I am an urban planner in New Brunswick, New Jersey where I am working on completing a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School at Rutgers University. My primary focus is in transportation, specifically bicycle and pedestrian planning, public transit and the relationship between transportation and land use. I also have experience and interest in urban design and site planning. My main goal as a transportation planner is to help communities become more vibrant and healthy by encouraging development in a way that facilitates pedestrian activity and transit use, providing more choices for those who do not wish to be dependent upon an automobile. I graduated from North Carolina State University and spent my life in the Charlotte and Raleigh areas before moving to New Jersey. My resume and a portfolio with some work samples can be accessed via the links in the header.

The remaining content on this site is made up of photo journals from trips I have taken over the last several years. I find them fun to write and enjoy revisiting them months or years later, so it is as much for me as readers. For nearly 20 years or so I have been very interested in amusement parks and roller coasters; those articles are consistently the most popular on the site and it is by nature a very photogenic subject, so I tend to publish a disproportionate amount of them compared to other topics. I have been on 364 coasters (full list here) at 77 parks in the United States and Europe, and keep a list of my favorite coasters and parks here.

Any comments or questions about this site can be directed to me by clicking the Contact link in the header.