About Will - The dad
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| W.W. enjoying the horizon, from SeaGlass Beach in Bermuda |
Travel, for me, is as integral to life as air. I don’t know
why. I don’t know if it is a sensation seeking need, escapism,
self-exploration, spiritual, or some such other need within me that drives it.
I just know that I need to do it. I love doing it, I love thinking about it, I
love talking about it, I love planning it, I love reading about it, … I just love
travel.
I have been this way for a very long time. My mom enjoys
sharing stories of how I would ride public transit or my bike long distances (think
50+ miles) all around Northern California solo before I was 10 years old. You could
do that back in those days. Those days were the 1970s.
Decades of prioritizing travel in my life has resulted in a
rich travel experience panoply. At the bottom of this page, you will see what I
mean.
My favorite mode of travel is my feet, but any mode of
travel is welcome. I have no preferred travel style. I do budget, luxury,
group, solo, arranged, free range, whatever. I enjoy it all.
The influences upon my posts come from several sources beyond the first hand experiences. I spent a decade in the hospitality industry, with global executive responsibilities. This overlays business and financial considerations. I hold a Ph.D. in General Psychology, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Physics, so scholarly knowledge and rigorous analytical training creep in too. Finally, I actively study the esoteric in a quest to better understand reality. All of this tends to yield cerebral and philosophical travel experience reflections.
I hope the glimpse into me gives you a better view of who I
am and that the sharing helps you more richly experience my posts.
See you on the road!
-Will
The dad in WheresDadAt.com
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I’ve done 150 ft shipwreck penetration
scuba dives in Truk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia from a
liveaboard. I’ve hiked over Salkantay pass (15K) pass in Peru during a weeklong
hike to Machu Picchu. I have also climbed mount Kilimanjaro (19K) in Tanzania on
another weeklong hike. I have floated along the Nile River in Egypt for a week
aboard a river boat; dipped my toe in, and watched burial rituals at, the
Ganges River in India; and whitewater rafted the Russian River in California
and Nantahala River in North Carolina. I’ve meditated in the ruins of Angkor
Wat in Cambodia, partied in underground nightclubs in Moscow, and ridden
motorcycles all over northern Thailand. I’ve enjoyed a beer in a Czech
monastery near Prague, rode a maglev train to Shanghai, and jogged in Abu Dhabi
as well as crashed a dogsled in the arctic circle while in Canada requiring a
trip to the emergency room, failed in an attempt to sail around the world with my
family, and I was nearly killed by a Lamborghini in Kuala Lumpur (don't play
chicken with a rich guy!). I’ve trained around central Europe and across northern
India. I’ve logged more than a million miles flying, spent over 100 days aboard
big cruise ships, and slept over a thousand nights in hotels. I’ve done both transatlantic
and transpacific ocean crossings by ship, been to over 50 countries, and I even
worked as a global executive for a huge hospitality chain. I have helicoptered
to glaciers in Alaska and surfed the NorthShore in Hawaii on Oahu. I’ve camped
in cow patty filled fields in Texas, with Alpacas in Oklahoma, and next to graves
in New Mexico. There’s more, but all this looks absurd as it is … and I like to
looking forward, not backward, on my travels.
