Personal

Some of my primary personal interests include hiking, bouldering, travel, 1950s and 1960s jazz, 1970s films, 1980 and 1990s metal and grunge music, Japanese fiction on screen and the page, and University of Michigan sports. One of my lifetime projects is to climb the highest point in each of the fifty states. So far, I have bagged forty-seven, including:

California, 2001 (el. 14,494 ft.)

Colorado, 2009 (el. 14,433 ft.)

Washington, 2012 (el. 14,409 ft.)

Hawaii, 2005 (el. 13,796 ft.)

Utah, 2011 (el. 13,528)

New Mexico, 2009 (el. 13,161 ft.)

Nevada, 2001 (el. 13,143 ft.)

Montana, 2016 (el. 12,799)

Idaho, 2013 (el. 12,667 ft.)

Arizona, 2007 (el. 12,633 ft.)

Texas, 2010 (el. 8,749 ft.)

South Dakota, 2008 (el. 7,242 ft.)

North Carolina (el. 6,684 ft.)

Tennessee (el. 6,643 ft.)

New Hampshire, 1995 (el. 6,288 ft.)

Virginia, 2001 (el. 5,729 ft.)

New York (el. 5,344 ft.)

Maine, 2004 (el. 5,268 ft.)

Nebraska, 2008 (el. 5,242 ft.)

Oklahoma, 2018 (el. 4,973 ft.)

West Virginia (el. 4,863 ft.)

Georgia (el. 4,784 ft.)

Vermont, 1997 (el. 4,393 ft.)

Kentucky, 2001 (el. 4,145 ft.)

Kansas, 1998 (el. 4,039 ft.)

South Carolina (el. 3,560 ft.)

North Dakota, 2008 (el. 3,506 ft.)

Massachussetts, 2000 (el. 3,491 ft.)

Maryland, 2004 (el. 3,360 ft.)

Pennsylvania, 2004 (el. 3,213 ft.)

Arkansas, 2015 (el. 2,753)

Alabama (el. 2,407 ft.)

Connecticut, 2001 (el. 2,380 ft.)

Minnesota, 2019 (el. 2301 ft.)

Michigan, 2013 (el. 1,979 ft.)

Wisconsin, 2001 (el. 1,951 ft.)

New Jersey, 2000 (el. 1,803 ft.)

Missouri, 2015 (el. 1,772 ft.)

Iowa, 2005 (el. 1670 ft.)

Ohio, 2002 (el. 1,550 ft.)

Indiana, 2002 (el. 1,257 ft.)

Illinois, 2003 (el. 1,235 ft.)

Rhode Island (el. 812 ft.)

Mississippi, 2001 (el. 806 ft.)

Louisiana, 2002 (el. 535 ft.)

Delaware, (el. 448 ft.)

Florida, 2001 (el. 345 ft.)

And:

District of Columbia, 2005 (el. 410 ft.)

St. Martin, 1999 (el. 1378 ft.)