Ed Croteau

Grew up in semi-rural CT and pushed through a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. Worked as a research engineer for 2 years and quit that lifestyle forever! Went off to India with a backpack and few thousand dollars. Had the proverbial mind expanding worldview change and bought some clothes and gifts cheap in India to sell in the States. Met Janet, now my wife, in Calcutta, India. We started going back to India, Nepal, Thailand, etc. together bringing back more and more stuff to sell. 18 years later we still run our business although at a much slower pace. Music, songwriting, hiking and biking fill a larger and larger portion of our days. Spending several months in Mexico in a trailer on the beach in the winter and living well in the redwoods of Santa Cruz, Northern California the rest of the year. We still return yearly to Asia to develop new lines of clothing, hats, and accessories.