CURRENT MISSION

run free and full without let or hindrance

ABOUT ME

I'm into hearing people talk about their thoughts; we all have a lot to share. I've been coaxed to a few interesting places in this crazy world, and my eyes never stop surprising me.

PHILOSOPHY

think of your life as a great storybook and put whatever creatures you want in it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I actually haven't hosted yet and am excited to pay back into the community! If anyone is interested in visiting Chicago after this summer, send me a message!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CS has brought wonderful folks into my life, and help direct a handful of my travel days in unexpected ways.

Interests

people, language, twilight and dawn; all the mundane details; laughing; cycling; changing; looking back; trying to understand; making plans and finding things out

• running
• traveling
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Quiet American, Sometimes a Great Notion, A Bend in the River, All The Pretty Horses, most of Cormac McCarthy's writing, all John Updike, All of Us, Where I'm Calling From, 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, L'Etranger, The Sailer Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It, most Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky- especially White Nights, Brothers Karamazov, Crime & Punishment, Leaves of Grass, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

went to the shanghai expo 2010!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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