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About Vince A short bio of Vince Lombardi, founder of: OffGridWinchester.com, Abram's Creek Lodge & Family Campground, & AffordableMassage.com Vince Cell: 703-328-1840    e-mail: vlombardi2003@msn.com

About AffordableMassage

Vince founded AffordableMassage.com in late Spring of 2001 ( www.affordablemassage.com). Vince believed from the very beginning that massage should be accessible to the masses through an affordable bodywork business model and has offered affordable bodywork ever since (11 years plus). In 2002, Vince held a faculty position at the Virginia Learning Institute School of Massage Therapy in Falls Church, VA where he taught the entire 500-hour professional massage therapy certifcation course (both hands on (practical) and anatomy and physiology). He left VLI to pursue teaching his own classes and to better serve his massage therapy clients with extended hours. In over 10 years, Vince has given massage to thousands of clients in more than 5 business locations including Bally Total Fitness Health Clubs (Alexandria, VA , Washington DC), LifeStyle Fitness Center (Keyser, WV), and a mini-mall location in Falls Church (Build America at Skyline). In more recent years, Vince has worked out of a studio in Alexandria, a studio in the historic district in Winchester, and out of his home in Capon Bridge, WV.


Vince's Personal Interests

Vince's personal pursuits include hiking, walking, camping, most anything outdoors, world travel, meditation, exercising creativity, spiritual community, family and extended family time, as well as an occaisional banjo picker. Vince lives a life that is totally drug free (not even over the counter), alcohol free, smoke free, and meat free. These life choices are all conciously made out of respect for the body and mind, not due to some previous addiction.

Vince's has a very multi-cultural background which stems from having traveled the world extensively including to several places in the Middle East (Jordan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates), parts of South Asia (India, Nepal), Europe, Central America (Costa Rica, Mexico) and the whole USA. His favorite places at home are the desert Southwest, West Virginia and Maine. Vince spent nearly a year of his life in India pursueing both academic and spiritual interests as well.


About Off Grid Winchester

Vince created a website entitled Off Grid Winchester primarily as an outlet for his beliefs in independant living as well as to educate the value of renewable energy in this endeavor. Vince is now teaching workshops in Solar Power for Homeowners at a location in Berryville, VA just east of Winchester.
Details and workshop info. at: www.OffGridWinchester.com


About Abram's Creek Lodge & Family Campground

Seeking a peaceful retreat and venue for his massage therapy practice, Vince purchased undeveloped land in July 2004 with a vision for Abram's Creek Retreat and Campground. He then carefully developed a retreat and campground in harmony with nature, along 3/5 mile of wild & wonderful white water stream front. The retreat and campground included 40 forested campsites, weekend workshops, a sweat lodge, 10 cabins and 2 native American style tipi rentals, an outdoor commercial kitchen, a large geodesic dome for workshops, and a 6 bedroom stone Lodge House and additional 2 bedroom cottage house.

The retreat property included great gravel roads, walking trails, and magnificent moss and lichen covered boulders, ferns, and wild flowers along the creek provided by mother nature. Vince finally sold the campground to an eco-minded purchaser on January 31, 2011, after 6 1/2 years of develpoment.
Click on www.abramscreek.com for more on the camp and it's new stewardship.


About Buffalo Gap Camp

Vince was also the Manager of a large music / cultural / public camp for a year called Buffalo Gap Camp www.buffalogapcamp.com , located in Capon Bridge, WV and now defunct. The camp was a festival venue, cultural camp, kid's camp, retreat, concert venue, and much more with great facilities and amenities. The largest event hosted under Vince's management was SpaghettiFest, a festival of 40 bands and over 2,000 attendees.


Vince's Education and past Employment

Vince also has both a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering from Virginia Tech. Vince worked for a handful of companies over his former 11 year engineering career including Boeing Defense and Space, Boeing Helicopters, General Electric Large Commercial Jet Engines, Newport News Shipbuiding, and Verizon Communications.


Vince's Values

Vince is vegetarian and socially conscious. He spends his earned income in an educated and socially conscious way as best he can. He has great concerns about the damage to our planet and it's environment that is being caused by 7+ billion people and unconcious and short sighted development. He is concerned about the escalating cycles of war on our planet and the growing gap between the Have's and Have Nots as well as the lack of good education missing from the lives of billions. He is concerned about the increasing violence that we expose our children and families to and the numbness towards violence that our children are adapting to. He is concerned about a lack of family planning by billions and the millions of unwanted babies that are being produced on our planet annually.

He is especially concerned about U.S. and European economic collapse from massive government debt, greedy bankers, wall street exec's, energy exec.'s, pharmaceutical exec's, fortune 500 companies, Unhealthy Agriculture and Livestock practices, and Media Moghuls that are destroying the social, health, and financial safety nets affecting the lives of hundreds of millions globally and at home.

Vince accepts and believes in all religions and loving spiritual doctrines. Vince believes in love, charity, compassion, honesty, openness, and transparency (H.O.T.) as the guiding principle in all affairs and in all choices.
His motto is: You must be the change you wish to see in the world -- thank-you Mahatma Gandhi for your inspirations.