What do you do when life is good and seems to be getting better all the time, but you're still not happy? What happens when your life seems to be moving in a completely wrong direction? What if changing the course of your life requires you to strip away all that you currently are for the possibility of achieving all you could possibly become? What if remaining true to yourself - to who you are as a person and to your spirit of adventure - requires you to follow your heart into the unknown without a compass or map to guide you into the future?
These were the questions I began asking myself in the winter of 1978-1979, not knowing what my future held or the direction my life should take. I didn't know what my meaning and purpose in life was, or why I was even born to live this life in the first place. All I knew at the time was I was lost and directionless again in life, in what turned out to be my desert place meant to find myself. This is the story of how I got there and the process I took to begin finding my way out again...