In a way, the replacement position at the University of South Dakota was another step back.

The insecurity of my employment status was beginning to take its toll on our marriage.

We packed up our VW bus and left Vermont on 12 August 1974 on the first of what would turn out to be at least a dozen transcontinental trips,

My MA thesis on the Irasburg Affair, completed in December 1971, won the Vermont Bar Association Prize, but I never collected my $50 prize.

Steffi and Trina spent the academic year 1970-1971 with me in Burlington at an apartment at 43 South Winooski Avenue, within walking distance of the UVM campus.

One of my colleagues at Lake Region Union High School was young Howard Frank Mosher,

Steffi, the baby, and I docked in New York on July 1st, 1967, almost exactly 21 years after my first arrival in New York as an eleven-year old after the war.

I met Steffi Heuss in February 1965 at a party thrown by one of the younger members of the Bismarck family studying in Berlin, to which I was invited through my Baltic connections.

In late April 1962 Tempy welcomed me back to Heidelberg sporting a beard – one that soon came off when he realized I had not followed through on my own resolution to grow a beard after New Orleans.

The year-and-a-half that I spent in America between September 1960 and April 1962, when I again departed for Germany, this time for more than five years, marked in retrospect my last attempt to pursue a half-way normal career path.