CURRENT MISSION

I am presently living in Santa Cruz with my best friend in the whole world, my fiancee Shelley. She has finished her PhD in Plant Biology and I am currently traveling all over this grand land. I Love the spirit of travel and can’t wait to share!!

ABOUT ME

I grew up in good ol' St. Louie playing sports and continued this passion through college at Quincy University where i Played for 4 years. Following this I moved to Breckenridge, CO where i was a ski bum for a couple years while working as a lift operator. I then moved to Fort Collins for 4 years and truly fell in love with all things wilderness. Hiking, Cycling, rivers, fly fishing, and simply being around the natural world were all fostered in the great city of FoCo. This is the town where i also met the love of my life, Shelley. We then moved to Steamboat and beyond where we settled in Portland, OR for a year. Shelley was accepted to Grad school at UCSC(University of California Santa Cruz)and here we are!!

PHILOSOPHY

We are on this planet for one reason, to grow.

Interests

Backpacking, Bicycling, tour cycling, soccer, disc golf, St. Louis Cardinals, Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Brett Dennen, non-fiction, fiction, spirituality, writing,

• flying
• traveling
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• sports
• soccer
• golf
• biology
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything Ram Dass, Grateful Dead, Walk Across America, Diet for a New America, Steing Cheese Incident, Tom Petty,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My girlfriend and I set a Guinness record for most redheads ever assembled in one place at one time(yes we are both redheads!). The number was around 1,600 and we set the record in Pioneer Square of Portland, OR. It was a sight to behold. Free sunscreen.

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico