Phi Phi Islands, Thailand
Somewhere Far
The World as Classroom
Always Moving
No Fixed Address
Foreign Service Kid
Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer meant home was never just one place. Every few years, a new country, a new language, a new way of seeing.
Phi Phi Islands, Thailand
Somewhere Far
The World as Classroom
Always Moving
No Fixed Address
The Backstory
When your father works for the foreign service, you don't just visit places. You live in them. You learn to read a room before you learn to read a book. You figure out what people mean before you understand what they're saying.
That upbringing is the foundation of how I see the world. Not as a tourist, not as an outsider, but as someone who was taught early that home is a feeling you carry with you, not coordinates on a map.
I speak English natively, have working German from years spent in Central Europe, and am developing Portuguese from time in Brazil. Languages aren't just tools for communication. They're lenses. Each one changes what you notice, what you find funny, what you take seriously.
Travel shaped everything that followed: the instinct for pattern recognition that draws me to cybersecurity, the comfort with ambiguity that makes entrepreneurship feel natural, the restlessness that makes standing still feel like moving backward.
Coming Soon
Every country lived in, every city that left a mark. An interactive map of everywhere the foreign service kid has been.