I love doing everything that makes my heart pulse, makes me feel alive, keeps me in touch with mother earth and provides me with wonderful experiences and memories. My hobbies and recreational activities include camping, mountain biking, rock climbing, snowboarding (damn I miss those mountains!), skateboarding, sky diving, hiking, canoing-rafting-kayaking, high altitude alpine ascents (bagging fourteeners baby), attending music festivals and so forth. Basically anything that feels good at the time and the opportunity presents itself.The Maroon Bells outside of Aspen, Colorado where I lived as a snowboard bum for three years.. Probably the best three years I have had so far.. riding 100+ days at Aspen Mtn, Buttermilk, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass.. very good times indeed..
The above pictures are of a camping trip some great friends and I shared at Earthdaddie's campground at the Land Between the Lakes. Super good times!!The above gallery is a compilation of pictures from the last two music festivals that I attended. Bonnaroo 2006 in Manchester, TN and The Redwood festival at Shelly's farm in Hazel, KY. Beautiful and wonderful times.
I'd like to meet:
I love to meet people who are happy and positive, who are down to earth but upbeat and outgoing, who can see the beauty that surrounds us everyday {yes, it is there, my friends}, who have dreams, who can discuss all matter of things, who loves our mother earth and wants to keep her well, who lives life to it's fullest, who have a deep love for nature and the environment, and most of all.. people who can love and embrace others regardless of race, religion, political beliefs, economic status, sexual orientation and personal lifestyles. So, welcome, my friend.. join me in the quest.. share your thoughts.. enjoy today.. and may you be blessed with peace and happiness.I am a dreamer, I know, but I hope I am not the only one.
Music:
Bawn of The Mash, Snukafoo, Woodbox Gang, Helping Phriendly Band, The Go Show, Goodnight June, Shady Frenz, Fat Hand, Swinging Mary, Erik Larson Project, Josh Brown Syndrome, Madahoochi, Keller Williams, Mr. Blotto, Rolling Souls, Moe., Spoonfed Tribe, Lion Vibes (Jball kicks it), Love Tribe, Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh and Friends, all the Marley's, Phish (Trey Anastasio), Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Matisyahu, Allman Brothers, Greg Gaffin, Bad Religion, Pennywise, AFI, Radiohead, Keller Williams, Chronophonic, Taking Back Sunday, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Big Cheese, of course The Drinking Buddies (my good bros), Umphrey's Mcgee, Dave Matthews Band, Pink Floyd, and many more. Just whatever sounds good at the time.
Movies:
Into Thin Air, Touching the Void, The Village, March of the Penguins, What the Bleep Do We Know, Inconvenient Truth, The Grizzly Man, Super-Size Me. I like to watch documentaries. I also like true stories of people who overcame impossible odds and survived.
Television:
The more we watch, the less we know.
Books:
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Siddartha by Herman Hesse, The Great Shark Hunt..Hell's Angels..The Rum Diaries..Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson, A Dark Place in the Jungle by Linda Spalding, Coming APART by Roger Rosenblatt, Noone Here Gets Out Alive by Paul Rothchild, "Watch Out for Foreign Guests!" by Orville Schell, Do IT! Let's Get Off Our But's..by John Roger and Peter McWilliams, Survive by Peter Deleo, The COMPLETE KAMA SUTRA translated by Alain Danielou just to name a few.
Heroes:
Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Dan Mazur, Jon Muir.
