Born in Hammerfest, in the very north of Norway. My first travel was to Raufoss, where I grew up. When I was 3 years old, I moved to Zambia where I lived for a year and a half as my parents worked there. Except for this, and some traveling with my family, my firs trip was to Chesley, Canada, where I was an exchange student. While in Canada I got the chance to travel extensively with my host family. I traveled around in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Scatswan, Alberta as well as to about 10 states in the northern part of the US.

When I got back to Norway again, the only traveling that I did for the next three years, was a package tour to the Canary Islands. This was just a party trip, and not really traveling in my sense of the word.

The next serious traveling was however my most extensive backpacking trip so far. In September 1986 a friend of mine and I went to New York, where we purchased a Van. We drove around the US for more than three months with this Van before we sold it in San Diego. We then took buses down to Mexico where we stayed for another month. I then continued down through Central America, down the Amazon river and around in South America on my own. I worked my way home again by signing up on a Norwegian container ship, going from Santos, Brazil and back to Europe. The whole trip lasted for about 9 months.

A year later I went on a two-month trip to Asia. I flew to Thailand and then to Hong Kong, took a train through China to Beijing and the Trans Sibirian Railroad from Beijing through Moscow and to Berlin before I went home.

The following summer I went on a months train trip around Europe. Went through Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.

The summer after I went to Spain and Portugal for a month. And a few months after this I went to South Africa for a month.

The following Summer I went on a three-month trip through the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand.

A year later I went to California for two years to study. While there I also traveled around in that region, including Hawaii, and Mexico. I also spent two months in Japan during the summer between the first and second year of my MBA program.

When I got back to Norway again it took me 6 months before I moved out again. This time I moved to Beijing where I worked as a trainee for the Norwegian Trade Council at the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing. While working in Beijing I got a chance to travel extensively round in China as well as to a few other countries in the region, including Thailand, Vietnam, Macao, Hong Kong, Mongolia and North Korea. On my way home I went hiking in Nepal and spent a few weeks in India.

It was not until I started to work for Ericsson, after my return from China, that I started to get paid to travel. I had some job related trips to places around in Europe as well as to Australia and Thailand. During this time I also had a weeks vacation to both France and Switzerland.

After a year and a half with Ericsson in Norway, I moved to Malaysia. During the 18 months that I was living in Malaysia I spent about 6 months in China, the US and in Indonesia as part of my job. I also spent about 2 months traveling to Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand. I also went to Africa for a few weeks to climb mount Kilimanjaro and to go on a safari. The African trip included Tanzania and Kenya.

When I returned from Malaysia I continued to work for Ericsson, but this time in Sweden. I was expected to work a lot in Asia in this position, but after 5 months, the only travel I had been able to do was to Australia and Denmark, in addition to a couple of weeks of vacation in Thailand, Malaysia and China. As this job turned out to be too much of an “office job”, I decided to leave Ericsson and go on to the longest and most adventurous journey of my life. I bought a sailboat with a friend and plan to just travel around without any major goal or purpose for as long as I feel like it. The first trip will be from Athens to Thailand, through the Red Sea, The Maldives and The Andaman Islands. After this, we plan to just cruse around South East Asia.

In addition to this I have passed through and had stop over in about 10 other countries.