How a tattoo changed my life
As I write this post I’ve found myself married and living in Northern Finland and it all stems from a tattoo I got a few years back. This is a story so weird that I thought I would take the time to write about how little things like this can change someones life forever.
Who
My name is Kyle Miller and I was born and raised near Seattle Washington where my family immigrated from Finland back in the 1880’s and was the third generation to call that corner of the world home. Growing up I was the exact opposite of sporty with a life filled with video games, television and more video games until I turned 20. After experiencing a fatal car crash and developing PTSD I was introduced to snowboarding. What was supposed by be a quick fix became an obsession as I bought a seasons pass to my local ski hill (Crystal Mountain) after the first few days of snowboarding not realizing that this would forever change my life. After a single season of riding the resort daily a friend had bought a splitboard and basically said if you want to keep riding with me you need to get one too. At the time (2001) Splitboards were unheard of and through the kindness of the local Burton rep he gave me one that was collecting dust in his storage and I was off on yet again another life changing sport.
Since this is a website based on snowboarding not traveling (though I am more than happy to accept funding) I’m going to keep this story short. My brother was getting married in Vietnam Mid June and I was going to New Zealand mid July so I decided to do a few layovers to see what SE Asia was like as I would probably never have the chance again. So enjoy Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia.
I went from this
To this in less than 96 hours
