ABOUT
BEGINNING
I was born in Oroville, CA in the mid 1970's. These were not my formative years. I was who I was from Day 0 and no matter where I've traveled, I've been the same child who never wanted to stay in his crib. People thought I was smart, but this was only due to being the first grandchild in my family. One can't plan a better trick if one planned it.
EARLY YEARS
I stayed in Butte County for about 21 years, enjoying hot, 40C+ summers and cold, 2C- winters. In the seasons between, there was public school, which proved frustrating. After what ended up being my last year in high school, I managed to be a student in a new program called College Connections which got me out of high school and in to college.
Traveling in Serbia means kickin' it at the Novi Beograd station.
WHEN I THOUGHT LIFE BEGAN
I ended up graduating from the University of California at Berkeley and ultimately earning a degree in English Literature which is only useful when I want to talk about what cads Chaucer and Milton were. During college, I was also working for American Zoetrope, which is the film company of Francis Coppola and after graduation, I continued to work there full time until getting laid off in 2002 due to the dot-com fallout and recession. Frustration with the US's lack of adopting the Metric system and unemployed boredom set in, so I moved in to San Francisco in 2003, where I have lived ever since on the edge of Nob Hill which affords me first hand experience with spoiled art students and well as the most lovely transvestite hookers one would ever hope to meet down at Sutter and Larkin.
WHEN LIFE ACTUALLY BEGAN
In 2003, I took my first trip to Europe, which was followed by a trip the year after that and the year after that and so on until traveling slowly took over more and more of my life, as well as photography, and complete immersion in the web. It appears that when the mixture was just right and these hobbies were needing some kind of cohesion, I met my future wife. Together we do all these endeavors and are working on some large-scale projects to make our knowledge and skills provide a better life for those who are less fortunate in the world. More on this later as it appears that life has actually started now...
