The Story of My Life (1972–2024)

My parents were from the Los Angeles area of southern California. They met at Long Beach State University in the mid 1960s and later lived in a communal house with a group of hippies. In 1970 they went on a six week backpacking and hitchhiking trip around Europe. When I was a kid they told myself and my younger brother stories about that experience, which no doubt influenced my quest for adventure.

Both my mom and dad worked in a hospital and one of my dad’s coworkers was from Vancouver, Canada. He moved back to Canada at some point, and shortly thereafter my parents were…