ABOUT ME

I'm a college student who took a gap year from university a few years ago to travel across Asia. Did everything from spotting wild rhinos in northeast India to drinking fermented mare's milk with Kyrgyz nomads to hitchhiking through the Cambodian jungle in a makeshift tractor made of planks strapped to a motorbike engine.

After all this time on the road, I want the chance to give back and help and host other fellow travelers. School takes up a big chunk of my time, and I'm currently living with roommates, but if you're a hitchhiker or cyclist or other traveler I'll definitely try to give you a place to crash.

PHILOSOPHY

"The mountains are calling and I must go."
- John Muir

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Met some of the most incredible and generous people in Asia over my last ten months of traveling.

Now that I've come to the end of the road, I want to give back, help out other travelers

For me and for the people who introduced me to couchsurfing, this site has never been about a free place to stay but instead about cultural understanding, travelers helping out other travelers, and all of us making this already small world smaller

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Nothing but great experiences all around. I've surfed city high-rises, straw-mat floors in cramped student apartments and one-room farmhouses in the Indian desert.

Interests

Grew up running, trekking, camping, skiing, rock climbing and just generally exploring the mountains and deserts of New Mexico and the American Southwest

Played trumpet for ~10 years. Did some really cool jazz stuff in Chicago, trying to learn improvisation and music theory better

Became a pretty dedicated meditator (mostly vipassana, but trying to learn some more concentration/samatha techniques) - spent a month in a Burmese monastery practicing vipassana

Picked up a math major at college, playing with abstract things that don't actually exist in the real world

• writing
• photography
• cooking
• running
• meditation
• traveling
• jazz
• trumpet
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• skiing
• rock climbing
• languages
• mathematics
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: "I like everything," but i guess to be more specific I usually find myself listening to Hip-hop/R&B (Brockhampton, Frank Ocean, SZA etc.), Midwest Emo (American Football, Chinese Football, Clever Girl), Classical (Older guys like Bach, but also weirder modern stuff like Ligeti), Jazz (I play trumpet, so miles davis, freddie gibbs, clifford brown etc)

Books/Writing: The Sound and the Fury, The Critique of Pure Reason, American Pastoral, Frankenstein, The White Tiger, Murakami books, David Foster Wallace I guess, travelogues by Ryzyard Kapuczyinsky (however you spell it), essays by Mark Fisher, poems by Robert Hass, Paul Celan and Louise Gluck

Movies: Shaolin Soccer, miyazaki movies, everything by wong kar wai,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trekked the full Annapurna circuit

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to learn more about your home country and hear all your travel stories

I can teach you a tiny bit of programming, math/science, languages, meditation, writing or photography if you'd like. I can also make food that's edible, generally.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can help you out around the house/apartment, I can tell you stories, teach some of the stuff above etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States