Paul has been dating his wife for over 55 years. They have four children and two grandchildren. His wife has worked in hospitals and bush clinics for her whole career, doing 20 years of clinical work and 25 years in administration.

Paul has a degree in research biology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He worked for Alaska Fish and Game for less than a year before returning to trade school. He received a Master Plumber’s license and Master Gas Fitters license and became a Certified Welder and a Journeyman Pipe Fitter.

He worked building the Trans-Alaska Oil pipeline and in the Alaskan oil fields for 10 years and also dabbled in real estate with college roommates.  After selling his third of the real estate company, he and his wife built the farthest north Grade A dairy farm in North America, on 1500 acres of virgin land, 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle.  They were 100 miles from the nearest town, 38 miles from the nearest county, and generated their own electricity from a windmill.

After selling the farm, they also started a successful ice road trucking company in Fairbanks, Alaska.  They left Alaska after his father-in-law suddenly passed away and returned to New Hampshire, where he eventually sold his trucks and trailers and went to work on nuclear reactor maintenance for a couple of years.

After being dosed with more radiation than his wife was happy with, he started what became a successful plumbing company.  In 2008, a national chain purchased the company because they said they thought it was easier to buy his company than compete against him, and he “retired”.

Over the past 24 years, they have had three buses: a 1964 MCI, a 1990 Prevost, and a 2000 Prevost. For the last six years, they have lived full-time in the 2000 Prevost Country Coach conversion.