapter 19 – Doing Things Because You Want to
This is the Ferrari 308 GTS that I surprised Travis with when I showed up to pick Travis up at Orange County Airport, telling him to meet me at the curb, and later drove to the Long Beach Grand Prix that weekend. Travis sitting in the Ferrari. 16 year old Travis at the old Paul […]
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Chapter 17 – Knowing When to Step In — And When to Steo Out
Here’s a picture of the beast, the Great Dane named Roman that Travis surprised me with on my return from a business trip. Of course, when I asked, “Who’s going to take care of him?” you get the stock answer, “Oh, I will,” the same answer every parent has heard when asking that same question […]
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