David Stewart Freeman

Author, Adventurer. A graduate of the University of Southern California in 1983, he began his professional life as an advertising agency executive in Newport Beach, California before moving to New York City, New York to join Grey Advertising in 1986. After personally witnessing the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, he returned home to Southern California where he later joined the ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day. In 1999 he co-wrote with Neil Teplica, the best selling unconventional travel guide "100 Things to Do Before You Die", a work that created a travel agenda based on 100 sites which featured physical, cultural and/or spiritual adventure. David Freeman had visited approximately half of the places listed in the book before he died in August of 2008.