User:Lewis wiengart/Cap't Ziggy

Cap't Ziggy

Cap't Ziggy was born in the late fifties in southern Ohio, USA. As the son of a prominent Chemical Research Scientist he regularly relocated from project to project growing up. The family soon relocated to St. Louis Missouri and the world headquarters of the Monsanto Chemical Company (/)where his father worked as the company's Senior Research Specialist for many years. There he grow up canoeing, camping, fishing, backpacking, rappelling and exploring/mapping caves with his family as members of the Middle Mississippi Valley Caving Grotto "the MMV".  He soon acquired his dad's love for travel and adventure that still fuels his lifestyle today. His summers were spent with relatives from the flatlands of Michigan to the hollows of Kentucky and the swamps of Louisiana. In the early 70s the family relocated to Haifa Israel for a year on a UN project. There he was able to tour the country extensively including the then still occupied Sinai Desert. With the VIP status of the United Nations title the family was able to access places, people and things inaccessible by the general public.