EDIT:
I just had a baby, so I won’t be hosting for a few months! <3

PHILOSOPHY

We are here on this Earth to fart around. Anyone who tells you any different is full of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm hosting! I'm surfing! As an added bonus, I am a magnificent bikerider, beerquaffer, hiker, and backpacker, should you need any company or a makeshift tourguide.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This ain't my first rodeo.

Interests

I am really into the following things: reading, writing, backpacking and barefoot hiking, gardening, learning, art, graffiti, the starry heavens, caves, chrono-synclastic infundibula, adrenaline, primitive survival, slapping herbs, tweezing, 14th-century star maps, Hubble, card houses, sushi, snakes, sleeping, momeraths, secret recipes, dreaming, bear hugs, sidewalk chalk, dogs, burly beards, old photographs, exploring, the English language and grammar, bone processing, nebulae, moths, unworn converse, tarot, breakfast, the moon, theorizing, gin, coffee, flying off the handle, letting cats out of bags, coming full circle, eating the whole apple, smelling old book spines, stopping traffic, losing scarves, sending/receiving snail mail, getting lost, love potions, secret passwords, larimar, Nalgene, expensive headphones, smart lighting, inheritance, omens and portents, swimming, cheese, puns, meditation, medication, playing my cello, Gringolet, my adorable family, goats, sleeping in piles/making a nest, going fast on motorcycles, good advice, sunshine, moonshine, phi, fractals, beer, coral, and organization.

• cats
• dogs
• arts
• writing
• books
• recipes
• breakfast
• cheese
• beer
• cocktails
• coffee
• meditation
• drinking
• flying
• motorcycles
• gardening
• reading
• survival
• hiking
• backpacking
• hunting
• surfing
• swimming
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

Right now, I'm really into reading everything these humans have written: Salman Rushdie, Elena Ferrante, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., David Foster Wallace, Orwell's nonfiction. And autobiographies of the long-dead. And short stories by Russians. Also poetry: Wallace Stevens, Stanley Kunitz, RM Rilke, Theodore Roethke, WB Yeats, Philip Larkin. And I love recommendations-- they're indispensable in finding new authors to love.

I like music, too-- right now crazy for The Mountain Goats, Tocotronic, Boards of Canada, My Morning Jacket, Hayden, and Mr. Bungle.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in the cloud forests of Maquipucuna, Ecuador and later, the flooded headwaters of the Amazon for six weeks completely nude and barefoot with only a machete, a mosquito net, a fire starter, a cast net, and a few fish hooks. . I built my own shelter and water filter, and lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. That was pretty cool.

Also, having lived in Coastal Georgia, I have seen a good deal of the ocean and the small tributaries that flow into the marsh, which are populated by dolphins and manatees. Once, I saw manatees mating. Yes, that is correct: I saw manatees in a love embrace. And it was... AWESOME.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn how to mix some delicious, mean, exotic cocktails that I can whip up at home or work whenever someone I'm serving looks indecisive. If you or your country has a specialty drink (and I know that you do/it does), I want to learn how to make it in the most authentic way possible. And then I want to share it with people!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Mead, duh.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Germany, Ireland, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, United States

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