About

That snow-capped mountain up there is Mt. Baker, an active volcano in the Cascade Range. This photo was taken from 75 miles away. Photo © Lawrence I. Charters

So far, only one of us has been to: Australia, Brazil, China, Guam, Philippines, and Taiwan. But it isn't the same one.

Kathleen G. Charters and Lawrence I. Charters started life as children. Life then intervened.

Dr. Kathleen G. Charters

Kathleen served as an officer in the United States Public Health Service, working at the USPHS hospital in San Francisco, California. She then transferred to the United States Navy, and served at the U.S. Naval Hospital Bremerton, Washington, the Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, the Naval Medical Center San Diego, California, and the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, since renamed the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She was also a professor in the School of Nursing, University of Maryland-Baltimore, and as a consultant to the Department of Veteran Affairs, helping build MyHealtheVet. She then worked as a research project manager for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Military Medicine. She currently serves as an ordained Deacon in the United Methodist Church.

Lawrence I. Charters

Lawrence Charters worked for Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, Washington; the Department of History, Washington State University, teaching history; Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington, teaching computer science; Chapman College (now Chapman University), teaching history, English literature, philosophy and computer science; and Central Texas College, teaching computer science. He has also edited a newspaper and several magazines and journals. He spent most of his career working for National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as an Internet Projects Manager, building websites in support of oceanography, GPS navigation, nautical charting, tracking climate change, coastal zone management, and other sciences related to the ocean and envirnment. He presently works as a placement specialist for Pacific Northwest puffins, finding them appropriate jobs in government and industry.

Laxaynem

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Laxaynem is a 37 foot long carved canoe, created from a single 600-year old red cedar, launched in 1993. It is owned by the Jamestown S'Kallam Tribe of Sequim, Washington. Laxaynem was the seventh son of Chief Ste-Tee-Thlum the Younger and Princess T'sus-khee-nakheen of Nanaimo. Photo © Lawrence I. Charters.