After obtaining a degree in physics and a year of graduate school, the path to an interesting and profitable lifestyle was not clear. After working in Dallas for three years at sweatshops, the future was further obscured. Quite by accident the author was introduced to a very lucrative and interesting overseas work assignment. The die was now cast with a series of lucrative and unusual overseas and stateside work assignments. In the process many unusual and strange situations arose. Information that is not general knowledge was obtained including the relationship between men and women in the rest of the world, a technique for producing a long and healthy life which approaches the fountain of youth, and almost magical yoga techniques unknown to many yoga instructors.