Steven 'Bo' Keeley
Steven Bo Keeley is an American adventurer, naturalist, holistic healer, veterinarian, professional athlete, commodity market consultant, garage publisher, and executive tour guide, who in 2000 left civilization for a desert burrow in southern California, then, in 2009, became a world-traveling expatriate.
Keeley was the second player in history to win a Professional Racquetball Tournament after Steve Serot, when he defeated Charlie Brumfield 21-8, 21-17 in the finals of the NRC Long Beach Pro Am in October 1973.
[18] He started a silent scholarship fund of personal prize money plus contributions to bring rising East Coast stars to train at the racquetball mecca, Gorham's Sports Center[19] in San Diego, California.
[20] Inducted into the NPA Hall of Fame in 2014[21] Disenchanted toward the end of his career with a faster ball and oversized racquets, Keeley, in 1978, moved to an unheated garage on Lake Lansing, Michigan, in a one year's self-experiment including not blinking for 24-hours, sitting in a homemade sensory deprivation crate, a one-week water fast, reading books upside-down and mirror writing,[22] sleep deprivation, bladder control, induced color blindness, riding a bike for 24-hours, and developing fluent ambidexterity.
He has written eight books on sport, travel, and the maverick personality, including the 2011 Keeley's Kures[25] of alternative treatments for common ailments from boxcars, veterinary medicine, and world healers,[26] while carrying on an informal e-mail practice.
In the 1980s, Keeley started traveling, leading to many exceptional experiences: He rode a boxcar from Jacksonville, Florida, to New York and borrowed a suit to dine with George Soros at the Four Seasons Restaurant.
[29] Some additional exceptional experiences include: In 1988 he guided a San Francisco Chronicle journalist to Mount Shasta for a story that won "Bay Area Best Sunday Feature".
[46] A 1997 13-country tour to identify investment opportunities in emerging markets for speculator Victor Niederhoffer earned millions in Turkey,[47] but in the Black Friday, October 27, 1997, mini-crash losses from buying Thai bank stocks that had fallen heavily in the Asian financial crisis combined with a 554-point single day decline of the Dow Index (the second largest decline to date in index history) forced the company to close its doors for a year, and The New Yorker took a swat at Keeley.
[56] Keeley earned a psychology technical degree in 1985 from Lansing Community College, followed by one year of volunteer work in six psychiatric wards and senior living facilities to study the developing mind.
'[62] He left to ride the rails, and then became an itinerant expatriate writing from select exotic locations including Iquitos, Peru,[63] San Felipe, Baja California,[64] and Lake Toba, Sumatra.
