Welcome. If you have arrived here from the Amazon author page, or from the top of the website, you already know the basic facts: I grew up in West Germany during the Cold War, I have sold wheels for most of my working life, and I have written a novel called The Courier about a man who does the same while carrying other things across a border. This blog is where the rest of it goes. Not the novels, which have their own shelf, but the material they were made from: the trips, th