jennjeff1

English und meinen Deutsch ist besser mit mehr Bier trinken! 少し日本語

Our best travel experience was flying with Safari Helicopters on Kauai, Hawaii with all the thousands of waterfalls surrounding the helicopter on all sides of the caldera and Napali Coast. Also, Safari Helicopters overhead the active volcano vents on the Big Island of Hawaii. Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft at 14,000 feet on Oahu's North Shore, accelerating to 120 m.p.h. for 60 seconds of free fall, and taking in the quiet beauty of Hawaii after the parachute opened with Skydive Hawaii.

My goal is to visit all 7 continents and all 50 States in America. Climbed Mount Fuji, Japan in AUG05 and went free fall skydiving on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii in MAR06.

I have lived in America, Germany, Korea, Hawaii (yes, that's also in America) and Okinawa (Japan). I have visited 23 countries, 300 cities, 40 of 50 states and 4 continents as of 2012.

I enjoy traveling with my wife Jenny, especially since we are a "child-free" couple. I love experiencing new cultures, tasting unusual foods, and exploring new places. I am a geography major, specializing in cartography (map drawing), matching maps and overhead/hand-held imagery with the people and cultures from around the world.

I am a Christian, amateur photographer/videographer, skydiver (1 tandem freefall, 1 static line), pilot (22 hours including a 1.5 hour F-16 ride), marathon runner (3.5-4 hours), mountain climber (under 14K feet), bicyclist (no more than 100 miles/day), drum corps soprano bugle/trumpet player, and part-time chef (stuffed Cornish game hen with Swiss vegetable medley & a pumpkin pie are my specialties).

I have never smoked anything in my life and I intend to keep it that way! We both love wine and I also like beer. I'm a Jack Daniel's Whiskey (marinade) fan and we have toured the distillery in Lynchburg, TN ;-)

I hope to take a hot air balloon trip over the Alps, go whitewater rafting, and break the sound barrier--maybe go into space/to the moon if tourism ever picks up out there!

FAVORITE TRAVEL QUOTES:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain

"In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children."
~ Robert Benchley

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller (Blind & deaf writer)