CURRENT MISSION

Graduate School in Boston - getting a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

ABOUT ME

I graduated from college, went to South America, bought a motorcycle in Bolivia, and hit the road to explore and learn. I'm still in the process of learning Spanish. Now I'm back in the US, five years into grad school and traveling whenever I get the chance. My degree was in aerospace engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. Now I live in Boston. I love talking about flying, space, history, politics, business, music, or anything that's mutually interesting. I'm an easy-going guy, clean, and respectful. I look forward to meeting you!

PHILOSOPHY

Goodbye Blue Monday!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

What better way to experience a new environment? Local advice, interesting conversation, and instant perspective... I be surfed my way through South America and Southeast Asia from July 2011 through the fall of 2012, traveling mostly by motorcycle. I haven't hosted yet, but look forward to doing so when I get a place of my own.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed in Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Malaysia, and Singapore. It's been a diverse and interesting experience!

Interests

Aviation, Motorcycling, Hanging Out, Coffee, Engineering, Reading, Finance, Hitting the town

• environment
• coffee
• flying
• aviation
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• business
• engineering
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Most of Kurt Vonnegut's work
East of Eden, Steinbeck
Flight of Passage, Buck
Bridge of San Luis Rey, Wilder
Federal Aviation Regulations...

Movies:
O Brother Where Art Thou?, Star Wars, Motorcycle Diaries, Amalie, It's A Wonderful Life

Music: Lots of types, changing all the time.
Pearl Jam, The Naked and the Famous, The Mountain Goats, Instrumental and classical, The Hype Machine (www.hypem.com). Ai Se Eu Te Pego (just kidding)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Flown in a single-engine airplane around the Carribbean
-Floated in zero-gravity on NASA's "Vomit Comet" airplane
-Flown loops in a 1928 Biplane
-Climbed a 20,000 ft mountain, Huayna Potosi, in Bolivia (with an unruly stomach to boot)
-Swam with giant sea turtles at the Galapagos Islands
-Ate lunch with Meryl Streep and her daughter

Teach, Learn, Share

To share: Ground school knowledge for student pilots

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Laos, Malaysia, Netherlands Antilles, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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