<p>Beginning with childhood games and antics David Byxby's retrospectives includes his thirty-year career as a pilot family man and curmudgeon. His memories include sketches of the people with whom he shares adventures: a British archeologist a Danish military pilot a Swiss adventurer (whom he marries) a Romanian eccentric of dubious antecedents and a German run-away lost and bewildered in the Western Pacific. Byx raises a daughter and maintains a long-distance relationship with his wife and son. Haunted by missteps and failures he suffers through a compilation of regrets.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>