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Hello, 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 life, except for 11+ months in Colorado, 10 months in Georgia and as you will see below I also lived on the road for most of 2.5 years. There is a lot to do here in the Moab area if you have the money to buy all the toys and equipment to take advantage it. 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 from 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 variety of things to do, which I like. 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 involved 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 goal. I made it to forty states and four Canadian provinces while out there. See my "From The Road" gallery located here for a few pictures of my driving experience. On 6/29/07 I quit driving and went back to work at Griffith Expeditions. I put 265k miles on the truck during this time for a total of 387k on the clock when I quit (over 407k now and going strong)! I still don't have full time work at the shop so the last few winters I have worked maintenance at Moab Valley Inn. Some of the things I do for fun include: dirt biking, four wheeling, snow skiing, hiking, camping, listening to music and hanging with friends. I also enjoy working with computers quite a bit. Back in 1995 I bought my first PC, which was probably the last PC "system" I will ever buy (aside from laptops). Ever since then I have built my own systems from parts, which is a lot of fun and I end up with the hardware configurations I want this way. Before getting into PCs I had a Commodore 64/128 for a few years. There was no hard drive in that thing, you had to load each program from 5-1/4" floppy disk by typing in a specific command line for each program. I never experienced the joys of a tape drive. Photography is hobby I enjoy quite a bit. Back in 2002 I purchased my first digital camera, which was a lot of fun but it's very old and slow now! In May of 2011 I finally purchased a DSLR camera. Look at my gallery to see a few of my pictures. Some pictures in there are scans from an old basic film camera. In November 2009 I purchased a Davis electronic weather station. I now have my own weather site and cameras that auto update 24/7. I also upload current weather data to various networks including CWOP, Weather Underground and Weather For You. Update: I have taken the station offline as I'm out of the area for a while and don't want to manage it long distance. Home | My Ram | Ram Modifications | Gallery | Outreach | Mission Trip | Moab Weather | Site Map | Contact |
