Brian's Story

​Brian also had the good-fortune to go on a years-long travelling and backpacking adventure to all 50 states, during which he worked his way from place to place in order to try to develop a very close relationship with the country as a whole.  Brian's travels were featured on the CBS Evening News and on CNN.​

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Those adventures were a grand expedition intended to earn what Brian refers to as a Master's in America. Brian could perhaps lay a claim to being involved in one of America’s most exhilarating adventures over the last 50 years.  His travels were filled with tremendous excitement and uncertainty - envision a more-expansive version of Into the Wild - whether Brian was backpacking in the Northeast, camping under the stars in the Midwest, hitching up to Alaska, or voyaging to Hawaii.

 

Brian's travels – about which he wrote a book, Destination Paradise – led him to, as just a few examples, work at a shipyard in Ft. Lauderdale, in the potato fields in Eastern Idaho, in the pineapple fields on Oahu, and also to volunteer with the Red Cross at Ground Zero in New York City and in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. ​

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Brian was born in Michigan and graduated from Michigan State with a degree in accounting, after which he worked in accounting in Michigan before launching his U.S. travels.