My 20s were really, really good to me. I was enjoying life, and pretty much just floating wherever it took me. This seemed to work well, the “go with the flow” mentality had me learning skills and experiencing a random assortment of life’s offerings. I ran a few businesses, helped build some extraordinary cars, continued to compete in skateboarding, had a video production studio, ran a successful social and marketing company, organized events, and was was teaching photography workshops on the side. Holy run on sentence Batman.

So yeah, I tried a little bit of everything, enjoyed most of it, and learned life lessons and skills that will be with me to the grave. On top of that life was easy, maybe too easy. That “ikigai” we all have - longing for life’s meaning and our purpose, well it still eluded me. At this point I was lucky enough to have a skill set making me perfect to help my friends chase their dreams, but at the end of each day I had to ask myself what the hell was “I” doing? Late nights of drink and Anthony Bourdain stoked that fire inside of me for travel and adventure, but how?

Life then got weird for all of us around 2020 and '21. I was personally hit hard on several fronts - the marketing company couldn't hang with all the shutdowns, I contracted some crazy mystery illness and lost some very important parts of my life. Eventually I was at ground zero – a rational person would have racked up a hellacious therapy bill, fired up indeed.com and got back to the grind. That thought physically pains me, and through some masochistic twist of fate I found the misfortune and adventure I was looking for.

Fall of ‘21 I gutted my Hummer to build “H2Roam” - my take on the that good old VanLife. I bought the H2 earlier in the year with plans to use it on smaller trips, but now I was ready to dive in for months at a time! Some of you might be thinking that’s a strange choice, but its just big enough to be comfortable for some part-time living, and incognito enough to park overnight at a trailhead and not get kicked out. Perfect for me to hit the road and see if I could actually shoot a decent photo, and maybe find that ikigai along the way.