A Canadian with a formal education in environmental horticulture selling real estate in North Carolina. "It's all about a girl!"

 

In 2002, fresh from my last semester of landscape architecture in Helsinki, Finland, I returned back to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to start what would become an award-winning landscape design-build firm. Five years later, needing a sabbatical, I traveled to Central America in search of adventure. What I found would change the course of my life: the girl. A beautiful redhead (and American), Bailey.

 

After meeting in a small Spanish school, we traveled together for five weeks and then returned to our home countries. But that didn't last long. After a year of intermittent visits, I decided to make an epic 3,000-mile motorcycle trip across the continent to ask her to be my wife. She said "YES!"