I’m David Williams, a recently retired 65 year-old guy, living with my wife on the central coast of California, about midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. We have always liked to travel: I lived in southern Italy for a year and a half a long time ago (and saw a lot of Europe), and as husband and wife we’ve traveled together in the US, and abroad to England, Italy, and sub-Saharan Africa. I ventured off to Tibet a few years ago, but, unfortunately, without my wife!

I spent a career as a geologist, working at various times in petroleum geology, engineering geology, and mostly hydrogeology (water below the ground). I think that whatever it was that made me interested in learning about geology, made me interested in exploring our world.

My wife and I love to cook and eat good food (of most any kind), and we do enjoy wine (a lot!). One of the best things about traveling is trying new foods, and sampling the local wine varietals.

That’s probably all you really need to hear about me. If you are walking the Camino the same time as I am, I hope our paths cross. If you’re back home, you would make my day if you contact me as the journey progresses. Thanks!

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling