Hi MamaLiberty,
Thanks for the invitation to post more about us!
We are both 40'ish and have two daughters, who may or may not come with us. Both are from my previous marriage, and one is old enough to likely not want to come, but rather stay in Utah. The other (8-yrs) will likely continue on with the 50/50 visitation.
Victoria is a CPA and currently is a partner in an auditing firm that deals with non-profit organizations. However, she is having a hard time staying motivated in the financial sector as so much bullshit is going on with banks, governments, scandals, etc. She's not sure what is next, but she is super-smart with an MBA and 15 yrs related experience. She does incredible at whatever she puts her mind to. I'll let her post more about herself if she wants to later.
I am a Design Architect, and also own my own business. My experience of 15 years is primarily with residential construction, but enough commercial to know my way around it. Check me out at www.utahdrafting.com if interested. The pop of the housing bubble has crippled the Salt Lake architecture industry and left us with a lot of expensive, free time on our hands, if you know what I mean. I also have just enough experience with Mechanical Design via a small contract with Cobra Firearms to know that I would LOOOOVE to do that full time... if I just had the opportunity... sigh...
I'm an awesome cook -- don't mind if I brag! Hopefully I can prove it to some of you someday! We very much enjoy rough camping, and hiking. We've climbed many 12,000' peaks and our first +14,000' (Kings, in Utah) this summer. We're moderately athletic, but also like to read compelling stuff (Heinlein, Royce (Boston), Rand, etc). We're probably much less "Libertarian" than we are just plain apolitically laissez-faire. We are not religious, and rarely get along well with preachy people. We have a pop-up trailer that we drag out into the middle of nowhere with the Wrangler and camp for a few days here and there in the warmer months. I also have a small (and I mean one corner of the garage) work shop and am pretty handy at making 'whatever' out of 'whatever'.
I love to shoot, and have a small collection of firearms. I do a fairly consistent 4MOA at 100 yards with my SKS when it isn't 20-degree's outside anyway :-) I'm hoping to push that out to 500 yards this summer. I haven't gotten into reloading yet because I haven't needed to, though I recognize that the time may be near. Until reloads are dramatically less expensive than new, it's tough to justify the start-up costs.
Well, as much as I love to talk about myself, that's probably more than enough for now!
Take care!
