I was born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and raised in the Detroit area, with frequent outings to my birthplace in the eastern end of the Upper Peninsula.
Being outside is part of my being. Among my earliest memories is when I was about 3, walking with a neighborhood friend from our house in the Detroit suburbs to a nearby woods. It was only five city blocks that we walked, so it was close. But I remember getting home, and my mom reamed me out about going so far from home.
That wasn’t the last time I wandered away from home. As a teenager, I rode my bicycle far and wide in the Detroit area.
After high school, I took a year off and worked for a while, then rode my bicycle from Detroit to California, shipped the bike back, and hitch-hiked across the west into Canada and then back to Michigan for college.
After a career as a meteorologist, my new life consists of traveling, photographing the world around me, discovering new places, meeting new people, and enjoying life.