Hello!
I am American, born in Virginia, raised outside of Chicago, and I went to University in New York for the last four years. This past spring I graduated, got my CELTA, made some tentative plans to become an english teacher somewhere abroad, and booked a one-way flight to Japan. This was around mid-July, and I've been traveling around Asia ever since.

How to describe myself...
I'm a curious guy, always looking for new perspectives and fresh ideas to ponder. I read voraciously (right now I've been on a kick through the post-modernists). I love to meet other travelers and chat about ideas and things, I find people always surprise me with the depth of their passions and their various eccentricities.

I'm also a really laidback guy. Easy to get along with, and happy to do whatever. One of my favorite things about traveling is having the opportunity to try things I would never get the chance to do back at home. And I'll try pretty much anything once.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people, to share stories, to do exciting stuff with awesome people, to have new experiences, to live and to learn, and mostly, to have a hell of time doing it.

Interests

Sports like tennis and soccer I love to play, but I also dig watching football
Books like Pynchon's
All sorts of music, but lately lots of Dylan
I like to play chess sometimes

• books
• chess
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• sports
• soccer
• tennis
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

2001: A Space Odyssey// Nic Cage generally// Eyes Wide Shut// Boyhood// Kicking and Screaming// Slacker// Moonrise Kingdom// Puddytang //

Moby Dick// Gravity's Rainbow// The Master and Margarita// Middlemarch// The Alchemist// V. // The Brother's Karamazov// Labyrinths// One Hundred Years of Solitude//

Wu-Tang// etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States