Gabe and I traveled around the world contacting possible students for Saint Mary's College of California. We were able to have prolonged visit to the fantastic culture of Papua New Guinea, the wonders of Australia and New Zealand. the "forbidden to casual visitors" Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, experience Etheopian Mengistu's atrocities,, a magnificent safari in Kenya, and ended up in the West Coast of Africa and South America. This was a trip of 7 months with much work and a great deal fun.