I'm a married father of two and I live in Oregon. I have lived in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Hawaii (Maui), Washington and Oregon. My first real travel experience was backpacking through Europe for two months with a friend when I was seventeen. What an educational and eye-opening experience! Since then, I have gone to Mexico and Europe several times and explored much of the U.S. Prior to the births of our children, my wife and I backpacked for six months, starting in Berlin and making our way through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, India, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Bali, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. There were too many highlights to mention and I'm looking forward to taking another trip like this in the future.