CURRENT MISSION

To see all parts of the world and meet all kinds of its people

ABOUT ME

I have been traveling since I was a baby. Wanderlust has never left me. I teach 11-15 year-olds in Chicago, as well as teaching adult immigrants English and computer classes, and I coach a boys baseball team at school. I love languages and their peoples, and learn what I can whenever I am traveling.

PHILOSOPHY

Think, love and live.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

This is a great site to meet people from different places.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been couch surfing since before I knew there was a word for it. I'm late to this web site!

Interests

Music, writing, running, playing tennis, Football Club Barcelona, cooking, issues related to the poor, public housing and urban communities, religion and spirituality, traveling (obviously), the death experience (I have an aging father, and I volunteer with the dying at a hospice), the search for a unified theory of sorts regarding mind-and-matter...

• writing
• cooking
• running
• coach
• clubbing
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• surfing
• baseball
• soccer
• tennis
• languages
• religion
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

The Big Lebowski, Double Life of Veronique, Dead Man, Life Is Beautiful, Naked, Other Worlds (documentary), Map of the Human Heart, Citizen Kane, Fight Club, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Il Postino, Life of Brian, Team America, Touching the Void...

Fela Kuti, Bela Fleck, Tinariwen (Taureg nomad desert rock), Leonard Cohen, electronica, South African choral, Tuva throat-singers and minimalists of all stripes, anything Congolese, The Beatles...

Poetry of Rumi, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Blake, Walt Whitman... Antipodes of the Mind (ayahuasca studies), Slowness (Milan Kundera), The Little Prince, Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon), any of The Xenophobe's Guide series...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Staying in the Peruvian Amazon jungle for six weeks for medicines...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Germany, United States