Christopher Miller grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and later lived in Mill Valley and the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco. At age twenty-eight, he returned to the world, worked as a bank manager, and operated a mortgage company before he retired in 1996. For 16 years he lived in semi seclusion on an acreage in an UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve on Lake Huron. Today, Christopher resides with his wife in Victoria BC Canada.