Currently i live near Kisumu Kenya. I arrived in December of 2007 in Nairobi and in a few days the country erupted in what is termed the post election violence.  Gunfire tear gas were common soldiers every where. Couldn't get to the internet for over a month. But now everybody is talking about the new constitution. Two things stand out in my mind. "Life begins at conception" right there in the constitution. Second 33% of the congress people must be women. Other than those two things it is similar to our constitution. The religious leaders are asking people to say no because abortion is allowed to save a mothers life. Anyway enough politics.

After graduating from High school I went to college, aginst the guidance counselors advice. College was a lost easier than our high school. In 1964 I gradusted from Ithaca college with a BA in Math. 

In my last year of college i suffered from viral menegitis but still finished even though i missed a month of college. And suffered from headaches for the next 15 years. The most memorable event in college was my major professor Dr. Worth told me I should take logic. To me logic was like giving a soldier a gun. I then could do things and throw away bad ideas. A very useful tool and I am ever grateful to Dr. Worth. The first A I ever received was in Vector and Tensor analysis because it was used for Einsteins theory of relativity. My  saying is that college was a great social experience but not very good at education.  Somehow the education system fails us because it does not prepare us for the real world.  Anyway that is a topic I can talk about for days.

Anyway I tried to enlist in the airforce and didn't make it and even the army said no. I have six toes and no one wanted a smart ass in the service who could count to eleven.(joke) So instead of the jungles of Vietnam I went to alaska where I watched for russian launches and sent my reports to all the intelligence agencies. I worked 12 hours a day for 360 days straight. My first real job was the hardest. Anyway I became a computer programmer and was able to indulge my self in adventure. Why because the pay was so good. At one time I was making as much as the president. Now i am a disgarded old man left to wait for his death.

So that is why Africa. I walk down the street and u would think I am JC himself. Kids stare at me ask to shake my hand. Women offer to marry after 15 minutes conversation. I go places where few Muzungoes go. (white Man) i  talk with everyone who will talk to me. I love shocking them by saying this is the best place on earth. I lived in a house in an apartment out side was mango, avocado and papaya trees.  The avacadoes were so big u needed both hands to pick them up.  The kids use to eat the mangoes when they were the size of a marble. All this fruit lay on the ground and rotted. You can grow crops 365 days a year as we were just a few miles from the equator. Hot sun during the day and rain in the afternoon. But they all want to come to america. I can't understand anyone wanting to spend there time in Ithaca freezing. 

Well my prgraming career involved working for some big companies and lot of little ones. I have worked at IBM, NCR, Sarah Lee, Airforce, Navy, NASA and the pentagon. I have had about 6 or 7 of my own companies. In otherwords I have had a lot of fun in my life. If I was after money Bill Gates would be poor. But money always gets in the way of having fun. I have developed into a strange creature I know but it has served me well. If u are interested my web site is www.mrdana.com  

Three years ago I died I fell throught the roof of my garage. Anyway the whole story is on my web site www.mrdana.com/death/

Another singular point in my life was when I took out a canoe and was alone on the amazon river in Peru.

My next challenge is to do the same on the nile river.

I vised the island of the sun on Lake titicaca Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3812 m (12500 ft) above sea level. 

Been to Paris twice. Finished going around the world on May 18th of this year.

Have a certificate to Navigate a submarine(Nuclear).

I am most grateful that my life has been full of travel and adventure.

My religious philosophy can be summed up in two sentences and is aplicable to every person on earth.

The Universe is GOD. To receive the power of GOD you must be grateful.

And to this i ascribe my life as proof that this is so.

I would implore each and everyone to come to Africa where u can make a difference.

just write me at bydana@gmail.com and I will help you in anway I can. 

Why because I am truely grateful and with that comes the resposibility to help my fellow man.