CURRENT MISSION

To live until I stop living.

ABOUT ME

To be as brief as possible - I'm a nice guy who tries to make a positive impact on the world around me.

PHILOSOPHY

"The meaning of life is to give life meaning"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New to this... looking forward to meeting people while traveling for 3 months this summer and then repaying the favor when I get a new apartment in NYC towards the end of the 2013.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet. I've hitch-hiked a lot and randomly met people who have let me crash at their place.

Interests

Cooking, reading, writing, art, camping, hiking, gardening, the list goes on but those are the big ones.

• arts
• writing
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• camping
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Anything by Dostoevsky, Murakami, David Mitchell, Ishiguro, Rushdie, Joyce
Movies: There Will Be Blood, Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, Glory, The Fisher King, Eternal Sunshine... anything by Miyazaki.
Music: Radiohead, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel, Coldplay, Vampire Weekend, Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Strokes, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Nick Drake

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked to the top of Mount Fuji during a typhoon.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a hell of a lot about food. Also I know about NYC and its history.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Netherlands, Palestine, Russian Federation, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Italy, Japan, United States