Author: Carl A. Franson

Carl Franson was one of ten children of whom seven survived, born to hard-working, first generation immigrants. Working to make his way in life was second nature to him. He possessed an intense curiosity about life, people, and natural wonders around him. This openness comes through in his story about his life as a young man on the upper Mississippi and travels to the Far East. When he began to write about those experiences, he was in his eighties but he found himself pacing the floor, remembering details of adventures, tasting how delicious very simple foods are when you”re very hungry, appreciating the warmth and goodness of people he met along the way, appreciating the sights and sounds of the Mississippi and of the Far East. He was a good natured person who appreciated and kept a positive rather than a negative outlook about people and life, who was a realist, but who believed above all else in the fundamental power of love.