I waa bom in Waahlngtqn D.C. on January 30, 1968.1 was bom in Walter

Reed Arm/ Hospital, When I was bom,we lived in Falls Church,Virginia, I am the youngest of a family of four. 1 have one sister,Diane, who was bom on July 13, 1963, She was bom In Brussels, Belgium. 1 also have a bob and dad.

Vs all moved to Ghana.Africa.We lived In Accra, the capital of Ghana, We lived there only when I was six weeks old. While I was there, I got a bacterial infection and had to 90 to Germeny to a German hospital to get well, When I went there, I was only eight months old. When I left Germany, I went back to Ghana and stayed there until Z mas two and a half.

When I was two and a half, we went back to the states stopping at Algeria, where we went to a market and bought a rug that ws still have.

We also got in a car and drove around trying to see a oaasl and we saw -one In the distance. We went Into a nice hotel that had a waterfall in it. The lobby had an alligator pit with real alligators in it. There were a bunch of sheiks from Arabia. Wa also Stopped at Morrooo and Portugal.

We took one of the first 77a that took off from Lisbon,Portugal. Wnsn we landed, we wars in New York. Our first night there, Diane stayed up half the night so she could see color cartoons for the first time. She stayed up because she anas afraid she wouldn't get up in time to see then.

After we left Few York, we moved to Alexandria , For three years. A Icy of things happsnd while I was there. 1 fall off the barbeete end knocked ay tooth out. Second, I fell down cement stairs and got a con-cunion In ay head. Third. I rode ay trioyole doan the baaeaent stairs. Fourth, I got the auapa. While I lived in Virginia, I want to Chicago and saw a museum, and we also went to see aoaa sister. Vs lsft Chicago on a train. It was ay first train to anywhere and it was to New York.

Vs saw the Statue of Liberty, Wall etreet, we took the Staton Island Perry, 5th Avenue,Central Park, Shea stadium Park, and we rented bicycles and rode thea all over NewYorfc.

When I was four, ws bought a motor hoae and aade a lot of trips around Washington. On March of 1973* we lsft In our camper for a tour of all 50 states. It took about six waaka before we got to California.

On the say, we stopped at an awful lot of sights in a lot of states.

Vs went to Fort Meyers Beach In Florida and litteraly almost fross In the icy cold water. In Atlanta, wa stopped at a oyelorana museum and saw the west as it would be backwards. In Atlanta,we also stopped at ay cousins houas for a while.

Our aaln route waa a trail called General Shexxaona route to the aea. When ws got to Mississippi,as took a boat down the Mlaalaalppi,

We also took a road along the Klver but couldn’t at ay on the road long because the road waa flooded* Ha traveled along the Gulf Coast Trail on bad roads where hurricane Caadle hit. The roads were worae then dirt reads by a longshot.