I was seventeen, and adventure beckoned...I left my childhood home in Modesto, California, and caught up with a mudshow, a traditional circus under the big top, in Grants Pass, Oregon. I kept the dream alive through Clown College and two years with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Then I had a more normal life for a young person: college, job, apartment, etc. However, I was never completely cured of circus fever and made efforts...