He has been in plane crashes, skydived, driven around 38 states in the US in a tiny car, been a commercial fisherman, exceed 200 mph on a motorcycle, taken a train across Russia and China, and been marooned in a minefield in the Golan Heights. He is now very content living in the suburbs with his partner, two teenage boys, two dogs and a rabbit. He craves new adventures. He knows more useless facts than it is conceivable that any man could remember. They turn out to be useful more often than would first appear. He reads, a lot. He might not be the most interesting man in the world, but his probably in the top 0.1%.