Profile: Mr. Avalon is a Senior Writer for LushForLife.com, as well as the Chief On-site Correspondent, doing most of his work in the field. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and spent his youth in several different states in the Northeast. After withdrawing from University of California at Berkley after two semesters, Avalon began writing for The Surge, a San Francisco based underground publication, and received national accolades for his precise, intuitive reporting style. He went on to write for The Los Angeles Times, where he was a columnist, and later worked for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, where he was the youngest Editor-in-Chief to ever work for them. During his tenure at the Times-Picayune, he was introduced to future LushForLife.com colleague Danny Albertson. Avalon now lives in Tampa, Florida, where he writes for LushForLife.com and continues to pursue his life-long passion of achieving heightened spiritual awareness through sensory depravation. During the summer months, Avalon still finds time to go back to New Orleans, where he still owns a condo in the historical French Quarter.