OF LOVE AND EXPLORATION - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY © Christopher Earls Brennen CONTENTS Preface Author TALES Flight of the Earls Barney Robert Earls Beginning The Story of Cranagh Dhu A Carefree Playground Childhood Home Father Paula Irene School A Castle Revisited Flowers on the way to Slieve Gallion Acting Moyola Science Embroidered Cloths: First Act Balliol College Into Fluid Mechanics Post Doc Caltech Master of Student Houses: The Hard Part MOSH: Some of the Fun Railway in the Ether Moyola Revisited Canyoneering in the San Gabriels Into the Wilderness Caltech Peak Soraksan Mountain of the Devil Mt.Fuji is Closed On the Peak of the Rising Sun Mount Wilson Trail Mount Lassen Volcano Cascades of the Kern The Streeteagle Zion Narrows Salome Inheritance The Grand Teton Slemish Errigal Lake Powell Icebox On the Vomit Comet Rathlin Island Skellig Michael Huayna Picchu Eichorn Pinnacle Embroidered Cloths: Last Act Twilight Pacuare Tears Of Grace and Magic The Skywalker Karijini Grace Leaving St. Kilda Epilogue Christopher E. Brennen>