Hey! 👋 I’m Ross and welcome to my website. Here’s a bit about me and an explanation of this site’s title.

I was born in Cyprus to English/South African parents. After a stint in South Africa, our family moved to Vancouver, Canada where I grew up and went to school. At 17, I moved Montreal to study at McGill then lived there thoughout my twenties. In 2016, left Montreal and spent the summer walking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). This sparked a burning a desire to travel and spend more time in the outdoors. I haven’t looked back since.

After the PCT, I lived out of a bag for a year while working remotely and travelling. In the summer of 2018, I moved into a camperized Sprinter van named Betsy which was my full time home for over three years. In 2022, my now wife Anne and I began travelling together across Canada and the US. Betsy is still our faithful steed, but we’ve spent most of our time living in AirBnBs and rentals. While we’re slowly beginning to “settle down” in Montreal, I don’t see us staying in one place for too long. The nomad life is addictive.

The majority of this blog is dedicated to my adventures in the sport of ultra running. I took up running seriously in 2013 and quickly got the trail and ultra bug. I ran my first 50km in 2015 and have since run several 100 milers. I occasionally post stuff on Instagram and Twitter.

Finish line of the Carlsbad Marathon in 2023

Professionally, I work as a software developer, currently doing frontend development for Paytient. Even though I mostly JavaScript/TypeScript these days, I worked with Ruby/Rails for several years. You can visit my CV website or the projects page to see some stuff I’ve built. For inquiries, I’m on LinkedIn.