Keith Van SickleKeith Van Sickle grew up in Alameda, California, the son of public school teachers. He went to college at Stanford and got his first taste of overseas life while spending a term in England. After working for several years, he backpacked around the wold before attending graduate school at Harvard, where he met his wife Val. Keith has enjoyed a long career in the high-tech industry, mostly in California. He fell in love with Europe during a five-year expat assignment in Switzerland, where he lived in a village with more cows than people. Read More Read Less