About Me

About Me

Self-Portrait in the mirror, kind of dumb I know.

12/29/2003

7/19/2003

Hi, Mark Seibert here from Moab Utah with my own little piece of the web! I have lived here in the Moab area most of my 34 years, except for 11+ months in Colorado and 10 months in Georgia.

There is so much to do here in the Moab area. We have some of the best: Four Wheeling, mountain biking, motorcycling, hiking, river rafting, camping, rock climbing, and kayaking in the country. It's great to have the river, the desert, the rocks and the near 13,000 foot peaks all just a short distance of each other.

Before moving to Moab I grew up at Castle Valley Academy (now Daystar Adventist Academy) in Castle Valley right next door to Moab. I graduated from high school there in 1993 and stayed on as staff for 2.5 years. While staff there I was in charge of the grounds, the orchards and the auto shop, which kept me very busy and gave me a verity of things to do.

Since the spring of 1997 I have worked as mechanic for Griffith River Expeditions. Work with the company slowed in the later years so I began to take up the slack doing more private jobs for company employees, friends and the general public, all through word of mouth, which kept me pretty busy for a while but in the fall of 2004 things really slowed down so starting in January 2005 I got my truck all setup to work in the RV transport industry, which involves towing travel trailers and 5th wheels from the manufacturer in Northern Indiana to dealers all over the US and Canada. I didn't like this job much but it paid okay and helped me get out of debt faster which was the whole point. I made it to thirty-nine states and four Canadian provinces. See my "From The Road" galleries located here for a few pictures of my driving experience. As of 6/29/07 I have quit driving and am back at Griffith Expeditions where I will do what I was doing before until I figure something else out. I put 265k miles on the truck during this time for a total of 387k on the clock when I quit (over 400k now).

Some of the things I do for fun include: dirt biking, four wheeling, snow skiing, hiking, camping, listening to music, hanging with friends, rock climbing, and working out at home or at the local fitness center (when time and money allow). I also enjoy computers and the Internet .Back in 1995 I bought my first PC, which was probably the last one I will ever buy (aside from laptops). Ever since then I have built my own systems from parts, which is a lot more fun and I end up with the hardware configurations I want this way. Before getting into PCs in '95 I had a Commodore 64/128 for a few years.

Photography is something I enjoy quite a bit. Back in 2002 I finally purchased a digital camera, which has been a lot of fun but it's old and slow now! At some point when I can afford it I would like to get a nice assortment of filters, lenses and a digital SLR to hang it all on but for now I use what I have. Look at my gallery to see a few of my pictures.