About me

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I was born and raised in San Francisco, California. I've been to over 65 countries, but I keep coming back to this magical city because I love earthquakes.

My mom is from Chile and my dad is from France. I spoke Spanish at home, French at school, and English everywhere else. I can get by in Portuguese and Italian, barely survive in Russian, and speak a few other languages like a 2 year old.

I have a degree in Religion from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. So I am well prepared to start a church and make lots of money off of it.

I co-founded SIGHTech, a successful Silicon Valley company. I also worked at Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft. All this technology makes me want to head into the woods!

I am donating nearly half of my book royalty to the three major trails in America, known as the Triple Crown (Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail). I've hiked all three trails and I'm the only person to ever yo-yo the CDT (that's doing a roundtrip).

I had a five month adventure in Eastern Europe in 2004 and will return there in 2008! I'm in the fun process of writing that book, due in 2009.

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