About

My name is Shawn Burns. I live on the San Francisco Peninsula. This blog here, Backpacking Dad, is not a hiking resource. It’s mostly stories.

I’m a Canadian transplant to California. I’m married to Emily, the pretty one who shows up on the blog from time to time. We have two kids, Erin and Adrian. They aren’t in school yet, but I am, and have been forever. I study philosophy, which is a lot like saying “I married well.”

You can e-mail me if you wish. backpackingdad at backpackingdad dot com or use my contact page to tell me something.

You can also follow me on Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/backpackingdad

For the even more stalkerish among you, you can be my friend on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/backpackingdad or add me as a LinkedIn Contact http://www.linkedin.com/in/backpackingdad.

If you are a marketer or PR person, Hi! I’ve done some really awesome product reviews, and some really terrible product reviews, and mostly I don’t do product reviews. But, if you have something you’d like me to look at and talk about with the vast army of readers who live in my computer then send me an e-mail and I will probably e-mail you back. Maybe. It’s happened before.

Thanks for reading.