William’s top adventures:
- getting his pilot certificate and continually adding ratings
- riding his motorcycle up the Dalton Highway to the Arctic Circle
- flying his Twin Comanche from Nashville to Anchorage
- flying his Twin Comanche over the tallest mountain in North America: Mt. Denali
- getting stranded in Yakutat, Alaska
- driving the Alaskan Highway five times (Anchorage – San Antonio) ~84hrs/ ~5000 miles
- riding his motorcycle on an 8000 mile trip, with Spirit Airlines First Officer Daniel Schafer who also rode a bike of the same model, from Taos, NM to Seattle, WA and back
- mapping every drive-able road between Taos and Angel Fire, NM in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from the back of a motorcycle
- riding his motorcycle from Seattle into British Columbia and back on dirt roads
- a trans-canadian road trip with 3 friends and 3 motorcycles on a trailer
- backpacking 100’s of miles across New Mexico on multi-week trips such as BSA’s Philmont
- sailing the Florida Keys over the course of a week on a 75ft steel schooner
- making the pilgrimage to the William Wallace monument in Stirling Scotland
- playing 1st trumpet in the SACS Jazz Band world tour of 2012
- getting drawn & quartered in the streets of London… (wait, wrong Wallace)
Here are a few lesser known fun facts about William:
- Vehicles William has operated
- His 2009 Hybrid Tahoe experienced Hybrid related issues in 2017. No Chevy dealers knew how to fix the problem due to the Hybrid Tahoe’s rarity so William emailed the chief engineer for General Motor’s hybrid division directly. He then proceeded to fix it himself using the valuable intelligence leaked. Ever since then William has identified himself as a self proclaimed GM engineer. Problem solved… for now.
- He met one of his role models, the most interesting man in the world, during a launch event for Takis at a Jewish synagogue. (Jonathan Goldsmith– the actor in the older Dos Equis commercials.)
- He sat down in Seattle with the man responsible for Times New Roman and Comic Sands – Greg Hitchcock. They talked about font designs, what their favorite fonts were, and developing a new font easily readable for kids with special needs and/or dyslexia.
- William is thankful for his friends in high places @ Microsoft. (@manwholikespie)
- He once hit the speed limiter in a Tesla while driving through a school zone with the set director for Seinfeld (Thomas Azzari) in the passenger seat.
- William was given a conference table from Boeing. He picked it up from their Everett assembly plant and while doing so got to drive the Hybrid Tahoe along the assembly line in close proximity to brand new 777x’s.
- He holds the only known ground-travel time record between San Antonio and Nashville @ 11hrs 9min 49.02 seconds.
- William (and Spirit FO Daniel) hold the only case on record of having fought a speeding ticket in Federal Court via a Zoom call.
- William and his friends worked as white-hat hackers.
- William has never broken a bone.
- (new for 2020!) William has not tested positive for COVID-19.
- (new for 2021!) William tested positive for COID-19 (after getting the shot…)
- William hates writing about himself in 3rd person but a college professor recommended it for this website.
Countries William has set foot in (not including layovers):
- USA (41/50 states)
- Canada (5/10 provinces)
- Mexico
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- France
- Belgium
- The Netherlands
States and U.S. Territories William has set foot in (not including layovers):
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
