CURRENT MISSION

Get away from the tourist filled tents of Oktoberfest and really soak in the celebration with the locals

ABOUT ME

Being a full time student for the past seven years, traveling gets to be difficult. I love to travel (once a month) but have been couch surfing from friends of friends. I now want to venture to places where I don't know anyone and still get a feel for the local culture. I can't afford an extravagant trip but still need to travel the world while I can. I often travel solo, simply because my friends don't have the money to pay for the airfare. I love it this way, I can see what I want, when I want, and be social and meet new interesting people.

PHILOSOPHY

work hard, play harder.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

WHOA! I've been couch surfing for years! I didn't realize there was a site to help me do it! I just found friends of friends that lived in places I wanted to go! This is awesome!
I hosted all summer and fell in love with Minneapolis all over again. After a year break, I am planning on surfing my fifth continent!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing:
January 2011 (Tucson): Andrew Christian
March 2011 (Puerto Rico): Thomas Humphrey
July 2011 (Tour de Germany): Jens Lammel
July 2011 (Amsterdam): Luc
July 2011 (Paris): Mohammad
July 2011 (Barcelona): Javier
July 2011 (Dublin): Toufic
July 2011 (London): Pete
December 2011 (Angra dos Reis): Kelvin
December 2011 (Rio de Janerio): Felicio & Ana
December 2012 (Nicaragua): Luis-Alberto
December 2013 (Sydney): Sean
January 2014 (Melbourne): Phill
January 2014 (Adelaide): Tony
January 2014 (Alice Springs): Jason
January 2014 (Cairns): Matt
January 2014 (Sydney): Evin

Hosting:
June 2011: Dave O'Connor
November 2011: Peter Alrich
May 2012: Marian Barath
May 2012: Fedora
July 2012: Nick
December 2012: Andrew Christian
May 2013: Steven Hardy
June 2013: Zach
July 2013: Aaron
July 2013: Adam
July 2013: Scott & Michelle
July 2013: Chris
July 2013: Audrey
August 2013: Jesse
August 2013: David
August 2013: Ben
August 2013: Wesley
September 2013: Kan
September 2013: Conrad
October 2013: Adam

Traveling:
June 2011 (Athens): Pol
July 2011 (Berlin): Marian Barath
July 2011 (Prague/Vienna): Glenn
July 2011 (Prague): Dan Yost
July 2011 (Vienna): Max
July 2011 (Vienna): Luis-Alberto
July 2011 (Salzburg): Alex Bernstein
July 2011 (Amsterdam): Chris
July 2011 (Amsterdam): Rugiero
July 2011 (Paris): Chris
December 2011 (Brazil): Rachel
June 2012 (Tokyo): Mari
June 2012 (Bangkok): Cory
June 2012 (Manila): Dave
December 2013 (Sydney): Sam

Interests

Being active. I work out six days a week, play volleyball a couple nights a week, and run. I am developing into a distance runner. I love to travel (once a month) and school has kept me pretty interested. I am not a history buff but would like to change that. I also enjoy a good day shopping, eating well, and meeting new people and having conversation.

• culture
• oktoberfest
• dining
• running
• working out
• boating
• shopping
• traveling
• survival
• fishing
• surfing
• volleyball
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Rom Com's :-)

Music: Anything, I danced for fifteen years so I have an appreciation for just about anything... including country

Books: Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twlight. Your typical pop culture books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

3 weeks in Juneau AK, alone. survival of the fittest. no food except three miles downtown, had to run the three miles to eat. Got to meet a ton of new people and even got invited to a wedding my first weekend in town. It made me realize that I can do things on my own. I met a new person every day. I got shown around and even scored a 7 hour boat tour to Tracy Arm, a 1 hr float plane tour of the ice fields, a whale watching tour, a fishing expedition and climbed some mountains. wonderful.
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Teach, Learn, Share

People who have done things and been to places I have never been. Those get added to my bucket list.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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