CURRENT MISSION

Seize opportunities, Connect with others, Share experiences, Live with passion

ABOUT ME

I'll try anything once.....usually twice. Life's too short for inhibitions.

PHILOSOPHY

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All of my couchsurfing experiences have been fantastic. Everyone I meet is so kind and interesting. I love sharing stories and ideas and cultural differences as I travel. This website is incredible because of the incredible people that populate it.

Interests

My interests include leading adventures, directing happiness, achieving awesome, giving girls butterflies, being the champion of the people, and most importantly, living life with passion.

• traveling
• cars

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Usual Suspects, Bad Boys II, Donnie Darko, Black Hawk Down, The Rock, Boondock Saints, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Old School, Office Space, American Beauty, Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Army of Darkness, Brain Candy, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Princess Bride, Coming to America, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Jaws, The 5th Element, Saving Private Ryan, Fletch, Fletch Lives, Wayne's World, Jerry MacGuire, Dumb and Dumber, The Girl Next Door, Fight Club, Back to the Future I and II, The Butterfly Effect, Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2, Ghostbusters, Six Degrees of Separation, Gladiator, Moulin Rouge, Pi, Primer, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Groundhog Day, Napolean Dynamite, Mean Girls, Anchorman, When Harry Met Sally, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Wedding Crashers, Van Wilder, 40 Year Old Virgin, Waiting, Crash, Batman Begins, The Aristocrats, Snakes on a Plane, Dazed and Confused, Iron Man

Music: I like punk, pop, classic rock, hip/hop, rap, alt rock, jazz, acoustic, emo, techno, trance, indie. I can find something I like in pretty much anything, depending on my mood.

Books: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Silmarillion, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Engines of Creation, Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation, Ender's Game, Flowers for Algernon, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1984, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, The Hagakure, The Art of War, The Prince, Various tomes by Neil Gaiman, Various works by Nietzsche, Dr. Seuss classics, The Wealth of Nations, Mother Night, The Selfish Gene, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, The Game, Think and Grow Rich, Where the Wild Things Are

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've slept under the Eiffel Tower, hung from Redwood Trees, surfed the Big Island, snuck into Superbowls, climbed glaciers in Alaska, hitchhiked to Paris, white water rafted in Switzerland, raved in a peanut factory in London, raced F1 cars in Monaco, lost $60,000 of someone else's money in Vegas (they didn't mind, they could afford it), rode a segway through the Louvre, wakeboarded the Gulf of Mexico, wrestled a gator in The Swamp, breakdanced on the Reichstag, davened at the Western Wall, climbed 2,000 year old stone cities in Petra, floated in the Dead Sea, driven through an active war zone, broke into a church to see Da Vinci's Last Supper, rode camels through the Negev, danced atop a giant rubber ducky in the desert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsi8iMPHI5Y), and drove my pimped out school bus across America and back just to watch a Man Burn, to name just a few...

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