M. Bryce Ternet

I was born in the American Midwest. While I appreciate the stable middle-America upbringing, I couldn’t wait to get out into the world. I finished high school a year early and spent my senior year as an exchange student in the French Basque Country, finding myself, learning French, and becoming entranced with Basque culture. I followed this act with college in Montana, a little more time in France (Paris mostly), then moved to Washington, DC and spent five years getting burnt-out in a high-profile federal government position which had me traveling throughout West Africa while I tacked on more trips to Europe.

Graduate school on California’s Monterey Peninsula was escape from the East Coast. Grad school turned into ten years in California, wi

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