Hello all. American citizen currently living in Switzerland and moving back to California to start a new job and, hopefully, get my mom (who still lives in Alaska) to come and live with us (due to my father passing last year). Used to live in Seattle and never got around to taking this class when I was up there. Now that I'm going to be back in the SF Bay area (again) I'm looking forward to finding some piece of land in Truckee maybe and building a place where we can all go and hang out in the summer or as a base to ski from in the winter. Kind of got hooked on the whole log home idea way back when I was sixteen and floating down he Forty Mile River in Alaska as part of a Youth Conservation Corps team. You are really out in the middle of nowhere there and at one point we came around this bend in the river and there was this great log house sitting there (not some abandoned miner/hunter cabin). It always stuck in my head. Anyway, I actually don't get back to the US until the first week of April so, unfortunately, I can't take the class in March otherwise I would. Hoping they don't have the dreaded '5 years between classes' as is mentioned. That would be kind of...not good. :-)