PATRICK [Ethos] gained invaluable life experience and writing legitimacy through his distinctive life experiences. For starters he took both a Honda and Yamaha motorcycle for a spin across the Andes and jungles of Peru—for a distance over 2300 kilometers.
PATRICK'S newfound confidence gained through surviving an individually rugged South American backpacking itinerary, emboldened him to fly to Southeast Asia where he proceeded to rip around on a Yamaha scooter across Malaysia and Thailand for a distance over 2200 kilometers.
During the beginning of the COVID state of emergency and global pandemic PATRICK was back in South America, in Peru; while most humans were locked down in a comfortable shelter PATRICK bought his own wooden boat and managed to travel down the Marañón River solo—a principle river and mainstem source of the Amazon River—from Yurimaguas all the way to Nauta for a total of five days and four nights alone on the river.
PATRICK'S adventures across the world are vast and too numerous to detail on a single page however his extraordinary achievement of exploring planet Earth by way of gasoline and leg power has empowered PATRICK in his quest for spiritual knowledge, solidified his name and clarified his voice as a writer.