Emoo217, 54

Chicago to Northwest Prof I'm a mixture of laid back and responsible, serious and funny. One of my favorite activities is walking or hiking in good weather but I also like to stay in, cook, read, and watch movies too. My extended family likes to do things together so we take cruises in the Baltic or hike the Grand Canyon or just go out for dancing in the evening when we're all in town. I love practical jokes, which my family is well aware (and wary) of by now.

I like to cook. I don't eat much beef or pork but I cook a really, really good rib eye roast or chateaubriand. My grandmother taught me how to make wonderful food: mashed potatoes, shepherd's pie, homemade gravy, pork loin. The rest I learned on my own: Thai curry, homemade pesto pasta, caramel apple pie. I haven't mastered Indian food yet.

A good day would be waking up to good weather and going for a walk or hike in the mountains, coming back for a beer at a local pub, then back home to cook dinner and a movie or game of backgammon, checkers, gin rummy (whatever I can win at).

I like to travel and have been to many places: Egypt, Kenya, Costa Rica, Hawaii (where I used to live), Israel, Europe, northern Europe, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. The Asian countries I visited as part of work I used to do as a forensic anthropologist with the Department of Defense recovering MIA remains.

Who I'm looking for is a kind, humorous, interesting, confident man who likes to have adventures and who is also responsible and likes what he does for a living. If you spend most time in front of the tv it probably won't work as I try to avoid time in front of the tv (I like it too much: if I start watching I don't know when/how to stop). Oh yes, and it would be good if a large friendly dog didn't upset you