Gary Griffin is married to his life-long traveling partner of fifty-three years, Mary Alice, and lives—along with Zeus the Chocolate Lab who guards their little ranch—in East Texas. He has worked as a field engineer for a large computer company and served as a Baptist preacher. Gary writes and blogs daily and loves the Lord above all else. His life experiences have taken him to forty-nine states and several countries and allowed him to serve as a part-time missionary in Mexico.