I'm riding my motorcycle on the largest expedition I've ever done; a one year ride from California to the very bottom of South America. I spend several years learning spanish solo and in immersion programs in Central America, as well as left my job in order to properly accomplish this one.
For many years I hadn't thought much about Burning Man; I'd met a handful of people that made me think most burners were self-interested hippies trying to get instagram pictures and not much else. A few key experiences made me have second thoughts on that impression, and when I was offered a spot at a camp I took it and went to see what the hype was about.
I solo climbed Mt. Shasta over 2 days, ascending the Avalanche Gulch route, and took my snowboarding gear with me to back-country snowboard down after reaching the summit.
In the early spring of 2023 I solo traveled to Mauritania, west Africa for 2 weeks to hike through a portion of the Sahara desert and freight-hop the worlds longest freight train.
I rode my motorcycle from the SF Bay Area up the California coast, Oregon coast, Washington coast, took a ferry to Vancouver island, took another ferry back to Prince Rupert BC, rode to the Yukon, then rode the Dempster Highway to the town of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories of Canada to see the Arctic Ocean.
After several years of playing the permit lottery, I finally found luck in daily lotteries and had the chance to summit Half Dome. I got the email for a permit valid for the next morning so after work I packed my car, drove out to Yosemite in the evening, slept in my car the best I could, then started the hike about an hour before sunrise.
I rode my motorcycle long the original overland trail that is the Pony Express, from Sacramento to Salt Lake City Utah. This covered ~700 miles of dirt road and many stops along the way at historic stations used by the original Pony Express business.