"It all started on a rainy day in Vancouver (well, I'm not sure if it was raining or not, but it was October in Vancouver) back in 1978. To escape that rain, I'd go traveling, always with a "small" collection of trusted guidebooks. Pokin would always bug me about just how many I'd have with me (sometimes 1/2 my backpack would be full of books). In an attempt to get her off my back, avoid the baggage weight surcharges and save some trees, I thought I'd do my part to help the world go paperless and make a good travel web site."

"Was born and immediately started playing lego - traveled with hippie-in-denial parents - got into playing the cello at age 8 and rebelled as a rocker at age 13 - studied music composition during undergrad - traveled - decided I should know more about human affairs and studied business - traveled - got a marketing job at an evil cosmetics multinational but escaped brainwashing - traveled - finally saw the light - decided it would be nice to create a better travel website."

"Every spare moment I had, I was daydreaming about places to go or things I wanted to see. And through this all, I couldn't understand why, given all the advances of the internet, I still found it easiest to plan a vacation by buying a Lonely Planet Travel Guide to get the information I needed. There had to be a better way, and gosh darn it, if someone else wasn't going to do it, then I would!"