I was born in rural Michigan and developed a love for the outdoors at a young age. I spent half my youth sleeping in a tent and hiking along more trails than I can recount, all for my love of nature and being one with the world I lived in. I'm a simple farm boy at heart, never going to college, but that doesn't mean I don't think of myself as an intellectual. It just means that I believe true intelligence comes from within and having a degree is something that you only really need to secure a 9-