Jonathan Ley

I can't make it to the reunion this year, but here's my story as fast as I can tell it. I went St. Viator, then Marquette, where I got a degree in Electrical Engineering. I got a job in San Jose, California doing technical marketing at Cypress Semiconductor. I worked there for 5 years, then transferred to the Seattle, WA area.

After 7 years of working, I needed a break & to figure out what the heck I was doing with my life, so I went walkabout... I hiked the length of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1999 (goes from Mexico to Canada through the mountains of California, Oregon and Washington). I took 2000 off to goof off, and hiked the length of the Continental Divide Trail in 2001 (goes from Canada to Mexico through the Rocky Mountains). There's more about these hikes on my website - www.phlumf.com. Of course, all I figured out was that I liked long hikes... and needed money.

So, I went back to work in 2002, doing much of what I was doing before, but in the Portland, OR area. And here I still am... itching for another long hike. I got married last year to the wonderful & lovely Nancy... a native Oregonian.

I have a passion for photography, and do quite a bit of business on the side - photographing all kinds of things & people... so much so that it pretty much consumes all my time. See my other web sites for more about that.

I remember that near the end of of our 8th grade year, there was some kind of publication with predictions for everyone (some of them not without controversy!). I think mine was something like I'd "count the steps to California"... Anyway, it wasn't really that far off, as I ended up living there for some time and walked the length of the state... 3,806,880 by the way...
Ok, I guess that's not a school story, but oh well.