TIM J "TJ" EMERT	ROBBIE DAVID EMERT KNOTT
TJ graduated from UC Davis in 2001 with a degree in Psychology (and a minor in "party").    He amused himself with his interesting friends in SF for a while but he  did not want to hang around waiting for graduate school and for the moribund job market to offer him something of interest.    So he hit the road and traveled through Asia for six months in 2003-2004. He was in China for a couple months with a friend.    (Ask him about the thrill of his stay in a Shanghai hospital with appendicitis!!) He was in Vietnam in December riding like crazy on a motor scooter and went SCUBA diving in Na Trang Then on to Laos and Cambodia, where life is still simple  He was in Bangkok, Thailand for the New Year. and went SCUBA diving in Ko Somui earned Advanced SCUBA cert and got in a wreck on a motor scooter and went to a wild full moon party on the beach. He spent a few days in Singapore  staying at Raffles, Mark Twain's favorite Singapore hotel After a couple weeks of playing in Australia, he went to New Zealand.	Robbie's European AdventureS Robbie was a foreign exchange student in 2004-2005, in Bourbourg, France (in the north, near Calais) .     He took the Eurostar through the Chunnel to stay with me in London for a few days in October, 2004.  We visited the Tower of London (crown jewels and cruel torture) and the Saatchi Gallery (extraordinary modern “art” installations); Robbie saw his first live theatre production (Phantom of the Opera) and had his first pint of British ale (at Princess of Wales pub); after evensong services at St. Paul’s Cathedral we saw a full moon rise over the Tower Bridge and after watching the heavily armed guards at 10 Downing Street we saw the Trooping of the Colour at the Horse Guards Parade; and at dinner late one night (Tex-Mex food at the Texas Embassy) two Beefeaters in full uniform (and armed with big spears) stopped by to eat.  Click the LONDON tab, above for photos.
←TJ went surfing in Bali in 2004 and got a huge tattoo.   Then on his honeymoon in Thailand in 2007, he spent four days with Tung, a master tattoo artist, getting it shaded and colored.     Don't ask me why, you have to ask him.	For some reason, traveling is in his genes.  After graduating from Banff High School last September, he waited until January for an extended visit to Europe.  Various sightings in Brussels, London, Berlin and Prague were reported by local authorities before he returned in June.   Robbie was 20 on October 18, 2008.   Robbie lives with his mother, Pamela (I met her in Katmandu long ago), in Banff, Canada, a little resort town nestled high in the Canadian Rockies. He is a great basketball player and, except for occasional concussions, enjoys rugby.
He got married on January 21, 2007 and he went to Thailand with his wonderful new wife, the former M. Kiara "Kia" Hay. They now live in Richmond, California, enjoying their new life together.	In September, 2008, he started studies at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia,  in Kelowna, BC, on the west slopes of the Rockies.
You can send him an email to ask him about his adventures: tim@tjemert.com	You can send him an email to ask him about his adventures: littlebear_70@hotmail.com