I know Adventure is not dead because I have had a long and intimate correspondence with Adventure. –Jack London

In 2002, I packed the remains of a life I no longer wanted into the back of my silver Nissan pickup and drove west across Canada, South down the Pacific Coast Highway and across the border into Mexico. Stopping just short of the tip of the Baja Peninsula, I settled in the tiny village of Cabo Pulmo where I learned the ins and outs of off-the-grid living and community-based conservation. While following my dream to learn to surf, I’d stumbled across a unique coral reef in the Sea of Cortez that needed protection. The resulting adventures I had with waves, sea turtles and men are the focus of the memoir I'm writing - very much a work in progress..

Today, 13 years after moving to Mexico, I still live on an isolated beach on the peninsula with a posse of three dogs and an illiterate, sometimes savant gardener who often speaks in a tongue that even the locals don’t understand. I surf as often as I can, kiteboard when the wind blows, and otherwise write, do yoga, hang out with a couple of Huichol shamans, and contemplate just how much life has changed since the days when I worked long hours in Canada as an environmental scientist. In addition to my memoir, I write a blog, Dawn Revealed, and the odd poem, I write occasionally for The Scuttlefish, an ocean-focused online magazine. My mission is to inspire others to follow their dreams…change their lives…and thereby find the happiness we all seek.