CURRENT MISSION

trying to balance today with tomorrow

ABOUT ME

biking, boarding, bearding, building, and beering.

thrift store aficionado.

PHILOSOPHY

"In the few years since I’ve started to travel this world I’d found myself changing. The cramped cynical world view of the man who had only seen life through the narrow prism of the restaurant kitchen had altered.

I’d been so many places, I’d met so many people from wildly divergent backgrounds countries and cultures. Everywhere I’d been I’d been as in Beirut, treated so well; I’d been the recipient of so many random acts of kindness from strangers. And I’d begun to think that no matter where I went and who I sat down with, that food and a few drinks seemed always to bring people together. That this planet was filled with basically good and decent people doing the best they could if frequently under difficult circumstances. That the human animal was perhaps a better and nicer species than I’d once thought. I’d begun to believe that the dinner table was the great leveler, where people from opposite sides of the world could always sit down and talk and eat and drink and if not solve all the worlds problems, at least find for a time common ground.

Now I’m not so sure. Maybe the world’s not like that at all. Maybe in the real world, the one without cameras and happy food and travel shows, everybody, the good and the bad together are all crushed under the same terrible wheel. I hope--I really hope--that I’m wrong about that.”
-Anthony Bourdain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

primarily hosting, sometimes surfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

never met a cser i didn't like

Interests

living the chemE dream, the good sun, reading outloud, swedish fish, selvage, writing, bad movies, good art

• animals
• dogs
• fish
• arts
• writing
• dining
• cooking
• drinking
• thrifting
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• fishing
• surfing
• mathematics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

music: hip-hop, drum and bass, dubstep, radiohead

radio: loveline archives

movies: waiting, gattaca, die fetten jahre sind vorbei, punch drunk love

books: herbert, lovecraft, murakami, pynchon, hst, engels, geankoplis's 'transport processes and separation process principles'

also anything by errol morris.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

a sun dog on the empty prairie.

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: records, cooking, science & maths
learn: whatever you're passionate about
share: dinner for anyone who hosts me.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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