CURRENT MISSION

Get back involved with CS following a hiatus.

ABOUT ME

Living in New York, looking forward to figuring out my next trip.

PHILOSOPHY

See as much as you can. Learn as much as you can.

Or a favorite cycling quote: "When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man ... Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've only surfed once (a great experience in Scotland), but looking to get more involved.

Interests

I'm a fan of anything outdoors, especially running & cycling. Also enjoy are hiking and sailing, but I don't get to do either as much as I'd like.

As for indoor activities, I'm interested in politics, history, and literature. I think reading history & literature of an area is a great glimpse of the culture and allows a little more understanding.

• culture
• literature
• running
• politics
• reading
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Quiet American, Animal Farm, Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Brideshead Revisited, Cloud Atlas, anything by Ryszard Kapuscinski. One of these trips I'll finally finish Don Quixote.

Movies: Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine, Goodbye Lenin, Grizzly Man, Dr Strangelove, Royal Tenenbaums, Apocalypse Now, many, many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The view from the top of Kaieteur Falls, Guyana; running/sliding/falling down the side of a volcano in Nicaragua; hiking the Highlands of Scotland; rafting the Grand Canyon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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