To all you other Eric Brays

Sorry guys, I got to this .com first. It’s surprising how many of us Eric Brays are out there. Not such a unique combination of names it turns out. Irish last name and Scandinavian first name. My dad’s dad, Mark Stanislaus Bray, was born in a silver mining town, Dillon, Montana. His dad was born in New York, and family history has it that his father came from Clonmel, Ireland in the 1840s. My grandfather married Maren Kirstine Jensen, who had come with her family from Denmark to Gardnerville, Nevada in 1901, when she was 15.

My mom’s maiden name is Plaskett, and her father, Elmer, was born in Watsonville, California to a family that had come out to California at the time of the Gold Rush. The Plasketts had originally come to the US as Quakers back in the 1700s. My grandfather married Beatrice Hull who was the daughter of the editor of Tracy, California’s newspaper he started in 1912. The Hulls had come to California from Nebraska and before that Ohio.

I came to Kyoto in 1989, after having previously lived in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was born in Stockton, California and was known as Rick till 20 or so. I’ve lived in Davis, Lake Tahoe, Hawaii, Arcata, Bellingham and Santa Cruz. So, if in your websurfing you have stumbled on this webpage and remember me from any of those places, feel free to drop me an email at:

ericbray23@gmail.com