I have bad spelling. But if I've been there, I'll tell you about it!

I have been surfing my whole life. I love the ocean and often refer to it as my church. However, for the last few years I have put my surfing on hold to be a full blown snowboarding powder hound and moto-doggin'dirtbiker. As of May 2006 I have been back in the ocean riding waves in Fiji, Australia, Indonesia and Hong Kong.

I was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii. I grew up at the beach surfing with the boys who later came to be known as the Backsiders. In 2000 I embarked on the "Tour O' B.Downes!" My first stop was Boulder, Colorado and not long after I was cruising with the biggest Rock Stars in the Rockies. Since then I drove the Mainland United States, tended bar in Wisconsin and snowboarded my face off in Tahoe for a season. After a short stop home in Kona, I took off on a boat trip throughout Fiji, embarked on a New Zealand extravaganza and toured the East Coast of the Australian continent. I have been island hooping in Indonesian, scuba diving in Thailand and zipping through the jungle canopy in Laos. Now I am in Hong Kong having the greatest time of my life!