Location: California, USA

Interests: Backpacking, nature, fashion, ancient history, military history, archaeology, architecture, ships, firearms, games, a myriad of other things and of course, trans issues. ;-) I have always been and will always be trans. I struggled desperately alone with this during my early years until I finally reached a point perched on a ledge between life and death. At the penultimate moment, i looked around one last time and... chose life. Although not the idealized life that I would have wished, years fly and times change...

For those who wander as I, may you find solace in this excerpt from a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien:

"All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost"