Personal Interests
Travel & Outdoor Activities
Growing up in Wyoming and Nebraska, I’ve loved outdoor activities for as long as I can remember. I’m a big skier, and I enjoy hiking/camping and bicycling. Here are some of the places I’ve hiked, camped, or skied over the last several years:
Mason Myers
- United States
- Ventana Wilderness in the Los Padres National Forest
- Yellowstone National Park
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Sierra Nevadas/Yosemite
- Three Sisters, Oregon
- Maine (Mt. Katahdin)
- Glacier National Park
- Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
- Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Acadia National Park
- Mt. Washington (New Hampshire)
- Africa
- Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
- Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda
- Mana Pools, Matusadona, and Hwange National Parks, Zimbabwe
- Serengheti National Park, Tanzania
- Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
- Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
- Canada
- Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
- Selkirk and Monashee Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
- Cape Breton National Park in Nova Scotia
- Banff/Jasper
- South America
- Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, Peru
- Parque Nacional Torres Del Paine, Chilean Patagonia
Books and Reading
Off the top of my head, here is a list of some of the books I’ve found most interesting over the past few years.
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- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. by Ron Chernow
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert Rubin
- Personal History by Katherine Graham
- The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture by Manuel Castells
- Strategy by B.H. Liddell Hart
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
- High Tech Start Up by John Nesheim. John advised us in the starting of The Main Quad.
- Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
- The First American by H.W. Brands
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
- Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
- Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
I’m a big fan of eReaders, and Kindle in particular. Shelfari allows you to check out some of the books I’m reading or have read in the past, complete with reviews and links to purchase!
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