Forrest Yelverton

This is my second Habitat International Build (Nepal 2010) as Roger’s allure just keeps me coming back for more. I am recently liberated from 21 years as Engineering VP at a major publicly owned corporation and do not miss a single thing about my old life. I spend roughly 300 hours on a plane every year between travel for work and travel for fun or both and this will be my second venture into South America but first time to Bolivia.

My passion is bicycles. I design them, I build them, I ride them and my latest focus is the development of more elegant and efficient ways of getting one and their “stuff” from where they are to where they want to go...on a bike. When not working or riding on a bike, I’m working on the house that my wife and I built in the Colorado mountains near Lyons. We recently installed 8 more solar thermal panels in a continuing effort to be energy independent in anticipation of the coming global economic and financial collapse.

Thanks to our geriatric bird dog my wife of 29 years unfortunately can not attend the Bolivia build (She did attend Nepal) but would have been a valuable addition with her vast quiver of construction skills spanning more than 35 years! But, I’ll be telling the great stories of this build to her and my 21 year old Daughter currently studying in Kenya and Tanzania.