I was born in the United Kingdom, immigrated to Canada when I was 3, Growing up my parents took us on many adventures, weather it was spending a summer with my father in the oil fields in Scotland or a simple as walking down the road to the local ice cream shop looking for treasures in the grass. Others were a little more trying like our yearly camping trip to Killarney, where my dad would put us on an island for 2 weeks, we would eat nothing but can foods and whatever fish we would catch. Or the time my parents decided to sell everything we owned and move us across the globe to open a bar in Portugal, that was a fun one. Don't even get me started on the time I spent In South Africa. I do have to say that those adventures of my youth fully carved the way for the adventure of my present. The greatest adventure to date is the trip my wife and I are having raising our 3 spirited little kids. Keizo, Shiro and Kayko. Watching them be part of nature coupled with the memories of my youth have been the greatest inspiration for this book. We currently live in the middle of a forest surrounded by nature just north of Toronto.