Both.
After high school I attained my EMT as well as went to Hawaii on my own at a tender age to run in the Honolulu Marathon. After I came back from Hawaii I started to drive ambulance for a few different companies. I was recruited by a friend to come work for another company who pioneers in mobile medical clinics. There, I learned how to operate large vehicles. This unit was huge and worth in 1980 dollars $1.6 million. The units were similar to this:
I was fortunate enough to transport some of these vehicles from the SF Bay Area to Long Beach Ca and on another occasion from Long Beach to Corpus Christi Texas. So in just a few years I was infected with the love of going places and the challenge of big vehicles.
Now fast forward to 2005. I moved to Maui, imagine that... and put a few stamps in the passport along the way. There on Maui I was working part time as a driver for Maui Downhill http://www.mauidownhill.com/
No plug here, just a great experience. Basically, packing a 15 passenger van with a trailer full of bikes, make one's way up the mountain, place riders on bikes, and back down the mountain for some real aloha fun.
