CURRENT MISSION

study geography, play music, have adventures

ABOUT ME

I'm a carbon-based bipedal life form, usually covered in bike grease. I just moved back to Oakland, CA after over a year abroad living in Taiwan and China, then traveling through Europe. I like to go to restaurants and bars! Go to concerts, hang out in the park, go on awesome bike rides and hikes. I love camping and the outdoors. I am also an intern with the National Park Service. I work in the Presidio Park in San Francisco. It is a beautiful piece of nature inside SF city limits.
Cheers and Safe Travels!!!
Brendan
冷博登

PHILOSOPHY

"Theres no point driving your self mad trying to stop your self from going mad. You might as well just go mad and save your sanity for later."
-Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-Douglas Adams

"...I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop."
-Jack Kerouac

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, Surfing, Traveling...

visited 16 states (7.11%)Create your own visited map of The World or website vertaling duits?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The last greatest CS experience I had was in Moscow in June 2012. I arrived to my New Zealander host's flat, and 20 minutes later another CSer from Belgium arrived. Ends up the NZ host was way too busy to with work, so he was gracious enough to just hand his apartment keys over to me and this Belgium traveler and the two of us just had a blast all over Moscow for 3 days. We were sorry that we could not hang out with the New Zealander, but that is the amazing thing about CS, the trust and camaraderie in letting complete strangers stay at your house. I LOVE IT FOREVER!!!

Interests

bike polo, bike racing, playing/writing music, playing/watching soccer, dancing, chineseing, geography, ecology.

• writing
• concerts
• dancing
• running
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• soccer
• bike polo
• ecology
• geography
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Hitch-Hickers Guide To The Galaxy, Night Watch, HP (the bad-ass) Wizard People: Dear Reader, How Soccer Explains The World, On The Road, Dharma Bums, One-Hundred Years of Solitude.

Arcade Fire, Matt and Kim, TV On The Radio, Azure Ray, Windmill, The Business, Port O'Brien, The Ian Fays. Portugal The Man, Ratatat

West Ham United (back in the top flight!)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Biked from Taipei to Yilan through the mountains on HWY 9, and then back to Taipei along the ocean on HWY 2. It was Great!!!

Biked From Kending to Taipei.

Played Bagpipes with Dropkick Murphys and Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies.

Ridin the Trans-Siberian Railroad

Biked over the Italian Apls to Germany.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach any array of musical instruments. I could also teach you how to make a balloon doggy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Taiwan, United States

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