Islandsnow, 52

How did I get here again??? I swear I was JUST passing notes in school and checking the "I would like to hold hands sometime soon" box. Regardless of the details, here I am at a "very young" 35 trying to give you a bit of insight on what I am all about. I am a very happy, easy going, financially secure, outdoorsy, genuine "good guy" that has yet to find (or manage to hold onto) the girl of my dreams. I think I have been blessed with a great that offers incredible freedom and endless possibilities, and for this I am incredibly thankful. I come from a great family to which I am very close even though my work does not let me see them as much as I would like. Good friends, enjoyable work, and good health make most days the kind that I really enjoy waking up to. So why am I on here? I ask myself that question every time the bill comes due actually. "Why am I still paying for that again?" I never really do much with it but occasionally get on to have a "nosey" and look around. My current career as a Captain seems to preclude me from any sort of "normal" relationship and surely did not help my brief and fruitless foray into the always challenging world of matrimony a few years back. I did manage to make it out of that one alive and learned some valuable (albeit painful) lessons about myself, life, love, and what is truly important to make a relationship work. Problems you cannot solve in the early part of a relationship will not go away just because you get married. Damn that fairy tale that told us love can conquer all! I guess you could call "Home" Connecticut and I get myself back there a couple of times a year to visit family and friends, sometimes for months at a time. That being said, I have been traveling quite a bit since graduating college and have worked outside the mainland U.S. for the past 13 years or so in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Belize, Hawaii, and most recently the Marshall Islands. I love the tropics and the pursuit of the endless summer is what h