The last year of my life has been filled with many great adventures and fun times spent with friends. I’ve traveled the country more than ever, following the Formula Drift Series, and have even found my way overseas to Rudskogen, Norway for Gatebil and Tianjin, China for the World Drift Series. I’ve done so much in such a short amount of time that I’m finding it difficult to keep it all in. Luckily, I’m a member of the media, which is a group of people who are constantly taking photos and video of each other for fun. I’m grateful to have hundreds of photographs reminding me where I’ve been and terabytes of footage as evidence of my shenanigans. Another method of holding on to good memories is to collect pocket-sized reminders along the way. For instance, this year I’ve kept a Volkswagen badge that fell off a car racing up Pikes Peak and a photograph slide/business card from my good friend Lieze Truter in Georgia. Pictured above is a small portion of a patch collection dating back as far as 1992, given to me by my grandfather when I was only four years old.
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