Robert, the adventurer

It couldn’t be more fitting that Robert was asked to be a part of the 100-year-old Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles. Founded by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 for adventurers and explorers, it is an all-male club where members meet to discuss and present their latest exploits and adventures from around the world. The best nights, however, are the ever-increasing ladies nights where women visit or share their adventures as well. A few years ago, Robert was invited to put on a presentation entitled “40 Years of Adventure.” After the presentation, he was immediately offered membership, which he graciously accepted.

Some of Robert’s adventures from the presentation include:

• Arctic day and night scuba jumps near the Aleutian Islands
• A winter mountain-climbing ascent attempt of 20,300 feet up Alaska’s Mt. McKinley
• Winter Arctic rescues in Alaska and on Mt. McKinley
• Parachuting near the North Pole
• Smuggling literature into the former Soviet Block Countries during the Cold War, and smuggling political documents out
• Robert delivering to Europe a vehicle designed by a US motor-home factory for smuggling materials into the former Soviet Union
• Sailing from the Canary Islands in Spain across the Atlantic to the US Virgin Islands
• Sailing from Israel to Crete in a major Mediterranean storm and sending out multiple “May Day” calls.
• Diving with great whites twice in South Africa
• Jumping off the highest bungee jump in the world (at the time) in Zimbabwe Africa.
• A 3-day river rafting adventure on the Orange River on the border of Namibia and South Africa
• Snowboarding outside Beijing
• 10 trips to Beijing
• 12 Trips to Moscow
• 15 trips to Africa
• Earning 4 Million Miles with American Airlines and its One World Partners in Over 30 Nations
• Meeting with underground political leaders in Asia and teaching on democracy on multiple occasions
• Traveling to the Solomon Islands and “The Iron Bottom Sound” to scuba and free dive over sunken WWII vessels