Book excerpt: My life story began in 1915 and here it is ninety-four incredible years later. Sixty-seven of these years have been the story of Pegs and my life together. A most successful partnership! Our life has been unique in that together we have enjoyed an unusual panoply of adventures and excitement in exotic areas around the globe during some of the more turbulent and historical periods of the modern world. For us to have been a small, active participant, we are surely blessed.