John Hayes has embraced numerous lifestyles – social worker, veterinary technician, tennis instructor, personnel manager, night watchman, library assistant, beach bum, dog trainer, wildlife photographer, professor of humanities – and his lust for life is everywhere evident in his writings. After a four-year extended road trip crisscrossing America 7-8 times coast-to-coast as a photographer, John currently lives with his German Shepherd in St. Petersburg, Florida.