My name is Mountain.

Yes, really.

I started The Catholic Traveler in 2004. Since then, I’ve personally led nearly 200 pilgrimages. I moved to Rome in 2014 and live just steps from Saint Peter’s Basilica.

Before all this, I spent a decade in the music industry. I’ve worked with the Vatican, met a few popes, taken Moby grocery shopping, spent a night drinking Tequila Sunrises with Robert Smith, and somehow I’m the reason Chick-fil-A says “my pleasure.”

More weird stuff about me →

Mountain with a pilgrimage group in the hills of Ireland
Every person in this photo is a repeat traveler. Together, they’ve taken 94.5 trips with me across 22 countries.

There’s a reason people travel with me again.

More than 250 of my travelers have come back for another trip.

Some have traveled with me more than ten times.

That probably tells you more than an About page ever could.