Asher has been traveling the world since he left Australia to study in the USA in 2004. He received a Master’s in Business Administration degree in 2013. He has lived all over the globe including India, Europe, Hawaii, and mainland US. He enjoys researching the travel industry, loves being a dad, cooking & eating delicious food, photography (took many of our photos), surfing big waves on Maui, camping trips and walking barefoot on the earth.
Eight Interesting Facts About Asher:
1) He has lived in all of these different places (in this order)!
- Mosman, Sydney, Australia (birthplace)
- Manly, Sydney, Australia
- Collaroy, Sydney, Australia
- Fairfield, IA, USA (met Lyric)
- Vlodrop, Holland
- India
- Fairfield, IA, USA
- Turkey
- Germany
- London, UK
- India
- Belgium
- Fairfield, IA, USA (got engaged)
- Ojai, CA, USA (got married)
- Maui, HI, USA
- Fairfield, IA, USA (had our kids here)
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Maui, Hawaii
- And here are some other places he’s visited for shorter trips and vacations: Italy, France, Ireland, Greece, Switzerland, Scotland, Austria, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Mexico, Belize, Honduras and Canada.
2) He has been surfing since age 7, loves riding 20ft waves on Maui, and his favorite beach is called “golf course”.
3) He spent three years on “Purusha” as a yogi-monk meditating 6 – 8 hours per day.
4) He loves camping in the outdoors. In 1999 he crossed the Simpson Desert (1,000 sand dunes in the Australian Outback) with his family on a month-long 4WD camping adventure.
5) He has been a lifelong vegetarian, but he is very supportive of his “paleo” wife. 😉
6) He was the valedictorian of both his high school and university graduating classes.
7) He can solve a Rubik’s cube in under 3 minutes and loves numbers and graphs (nerd alert!).
8) He has 3 brothers: one in London, UK, one in Whistler, Canada and one in Sydney, Australia. He’s only seen them a handful of times since leaving Australia in 2004.
