This autobiography offers a trip around the world and around the mind. The heart of Nigel Hey’s fast-paced story lies in its varied, thoughtful, and sometimes hilarious collection of memoirs about writing, printing, publishing, media, Native Americans, the American mountain states, world travel, and amateur theater. Hey’s life has been both enriched and at times endangered by an insatiable curiosity. In his boyhood his parents take him to a new home, touching off a semi-nomadic five years that eventually ends in the American West. Smalltown realities in an all-Mormon community teach him the lessons of being an outsider and awake a spirit of independent thought and action. After college, he heads for his first fulltime job, in Bermuda, then to England. These mark the start of a rollercoaster life in which he achieves professional success while fulfilling the responsibilities of parenthood and enduring the heartaches of two failed marriages. Throughout, he explores the vestiges of colonial Spain that survive in the mountains of the American Southwest, drives a tunnel in the remote mountains of Greece, dances with native Americans, uncovers the history of high-tech Soviet weapon science, explores his Yorkshire and Lancashire roots, while tackling the biggest question of all: Where does he really belong.