Traveling The World & Figuring Out This Little Thing Called Life

Background

• Started traveling more than ever in 2011, family trips, bike trips, friends trips, camping trips, adventure trips
• Ask about any trips, any time. There are endless number of stories including a bike being stolen in a foreign country that ended with a gun being pulled
• Any time you have an opportunity for a trip, even a 3 day weekend leave Thursday after work & return Sunday evening, do everything you can to pull the trigger

Favorite Trips

• 2 Weeks in China. Shanghai, Beijing, & Chengdu (FISE Chengdu)
• 10 Weeks Alone in Europe, 20+ countries (4 BMX Contests, Simple Session, Baltic Games, FISE Marseille, BRAAAB)
  
• 2 Weeks in Mexico with AJ Anaya (Red Bull Dirt Conquers)
• 1 Week in Estonia (Simple Session)
• 3 Weeks in England, Spain, & France with AJ Anaya (2 BMX Contests, BMX Fest, FISE Montpellier)
• 2 Weeks in England, France, and Italy with Family
• 30 hour drive across America thru the Rocky Mountains from MN to CA about a dozen times round trip alone & with friends
• A dozen trips to Woodward Action Sports Camp in PA & CA, fly & drive as a camper, dish dog, counselor, and instructor
• American National Park visits, Yellowstone & Yosemite

Photos

“Completing Life” Great Wall of China – Beijing, China

Greatest Skyline Ever. This was only one of DOZENS here… Shanghai, China

Flying over glaciers to Skagway, Alaska.

This will be completely melted within the next year or two… Bless to have seen such an incredible part of nature. Mendenhall Glacier Cave – Juneau, Alaska

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Glacier Express through the Swiss Alps – Geneva to St Moritz, Switzerland

One of the oldest standing structures in the world, Acropoles – Athens, Greece

Kragero, Norway

Marseille, France

Castle – Glasgow, Scotland

Ice Bar – Stockholm, Sweden

St Mary’s Church, Largest brick church in the world – Gdansk, Poland

Belgrade, Serbia

With MTV’s Ryan Sheckler, both of us competing at Simple Session Contest – Tallinn, Estonia

My passport is ready… Where to next?

Favorite Places Visited

• Scotland
• Swiss Alps
• Norway Fjords
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Berlin Wall, Germany
• London, England
• Acropolis, Athens, Greece
• Paris, France
• Rome, Italy
• Venice, Italy
• Gdansk, Poland
• Shanghai, China
• Beijing, China
• Chengdu, China
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
• Juneau, Alaska, USA
• Maui & Oahu, Hawaii, USA
• Yellowstone National Park, Montana, USA
• Yosemite National Park, California, USA
• Boundary Waters, Minnesota, USA
• New York City, New York, USA
• Los Angeles, California, USA
• Denver, Colorado, USA
• Portland, Oregon, USA
• Miami, Florida, USA

If I could go Back… Hands Down…

• Scotland
• Swiss Alps
• Norway
• China
• Greece
• Alaska

Countries Traveled To

• Mexico
• Costa Rica
• America
• England
• France
• Germany
• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Switzerland
• Denmark
• Sweden
• Norway
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Serbia
• Macedonia
• Greece
• Italy
• Spain
• Liechtenstein
• Canada
• Scotland
• Monaco
• China

Next on the List

• Australia
• Dubai
• Peru
• Japan