June 22, 2015.
Traveling around the world since I was just a puppy, the adventure spirit has drawn me to many far away places around the globe. Just as my senior year in high school finished my life path hustled me to Europe for 4 years serving the United States of America in the Army. It was a new way of life and the adjustment period was about 24 hours. I was free from parental control many of us experienced in the 60’s and 70’s.
Europe grabbed my flair for adventure and off I went trouncing through every country I could during my time off from wearing the olive drab uniform.
Fastforward nearly 40 years and here I am still trouncing through every backcountry road, trail, sand wash, barren desert, mountain range, third world cities and back alley food carts in search of something that I’ve yet to find.
What fuels my thirst for the next adventure is what I might find around the corner and the people that I will meet along the way. For some it’s a destination, but for me its far from reaching a destination, it’s the journey along the way that fuels my never ending quench for adventure.
Many of you know I operate a successful adventure company leading clients throughout the backcountry of the Baja Peninsula. I was introduced to Baja California by my parents as a young child. The credit clearly goes to my father, Ron and my mother, Kay, for having an adventure spirit and crossing the border to Mexico’s famed Baja California peninsula.
As a family we fished, camped and adventured in and around Popotla, Baja California. It wasn’t far from the US/Mexican border, but it provided a sense of wild and remote adventure in another world. In those days the border crossing was easy. Camping on the beach and eating endless pots of boiling lobster slathered with butter in fresh flour tortillas is all we thought about.
Over the next 45 years I have returned countless times and logged hundreds of thousands of miles along both the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean criss-crossing the Baja Peninsula and creating lifelong friendships along the way. Those friends are responsible for helping to mold the person I am today. Some old and some young, some rich and some poor, but most have a commonality of the adventure spirit within them.
However, not only have our adventures spanned the Baja Peninsula, but we have traveled with our kids through Canada, Alaska and all over the United States. In those days we were working two jobs, coordinating vacations and time off was a logistical nightmare. Traveling with the kids is rewarding in itself as all three of our amazing daughters are full of the adventure spirit. However, now is time for us to go alone with our furry child known as DIEZEL, our 3 year old Chocolate Labrador canine.
We will head north towards the Canadian border heading into the Yukon after crossing near Calgary, BC. Eventually we will end up in Alaska in search of the next chapter in our journey of adventure.
We created this blog to update our family and friends as we hope to meet some amazing people and experience everything we can in this thing they call LIFE! I only hope you can take some time out of your busy schedules to get out and explore. Their is never a really good time to stop your life and adventure, so just drop what your doing and live life my friends!
Over the next few months we will publish some of our adventures north of the US/Canadian border and we hope you get a chuckle out of the good, the bad and the ugly!
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