Personal journey thru Central Asia Sinkiang Province, China; Hunza Valley, Pakistan Wakhan Corridor.

Allen is the immediate past president of the RC of Marin Evening.  He retired from 40 years of service with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture where he worked in the Food and Nutrition Service, overseeing the operations of the Food Stamp Program, the School Lunch Program and the Supplemental Food for Women, Infants and Children Program in the western U.S. and the Pacific.  Allen was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal working with farmers promoting the Green Revolution after finishing at Harvard.  Allen was born and raised in NYC.