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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • English Teacher
  • B.A. Political Science, Baylor University
  • From St. Louis, MO, USA
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel, and I have done a lot of solo traveling. When I travel alone, one thing that I love to do is meet people from all over the world, especially people from the cities that I am staying in so that I can see what staying there is really like!

Interests

Movies, hip-hop, food, books, learning from others, campfires.

  • books
  • dining
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • solo travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: My favorite artists are The Roots, Kanye West, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Fleet Foxes, The Tallest Man on Earth, Needtobreathe, and Stromae among others.

Movies: My ten favorite films are 12 Angry Men, Des Hommes et des Dieux, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Requiem for a Dream, Tree of Life, Pulp Fiction, Moonrise Kingdom, Back to the Future, It's a Wonderful Life, and 12 Years a Slave.

Books: Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I took the Transsiberian Railroad from Moscow to Beijing. Six days on a train!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Netherlands, United States

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