Mark E. Johnson has been a writer in some capacity since he began penning poetry as a six-year-old. Over the ensuing years, he has worked as a road musician and Nashville songwriter; a journalist/editor in the fields of agriculture, rural living, and wildlife conservation; a freelance writer for various magazines; and a humorist/blogger. Given this white-bread, run-of-the-mill career trajectory, it was only natural that he would launch a Nepal trekking company in 2017 from his home base of Middle Tennessee. Mark lives in Kingston Springs, Tennessee, with his wife, Holly, their three kids—Sam, Ava, and Pete—and two cats, CeCe and Greta.