Born in Darwin, I spent six years in the Australian bush in Kalamunda, a suburb of Perth, catching deadly snakes and training wild kookaburra's to sit on my shoulder.  For three years I ran barefoot in Papua New Guinea growing up with the native children.  I kayaked from island to island through the Indonesian archipelago and explored the mountains and volcanoes long before the rise of international tourism (and terrorism.)  My family and I caught boats with the pigs and the chickens to remote islands in Thailand where there wasn't even a pier; you had to jump onto a plank of wood and pull yourself by rope to shore. One of my favorite pastimes is sleeping under a million stars in Alice Springs in the Australian Outback where I lived for 15 years.

Besides living in Australia, America and Papua New Guinea, I have collectively spent years travelling to:

China, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Austria, Monaco, Switzerland, Egypt, Canada and Mexico.

The globe and I grew up together.

I moved to Kansas City, USA 14 years ago and have bounced back and forward between the rawest most primitive pleasures, to fine dining, the finest hotels, Broadway theatre, yachts and limousines, first-class round-the-world tickets sipping champagne and eating lobster.  I have rode elephants in Asia, camels around the Pyramids, been dog sledding in the Arctic, took a sampan (row boat) through the North Vietnam jungle, rode horses through the ocean in the Caribbean, big game fishing on the Great Barrier Reef... and on and on.  Life has been an exquisite tapestry for me and you could comfortably call me an adventure traveler.