Liam Downey spent much of his adult life in a Chicago office, staring out a grimy window at a brick wall. He walked away from that, and now lives in a small desert town in Utah where he is employed as a river guide, archaeologist, and an emergency/wilderness medicine educator. Just for fun he's also an EMT/Firefighter, swiftwater rescue technician, desert survival instructor, and published writer. His philosophies are influenced by the works of Marx – specifically, Groucho Marx.