CURRENT MISSION

To provide adventurous souls with a free, safe, and memorable place to stay.

ABOUT ME

Driven by wanderlust, voracious reader, lover of stand-up comedy, audiobooks, sports, (quality) podcasts, planning my next trip. From the age of 16, I spent years living in Mexico, Guatemala, Switzerland, culminating with seven months in Buenos Aires, which ended abruptly on March 8th, 2015, with a 95%-death TBI, left-ear deafness, and epilepsy. Seventh and final brain-surgery was completed last week, head normal-shape again, it's all downhill from here.

Travel remains a core component of my life; I just spent three weeks in Peru, and plan on spending three-four months in Europe this summer. From the age of sixteen, literally everything I've done has been in relation to future travel plans.

I'm living in a 2bd house in SW Austin. Trying to update profile from my phone. Will gradually update this profile, feel free to contact me directly.

PHILOSOPHY

Lo que será, será.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've never actually been hosted, since I've usually befriended locals when traveling. I hope to provide others with the hospitality that I've been shown so often.

COUCHSURFING

Interests

Learning (books/podcasts), Travel, Adventure, Meeting new people, Spurs/Patriots, Stand Up comedy

• books
• wine
• gardening
• politics
• board games
• traveling
• podcasts
• sports
• basketball
• badminton
• football
• bike riding
• rollerblading
• frisbee
• vaping
• cooking and baking
• playing cards
• epilepsy
• edibles

Music, Movies, and Books

Podcast Favorites: Waking Up w/ Sam Harris, Joe Rogan Experience, Cracked, Fighter and the Kid, WTF, Planet Money, Fresh Air, On Point, Tim Ferriss Show, Debate God, Freethought Radio, TED, Savage Lovecast, Lapham's Quarterly, Inquiring Minds, Tech Stuff, Forward Thinking, Sex Nerd Sandra, Sex w/ Emily, Kinsey, Tangentially Speaking, Fivethirtyeight Elections, Hidden Brain, Loveline, StarTalk Radio, 92Y Talks, Jocko podcast, New York Public Library, New Yorker Out Loud, Nerdist, Big Ideas, Talk Nerdy, Drunken Taoist, Hardcore History w/ Dan Carlin, CHIASMOS, Dr. Drew, You Are Not So Smart, Terrence McNally, Smart Drug Smarts, Sex with Emily, Intelligence Squared debates, Point of Inquiry, This American Life, Radiolab, Kinsey Confidential, Kinsey Institute, How To Do Everything, Freakonomics Radio, Ten Minute Podcast, The Moth!, Tai Lopez, Travel w/ Rick Steves

Books: Ken Follett, Chris Donaghue, Thomas Friedman, Rolf Potts, Ray Kurzweil, Malcolm Gladwell, Freakonomics et Al, A Song of Fire and Ice, Orson Scott Card, Name of the Wind, Sam Harris (favorite non-fiction author, but especially Waking Up), Richard Dawkins, Larry McMurty, John Krakaur, Outlander series, Dan Brown, The Historian, Rolf Potts, Lee Child, Christopher fucking Hitchens, Michael Lewis, Stephen Hawking, Stieg Larsson, Michael Shermer, Tim Ferriss, Niall Ferguson, Brian Greene, Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan, and fuck off, we all have guilty pleasures, Harry Potter.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived in Mexico on $700 for a year without speaking Spanish, knowing anybody, or having a place to live.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories. Lots of stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, Switzerland, United States