Bill Sanders

On the surface, this is the story of an Arctic-to-Cape Horn journey the presenter took with his first wife in 1970-71: rollicking stories, cultural insights, arresting vignettes around numerous bends in the road.

On a deeper level, it's a story of difficulties on many levels – and of two individuals' attempts to deal with them.

Ultimately, it's a story of human growth – and, at crucial times, the lack of it.

The presentation will include nine (mostly brief) snippets, preceded by background context when necessary.

Bill also edited Richard Orlandini's Oaxaca Letters. Rich worked throughout the Valley of Oaxaca as an archaeologist in the late 60s, and retired to Mitla in 2004. He is voracious in his interests, and the content of his letters range widely.  Bill will read three longer snippets from Rich's Letters.

Bill Sanders Bio

Bill and his wife Marci Bowman have lived at Lakeside (Chapala, Joco, Ixtlahuacán) since July 2008.  He's also lived in Oaxaca, Guatemala, Chile, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.  For five years they lived off-grid (make your own power, plow your own road) in the Colorado high country.

After his Arctic-to-Cape Horn journey, Bill went to grad school in Spanish mediaeval and Colonial Latin American history (no jobs).  So he became a librarian.  In 1984 he left the States to run a technical center in Saudi Arabia.  It required a security clearance and his future boss, concerned about his checkered background, redesigned his billet in flight.  He landed in Saudi as a technical writer and has been one ever since.  Has spoken at national and regional conferences.

Bill and Marci operate two companies:
Scribble & Count™, a technical writing, website design company run by his wife, and

BoonieLiving™, which Bill runs. BoonieLiving Press offers copy editing (all types of writing), text editing (non-fiction only), and publishing services.  BoonieLiving Press published both Bills's Crossing Borders and Orlandini's Letters.