I'm a long time traveler currently living in Ithaca, New York with my partner while I further my studies in herbal and botanical medicine with a community-oriented focus. Its nice to settle down for a bit and stop moving--proof that I'm getting older and growing up, I guess.

I try really hard to be a good person, to take responsibility for my actions and act accordingly. I make my best effort to look out for the needs, wants, wishes and desires of the people around me. I stick up for myself and my needs.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to open my home to fellow travelers, ramblers and nomads at no cost.

I also want to find rad folks to host me while I am rambling around.

Travel shouldn't be a rich man's game.

Interests

My number one interest is ecology, specifically I am a botanist and I invest a lot of myself into my study of and love for plants. I'm also very invested in sustainable living.

Its really hard for me to be inside most of the time.

I'm a practiced dumpster diver.

I'm a life-long punk rock anarchist. I enjoy punk music and punk culture is my tribe. I also enjoy critical social theory and putting these kinds of critiques into practice in my real life.

• horses
• culture
• dining
• yoga
• traveling
• homebrewing
• dumpster diving
• investing
• music
• punk music
• cycling
• fishing
• hunting
• scuba diving
• ecology
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

There really isn't a genre of music that I don't like at least a little bit of, the exception being hippie jam bands, which I strongly dislike. Lately I've been really into old country music, but I also like metal, crust, practically every genre of punk, bluegrass, the list goes on. My all time favorite bands are Black Sabbath and Mischief Brew.

I play the musical saw.

My favorite movies and TV are the X-Files, Twin Peaks, Star Trek (yes, all of them), Fried Green Tomatoes, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. I love everything Tom Waits has ever touched . . . movies and music.

Currently I'm reading "Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England" by Tom Wessels and the "Doris" anthology by Cindy Crabb and "Women Who Run with the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I'm a big fan of Kurt Vonegut and Derrick Jensen. My favorite books are my floras to whatever bioregion I happen to be in at the time. Currently that would be Gleason and Cronquist's "Manual of Vascular Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada" and Wiegand and Eames' "Flora of the Cayuga Lake Basin"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've ridden a few freight trains and broken a few horses, both amazing tasks. I've lived and breathed and payed attention and loved. Also amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: plant identification, botany, foraging and wildcrafting plants for food and medicine, herbal skills, skinning and tanning hides, wild fermentation ( I.e. Lactofermentation, pickling, sour kraut, Kim chi, kefir, yogurt, kombucha etc.), sewing by hand, saw playing, fiddle basics, skipping/dumpster diving, horsemanship, basic bike mechanics, how to change your oil, homebrewing

Learn: foraging and wildcrafting local plants, falcon husbandry/falconeering, basic mechanics (i.e. Car repair), shelter building, firemaking, blacksmithing/forging, fishing and hunting, knot tying, yoga, german

Learn/teach/anok/peace

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, housing, herbal advice, skills and products. My ear, my experiences.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States