Ben entered Backroads via its delicious backstage, as a Camp Chef, just one year after completing his undergraduate degree in Linguistics at University of California at Santa Cruz. Despite having studied abroad in Switzerland, volunteered in the Amazon and acted in Mexico City, he’s never found a place that beats his homeland of Northern California. But the search continues— as does the search for the perfect taco (the best one so far is in a place called Camalú, in case you were wondering). Outside of Backroads, he is currently revising and editing his second novel.