My step-father, C.N. Taylor, grew up a friend of Rick Hendricks and has been involved with automotive motorsports for most of his life.  He was also a member of Geoff Bodine's pitcrew (front tire changer) when Geoff drove for Rick and the All Star Racing and Levi Garrett Nascar racing teams.  He also bought me a kart when I was about 11 years old.  I practiced with a childhood friend at a kart track in Concord, NC and planned on racing junior boxstock.  However, I moved to Minnesota and Wisconsin, for a year each, to live with my biological father before I actually started competing.  By the time I moved back to NC, my parents had sold my kart so I never got back into the sport. 

My father and the rest of my Wisconsin family are big into hunting,  fishing, and camping which I also enjoy very much.  During my childhood I would visit Wisconsin each summer.  My father, grandparents, and I would also go on fishing trips to norther WI and Canada where the fishing is excellent.  My father and I also enjoyed canoeing trips down the black river.