Robert A. Aird graduated from the University of Maryland with dual majors in English and sociology in 1971. A few years later, while working full time, he obtained a Master’s Degree in counseling psychology. His post graduate work brought him to Israel and the Netherlands, and soon after, he packed into his Volkswagen bus and headed to Brazil to teach English. But he didn’t get any farther than Guatemala, where he resided for a year and a half.
What Aird didn’t know while he was living in Guatemala—working on a film crew capturing the jungle of Tikal, supervising the conversion of buildings into a hotel in the town of Chichicastenango—is that he’d be nearing 50 years in the construction industry one day.