Dr. Ted Stankowich

I wasn't a real outdoorsy kid.

You weren't?

No, I was a nerdy kid who liked his books and liked to go to the museum and got into biology in high school eventually and then made a career out of it, yeah.

So I was not a kid who was going to be spending every waking hour in the forest or in the field as a kid, yeah.

My mother was an educator.

My dad was a high school teacher as well.

He did take us when I think I was probably eight.

And then again, when I was 10, cross country and back by car.

First time we saw national parks.

And so that was my big, really early intro to seeing national parks all over the country.

I've been to 48 of the 50 states.

So that time was sort of very formative to see nature and really get that experience.

And you sort of fall in love with the experience of that.

So if you ever get a chance to drive across the country and see just national parks and amazing landscapes that are out there, it's really a great experience.

Especially you can take your kids.

It's just a transformative type of thing that they'll experience.

So, yeah.

Hawaii.

And South Carolina.

Yeah, yeah.