He has had a long association with Nepal. He attended Woodstock School in Mussoorie, north India, in the late 1960s, and first visited Nepal as a nine-year old boy with his parents in 1969. One of the things he is doing now is trying to connect with some of what he missed here at that young age. In the late 1970s he was again a student at Woodstock (where he graduated in 1978) while his parents worked with the United Mission to Nepal (UMN), giving him more time to explore this country. Following high school he attended Goshen College in Indiana, then studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He chose anthropology because he wanted a career that would bring him back to this part of the world. While he likes India (“It’s a nice place to visit”, he says), he prefers Nepal.