My travels. KCC ask me to write
If life flashed before my eyes, it would be like a wild amusement ride for me! This quick summary may sound like Forrest Gump on an acid trip to you. Somewhat in order of dates and places.
Age 7, first trip
Ran away from home for 3 days, peanuts butter sandwiches; a thread and pin for fishing can only go so far.
I charge 2 cent to each neighborhood kid for touring my wildlife zoo in our basement, to finance my next escape.
Age 8 to 17
Travel as an international athletes in swimming, wrestling and water polo Traveled Europe, North America, and Centro America.
From age 13 hitch hike some summers, our Government gave free accommodation and two meals a day in every large major city across Canada. Once, fish guts fell on me from a bald eagle up in a tree. Trapped by a mother and black bear club, I scared them off. In the morning awoke from moose breathing on me. Kayak around Vancouver Island, best trip ever.
Hitch hike most of USA states during the summers. Got a hair cut on a tree stump in the Deep South from two huge red necks by gun point. Age
Age18 to 21
Did animation, film work, studies taekwondo in LA, CA. and met many famous people and babes,
Meet serial killers, devil worshipers, many flaming gays, Jesus freaks, rainbow people and they told me their stories in a nutshell. Slow down on the hitch hiking after that.
My life went from a world class athlete to an artist over one hit of acid.
Traveled for 11 months straight around the world, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and Northern Africa.
From England to Calcutta India, took a magic bus, costing only $60. You get off any stops along the way and get back on again when you want. Did side trip to Algiers, almost got stoned for romantic on the beach. Took Polaroid picture in Iraq, show it to a group, they went running screaming, BLACK MAJIC.
At Monkey temple in Nepal got mugged by 40 monkeys for food, used my taekwondo. Nepal had many drug food restaurant for hippies to high on. Climbed Himalaya Mountains the most beautiful mountain varied ranges in the world
I think India and the USA are the most extreme country varied anywhere, having many of world riches people and land and some of the poorest.
Bangladesh is the poorest country, one place had10 waiter fraught over me to serve me.
Burma boarder was closed for 20 years, we were second air flight in its reopening, and people were too friendly like pest.
Got my second forced haircut in Singapore for being a suspected hippy. Lived with a Korea family for 3 weeks, dine on the floor table. Snake temple, handle poisonous snakes; put them in my shirt and on my shoulders.
Stayed one week in a village that had never seen a white person before.
Did lots of dancing in Australia because, men don’t dance. Age 22 to 26
First full time sand sculptor in the modern times; Won my first sand sculpture world champion in 1982 then won 4 more afterwards. Started working world wide.Traveled all states and providences in Mexico Canada and the USA, except Yukon and Alaska.
In Southern Mexico meet a 300 member tribe, only breed by incest all with long noses. Had 3 machines cocked at me in a drug raid, had nothing on me. Swam with kids, wail crocodiles sun them selves on the banks. Skin drove and touched dolphins, turtles moray ells and sharks.
In Columbia our bus was stage coach robbed and I came out OK. Got mugged by three guys coming out of a bank, I beat them up for my passport or the Police would have beaten me up much worst. A Custom man stoled my camera wail laughing at me; strapped around him was machine gun... The USA and Columbia are the most dangerous in general.
Age 27 to 35
By now, traveled 80 counties circled the world 3 times I met with many major politicians including presidents and premieres, plus many beautiful people, Got married, had a daughter kept touring the world in sand, ice, snow, and multi media film fix and museum sculptures. Built sand sculpture up to 67 ft. tall, 70,000 tons and snow playgrounds span 3 acre. Worst vandal of all is birds.
Traveled more of Centro and South America. and survived war zones in parts. Petted a tame tiger and lion and they lick me back. Hugged and kiss monkeys and parrots everyday for a month. Chase by a Komodo dragon, swamp by thousands of bugs, near hits by local buses. Traveled with many farm animals sitting around me on buses
Age 36 to 55
Taught or was a competitor sand sculptor in Russia, China South America, and Europe and sometime treated like a rock stars. Ate in a China restaurant where all the food is sculptured.
Slept in 5 snice or ices Hotels, 3 in Finland, largest on in Sweden. Spent the night on a ice bed, ate on ice plate on ice table, drank from ice glasses and watched the northern lights.
Total – traveled 94 countries to date. All in all nobody got harmed, only one cracked finger nail to show for. Never touch a prostitute yet tour a few brothels. Never cheated on a woman for I worship the most beautiful creatures on earth.
Greatest moment ever, first born child, first world championship and sex for 20 hours straight. Sex, sculpture and travel are the only things continued, maybe until age 100. Today, building my own eco village in Belize
Can ask any question you have.
