CURRENT MISSION

To travel slowly, and look around.

ABOUT ME

I really like being an economics major, and I spend a lot of time outside. That's the two sentence summary, anyway. It's hard to talk a lot about yourself, so I'll refer to a nice quote:

"Dollar meals if I can find them; five dollar hotels, if they still exist. No guided tours, no visits to historical monuments, or old churches. No taxis, no mixed drinks in fancy bars. No hanging around places where English might be spoken." Moritz Thomsen

Rather than the tourist spots, the tokens of local pride, the comfortable and clean hotels, I'll take life as it really is. Who goes to work? Who's having a regular day? Tell me something that isn't interesting. A problem with generalization in tourism is that it pretends the only interesting thing about a city is how strange the foreign cuisine is, or how odd their clothes are. Hype is bad for movies and cities. The natural effect is that you are let down, you rest, and then you feel like life is still with you, like you could not leave it at home as you planned. In fact, you realize you feel pretty much the same. So, I look for normal things wherever I go, and I take my own world with me.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

All travelers are welcome to stay here when I'm home! I hope you can offer me a good floor and let me make you a nice meal.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In Toronto I stayed with 2 hosts, and met some really great people along the way.

兴趣

Music, traveling, people, books, language learning, journalism, longboarding, urban exploring, good food, making food too.

• books
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• camping
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

Wilco is an all time great band for me; also Shakey Graves and Dr. Dog. My favorite movie is Joe Vs. the Volcano. I really liked the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I took a road trip from Pa to New Orleans and back with my friend, and the trip blew me away. We didn't plan very much, took it a day at a time - I think the trip was better because of it.

教，学，和分享

I can teach you to navigate without a compass if you want, and I would love to learn how to fish!

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I'm an authentic, suburban Pennsylvanian. I can cook and clean, talk about the economy, play music with you, and offer my favorite books and movies.

我游览过的国家

Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

United States