An engineer who quit the cubicle life after just four months, Bruce Kirkby is now a widely recognized writer and photographer, and a Starboard team rider. His two decades of travel include a crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a raft descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge, and a 13,000-mile overland journey to Ladakh with his family. Read about that adventure in his most recent book, Blue Sky Kingdom.