Date men from United States / California / Hidden Meadows, 56 year old

Date someone special from Hidden Meadows, United States. I am primarily an academic, although I have an additional profession as an attorney. I like good conversation and quiet times at home, but I am also active, enjoying tennis, travel, working on my own cars and bikes, and going to concerts, lectures, and the like. I am an avid reader, devouring the newspaper most mornings, and am therefore ready to discuss the latest political outrage. But I also enjoy the classics, everything from Homer to Shakespeare through Camus. I was fortunate to have the opportunity as a grad student to teach in the Revelle Humanities program at UCSD, where we were tasked with learning the "great books" sequence and passing it on to our students. Does it get any better than this?: Paid to learn poetry, art, drama, history, literature, and philosophy.
Aesthetically, I can spend a day at a museum, (the Getty is a favorite), or attend a concert or play, especially if we go out for coffee and desert thereafter and share our impressions about the performance. Conversely, I still get choked up at the end of the Parent Trap or Sleepless in Seattle. I love the beauty of nature and took my son on numerous camping trips throughout the West. We even made a trek up the coast to Banff and Lake Louise, Canada in a VW camper van. A walk through a forest, quietly, hand in hand, is a romantic ideal.
Activitywise, I have been called a tennis fanatic. I've tried and liked whitewater rafting, ziplining, jet-skiing, and parasailing, but haven't returned to them. I am much more serious about the fact that this is the first century in which an ordinary guy can fulfill Icarus' dream, so I earned my pilot's license (before I turned 50.) It also makes for extended range weekend getaways. When I am in the tropics, I like to snorkel.
My ideal match would be well-educated, have a good sense of humor, be fun-loving, even adventurous. Someone who values companionship, not only for the fun times, but also for the way it lightens chores. Knowing how to be a friend and partner is of utmost importance. Good communication and honesty lead to trust, which forms the basis for commitment . This is a path I have traveled.