A legend in my mind is the best way to describe it. I think differently from most people!

I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and raised in the early eighties when life was simple. We rode our bikes, played outside, and did not have the internet like kids today.

Canada was the only thing I knew until my first vacation to Southern California, Las Vegas, and Mexico in my early teens. My first memory of travel was falling asleep under the Christmas tree with the paper airline ticket after reading it 100s of times. Yes, they used to have paper and carbon copies of your actual legs of an airplane trip, wild! 

Just like now, I would tell anyone who cared about my travels (most didn’t and still don’t) that I was going to California, Las Vegas, and Acapulco, Mexico (some things never change, LOL).

We drove all around Southern California, into Las Vegas, and then flew to Acapulco, with those initial memories engraved in my mind forever. I fell in love with traveling to America and Mexico! 

Unimaginable at the time, I would later live in Southern California, Las Vegas, and Mexico. I now spend my time in Mesa, Arizona, and Rocky Point, Mexico, when not traveling.

Looking back, I had a plan, and no matter what happened along the way, I would selfishly follow it, even if I didn’t know it at the time.

The makings of a solo traveler!