CURRENT MISSION

Implementing strategies to live in communities that enhance friendship, growing, living, cooling, exploring, digging, harnessing, energizing, collaborating and breathing.

ABOUT ME

I live in an eclectic building in downtown San Diego, comprised of artist, architects, builders, students, and teachers. The building, in one form a maze, comprised of interconnected doorways, passages, shared kitchens, decks, roofs and look-out towers. I am inspired by the designer of my habitat. A house made up of individual strangers with unique entrances and exits combined to make a home. We welcome one and all - knock on the green door, the black , the yellow or the white - someone might answer.

PHILOSOPHY

Now. Or never. - Thoreau

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Continuum

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am new to the community and look forward to surfing and providing the surf.

Interests

Landscape+architecture, the reality of inhabiting an environment. food production then consumption, urban adventeur, exploration with a pack, a pad and a saunter into the unknown, waterfalls, futbol (playing), planting, digging, eco-logics, community-enhancement, aimless strolls, climbing, sun, ocean kayaking, djembe, street dancing, riding the train. the desert, broad expanses, narrowing visions. water+color, radio broadcasting, bicycling, unfiltered beverages and more!

• architecture
• design
• coloring
• dancing
• environment
• dining
• survival
• music
• piano
• kayaking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• ecology

Music, Movies, and Books

currently reading: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Now reading: The Timeless Way of Building

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

first thing to mind - diving with Whale Sharks off the coast of Mozambique - hmmm. then the 4 am pickup later that week by the (at capacity) local van driving 8 hrs. through the post land-mined roads, goats strapped to the roof, with a jar of peanut butter and a couple bananas to hold me over until we reach Maputo, the city. Banana smothered in peanut-butter is delicious. Ask me about driving through Maputo in another van with no windshield trying to find my hotel.

Teach, Learn, Share

Ecology, Landscape+Architecture, Planting+growing. Eager to learn about food, wilderness, building, survival, energy, music-piano, river kayaking, vertical climbing, unitary urbanism

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Mozambique, South Africa, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, United States

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