User:Rickvaughn

Basic info
User since 2004. 

Favorite Quotations "With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." - C. S. Lewis

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." - Mark Twain

"I could never belong to any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx

"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." - Charles Dickens

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

"No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai

"Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. In fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things." - Douglas Adams

My name in other languages:


 * Russian: Рик Вон
 * Chinese: 里克佛恩
 * Korean: 릭 본
 * Japanese: リックフォン
 * Arabic: ريك فون
 * Hebrew: ריק פון
 * Hindi: रिक वॉन
 * Greek: Ρίτσαρντ Βον

Traveler and itinerant expat. Have visited the following places: Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, England, Holland, Germany, France, Belgium, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Canada, most parts of the USA including Alaska, Hawaii, Saipan, and Guam. Eventually made it back to exile in the USA. In the words of MacArthur's press guy, "I Shall Return."