CURRENT MISSION

To get to the bottom of this thing...you know...life

ABOUT ME

I am nesting in Pittsburgh with a fixer upper house, new bride, old dog, old cat and relatively new job. I am generally very enthusiastic and very skeptical and I don't like to write about myself...but i love to talk about myself.

PHILOSOPHY

People tend to try too hard and end up phony or not try at all and end up boring. Try to just enjoy yourself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not very much lately. I have become pretty discriminating and withdrawn after getting a thousand requests from people I am not really connecting with. Ive been on the site long enough to whine about good old days, but really i just want to hang out with people on my page and not just people on their magical one time road trip.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started with Couchsurfing in 2005 and have surfed in Puerto Rico, Iceland, France, Sweden, Japan, Belgium, the UK, Montreal, Toronto, Germany. I lived in a hostel in Nashville, Tennessee for 8 months. I surfed before there was a couchsurfing in California and New York and ended up living in both places. So it's been a good experience so far.

Interests

Bocce. Old home reconstruction. Electricity. Social Anthropology. History. Movies(Pauline Kael not rotten tomatoes)

• cats
• dogs
• beer
• movies
• anthropology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

The Geminis - Bob Dylan, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, John Fogherty, Ray Davies, Walt Whitman, Ginsberg, Ian Svenonius, Prince, Andre 3k.

David Foster Wallace. Preston Sturges. Manet. Bill Murray. Cabbages and Kings. John Lennon. Little Richard telling people to "shut up". Hard Times. Charles Dickens. Islands. The Clash Sandanista. Destroyer. Battles. Billy Wilder. The Driver with Bruce Dern. Enrst Lubisch. HL Menken. Being afraid of Lars Von Trier. Andrew Bird. Danger Mouse's Rome album.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Tokyo is amazing, Snuck around the abbey at Mont St. Michelle which was amazing, Belgian beer is amazing, Iceland hotsprings...amazing, and I carried an injured person off of a mountain...well there were a bunch of us and it wasn't amazing, it actually sucked. She had these bratty kids eating chips and I was so hungry and cold. So no mountainclimbing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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