Memorable Travel Experience(s)

- In 2026 I took my first hot air balloon ride in Albuquerque.
- Seeing all the incredible colors in the sky during sunset in White Sands NP
- In 2016, a random person I met at Graceland in Memphis gave me a 100‑dollar bill to support my backpacking trip. Two years later, I used that money to take my Couchsurfing host and his friends out for dinner in Seattle, paying forward the generosity of the stranger who gave me the money.
- In 2023 a former Ohio state senator and his wife took me to their lakefront cottage in Pennsylvania for the weekend.
- In 2025 I was randomly selected to ride with the driver in an old diesel train crossing West Virginia.