Travis grew up in Maine, and loved the great outdoors. He spent his winters snowboarding and his summers golfing. Upon graduation from high school, he moved westward to follow his dreams of becoming a professional snowboarder. After a number of years traveling around the country snowboarding, he decided to call it quits and head to college to study Marketing and to play golf. He enrolled in business courses at New Mexico State University. Graduating with a degree in Marketing, and having become a great golfer, he decided to pursue golf as a Professional, at which point he began playing on a golf tour in New England. After a number of injuries, he decided to put golf on hold, and he headed out west again, this time to pursue modeling and acting.