Started ballooning in 1993. I was laid off my “real job” and created Up & Away Ballooning, Inc. in 1999, a commercial ballooning operation providing site seeing tours in the Sonoma County, CA area. 

 In 2010, we swapped one of the six person baskets, to a wheelchair accessible basket, the only one of its kind in the country.

 In 2015, I sold the business to Calistoga Balloon Adventures, but the operation remained Up & Away. My wife and I moved to OR but returned to Sonoma County in 2019.

As of this date, I have 3185 hours in hot air balloons with a perfect safety record. I have flown in all the western U.S. states and New Zealand.