{"id":82,"date":"2024-10-02T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:50:06","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"82\" class=\"elementor elementor-82\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f69f286 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f69f286\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a76435 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8a76435\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the Author<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bce529 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4bce529\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7377eb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c7377eb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aafe921 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"aafe921\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/author-img-677x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-216\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/author-img-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/author-img-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/author-img-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demoweblink.com\/roger-brown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/author-img.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b118647 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b118647\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f23156d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f23156d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Author Roger D. Brown<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6a9f66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a6a9f66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hodophile \u2013 Author\n<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c719431 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c719431\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Roger Brown began his driving career at 11, driving a truck, pulling a hay wagon while three men, including my father, loaded baled hay on a 160-acre ranch in Banning, CA. Picked cotton two seasons starting at 12. Next driving job at 15 delivering sand, gravel, and building supplies with a dump truck in Topanga Canyon. It was larger 18-wheel rigs moving livestock, logs, locomotives, and heavy equipment, including rigs with 9-axles and 120 ft. in length. Cleaning up railroad train wrecks brought me to equipment operating, including 100-ton cranes. I fought forest and wildland fires during 55 years operating dozers and excavators. Worked as a diesel mechanic for several trucking companies and offshore oil drilling platforms\u2014packed mules for three seasons in the National Parks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b7272c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5b7272c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">More About Author Roger Brown\n<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83e36a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"83e36a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Travel was instigated at an early age; by 19, I had been to forty-seven states and four foreign countries. At 53 took early retirement, bought an ocean blue water sailboat, and set out on an epic voyage for the past 28 years.<\/p><p>In between all of this designed and built timber homes in the California Sierras, and the blacksmith work and designed and built straw bale homes in Central Mexico and built roads in the jungle along the Mexican Coast. Currently, I have published my new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/travelerfromthepast.com\/product\/traveler-from-the-past\/\">Traveler from the Past\u201d<\/a>. Read this book to experience my traveling and life experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Author Author Roger D. Brown Hodophile \u2013 Author Roger Brown began his driving career at 11, driving a truck, pulling a hay wagon while three men, including my father, loaded baled hay on a 160-acre ranch in Banning, CA. 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