Adam Compton is the Assistant Head of School at New River Academy.  He holds a double-majored B.A. in History and Anthropology along with an M.A. in History qualifying him as the U.S. History, U.S. Government, A.P. U.S. Government, and Leadership teacher. 

Adam began kayaking 8 years ago in Texas.  As one might imagine, this meant many road trips for Adam.  After criss-crossing the country and driving multiple cars into the ground, Adam began looking for jobs in the Asheville, NC area.  When offered the opportunity to work for New River Academy, Adam leapt at the opportunity to combine his passions for travel, kayaking, and teaching the social studies. 

Many find the demands of travel quite rigorous.  However, Adam grew up travelling regularly.  Thus, he often finds the"discomforts" of travel more comfortable than the comforts of home, especially with Brian at Comic Relief in San Marcos, TX regularly shipping Adam's comics to him at a variety of locations.  Based on his love of travel and comic books, Adam has built this blog to document the groups travel experiences with a comic levity brought by the New River Gnome.