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I grew up in the Bronx.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

I used to think I'd like to have been a pioneer on the Oregon Trail, experience untamed America.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.