Chapter 1
My family was one of fifteen attached to the US Coast and Geodetic Survey team. My dad’s job was to mark latitudes and longitudes for the nation’s mapmakers. The team needed him wherever it needed to make new maps. So, every few months, we’d pack up, hitch our trailers to the back of big government trucks, and move on to a new town so he could mark new latitudes and longitudes. Imagine a circus caravan without the elephants but with the same great sense of anticipation—new terrain to explore, a new lake or stream to swim in.
When people ask me where I’m from, I say, “Well, that’s kind of a long story”—because I grew up in trailer parks across the country, wherever my dad had to go. ...
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