Kendal grew up in Kansas and Iowa where she spent most of her time playing sports or exploring the great outdoors with the neighborhood kids. Summer road trips across the country to visit family in Texas and California sparked a love of travel and experiencing life outside of her Midwest bubble. In 2006, Kendal graduated from the University of Iowa where she majored in graphic design and received a minor journalism. Not long after graduation, she moved to Philadelphia where she spent many long weekends roadtripping up and down the east coast from North Carolina to Maine. But the Rockies soon came calling and she made the move to Boulder where she began working at Nat Hab in marketing. Beyond her extensive travel across the U.S., Kendal has been fortunate to travel across North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.