Lonesome’s Comments (group member since Oct 18, 2016)

Lonesome’s comments from the Bookish Bobcats group.

I hope you like my books as much as I did writing them.

Lee

Lee HunnicuttThe TravelersThe Travelers: Book 2[book:

Cassandra, I've just published my second book "The Travelers, Book 2" on Amazon.

I hope you read both books and let me know what you think.

Did you graduate and are you teaching?

Did you check out the DODEA web site?

All the Best,

Lee

Hi Cassandra, I'm Lee. I'm a retired programmer/analyst who grew up and worked in the Panama Canal Zone. I spent three years in the Army in the 8th Special Forces Airborne as a demolitionist in an A Team.

After the Army I graduated Texas A&M in 1967. I returned to the Canal Zone where I apprenticed as a programmer.

My wife and I retired in New Braunfels, Texas.

I am an avid reader. I read histories, biographies and science fiction. I published a book on kindle called The Travelers. It starts off in the 1970s Canal Zone and ends up in 1870 Colorado. The strong characters are female.

I recommended James Clavell's Shogun to Kandra. It is about a 16th century Englishman ship wrecked in Japan. It is a tremendous adventure and love story. I believe you can find it in the half price book store in San Marcos. I have read it twice and it was made into a mini series.

If you are an adventurous spirit, look into the Dept of Defense Dependent Schools. These schools teach the children of GIs overseas. They pay well and are all over the world, Germany England, Italy to name a few. Look up DODDS on the Internet.

Lee

PS DODDS is now DODEA. Here is a link:

http://www.dodea.edu

It is a great organization for teachers who want the adventure of living in another country.

Lee

I am an internationally unknown author who has written my first book. I live in Texas near San marcos and I am not a Bobcat. I graduated Texas A&M.

When I was eight years old my parents moved from Marlin, Texas to Panama and worked for the Panama Canal Company. The Canal Zone was a ten by fifty mile strip of land that was owned by the US government. It had US schools, courts, police and hospitals. It was a small piece of the US carved out of the jungles of Panama.
It was a tropical paradise and as a kid, it was a magical place in which to grow up. When I wasn't in school I was either swimming, skin diving, fishing or in the jungle panning for gold and exploring.
Panama is the home of the shortest Indians in all of the Americas. At one time, Panama had a race of seven foot tall Indians. The first Indians came to Panama ten thousand years ago, so graves and burial caves abound.
Slaves were brought over from Africa by the Spanish. Many of the slaves escaped into the jungle and fought the Spanish with a fierce hatred. They eventually mated with both the Indians and Spanish and were called the Cimarrons. Many of them still live in the almost impenetrable jungles of Panama’s Darien Province where they practice the dark arts of a mixture of voodoo and black magic.
The Darien Indians have their own magic which is quite amazing and baffling. I don’t have time to go into it now, but the ceremony for choosing a shaman could wow audiences on the stages of Las Vegas.
My first book, The Travelers, begins with some of this Indian magic. Who is to say that these amazing Indians knew things that we have yet to learn?
I had the privilege to grow up in this wonderful place and I want to share some of this magic with you in my book.

I hope to be an active member of this discussion group and share my book experiences with the group.

My avatar is the famous cartoonist Al Cap's character Lonesome Polecat.