Steve's favorite love has long been hitting the open road to appreciate the beauty of nature. "When I was in high school, I had a pick-up truck and I used to drive it to West Virginia--that's beautiful country. I seriously thought about buying 70 acres of that land near a lake, but I didn't because the price was too high."

"I used to go there alone quite a bit," he recalls. "During the day I'd just walk for hours gazing at the country; then at night. I'd lie in my sleeping bag wondering about things. It was so quiet the only things I'd hear were me and the crickets--God, was that great."

Snavely likes to see all kinds of scenery, and he says that viewing the East Coast has been great for that. But also his weekend jaunts have served to case the pressures of Harvard.

"I find one of the best things about this college is leaving it," he explained. "It's really nice to get away, and to top it off, the country's great out on the coast."

Traveling informally is the finest way to go, Steve says, and at the end of this year, he plans to wander across the U.S. for two months with Harvard hockey player Doug Elliott.

"Maybe we'll go down to Mexico and up through Canada," he said. "We'll just roam around, stay a week at each place. And whenever we're on the read and feel like stopping and goofing around, we'll do it."

Steve's ultimate plan is to enter the world of small business, and his involvement in his father's six-man run wholesale lumber company really stimulated his fascination in sales.

A good understanding of the principles of economics is helpful to the successful management of small business, Snavely believes, and since this will be his field, economics is his major at Harvard. The close involvement with people in a tiny company is "the great kind of contact that you can't get so totally in a big industry," Steve thinks. "You got to week really closely with all types of people--that's what makes this would so great."