I do my best to try anything once and live without regrets. For someone my age, I feel like I have some unique stories and I'm pretty happy about that.

Outdoor Enthusiast

Mountain biking is my meditation - nothing is more therapeutic than picking thorns and rocks out of your face. Kayaking came into my life as the only way to survive Texas summers and it’s continued to hang on two states later. These days, Puget Sound is where it gets the most use. Basically, if you need to find me, check outside.

Urban Explorer and Photographer

For as long as I can remember, I've had an interest in history, architecture and wandering into places I probably shouldn't be (always with permission, of course!). It isn't surprising, then, that I eventually discovered urban exploration as a way to experience and understand what happens to our built environment as it's allowed to return to nature -  the condenser trench of a nuclear power plant becomes a humid, almost subtropical micro-climate or how a shelf of old, dusty suitcases in a psychiatric hospital becomes a home for a family of squirrels.

My background in environmental design lets me examine and understand these places from a unique perspective and I try to think about how these rare glimpses into urban decay can help me become a better designer. As fascinating as they are, I would much rather see these places be adapted and reused instead of slowing crumbling to rubble.