Joseph Keithson is two persons.  No, he doesn't have Dissociative Personality Disorder, but he does live two separate lives.  In the one, after a career in Biotechnology he retired to his home overlooking the ocean in a sparsely populated region of the Pacific Northwest.  He is desperately trying to finish the house, which likely will not happen.  When not working on the house, Joseph enjoys hiking and sitting on his deck watching for Orcas, Bald Eagles or hummingbirds.  Watching the hummingbirds come to his feeder is lots more fun than streaming video.  

His alter ego lives with his wife in a south-central China city in an apartment on the 19th floor of building 13 in a complex of 25 buildings, each with 25 stories and 5 apartments on each floor.  Ten thousand people, give or take, live in the community.  As there is no house to work on, China Joseph writes, edits and proofreads, takes long walks with his wife and enjoys truly authentic Chinese food.  Living in a foreign country, one learns to be nonjudgemental, that people do things differently and it works for them, so no one has all the answers.

In the one life, it is a 25-mile drive to town to buy food and you better not forget anything.  In the other, everything is within walking distance and there are street vendors at the entrance to the residential complex until late at night in case you get hungry.  Somehow, Joseph enjoys both lifestyles and he doesn't know why.  It is possible that personality conversion can occur on airplanes in long flights over the Pacific.