CURRENT MISSION

travel and learn from people

ABOUT ME

I’m a very outgoing, sometimes, too outgoing person. I love all kinds of fun whether I be site seeing the famous sites or finding that greasy spoon restaurant in the back alley that actually happens to have better food than the luxury steakhouse on the 53rd floor of a skyscraper. Currently I’m going through a sort of spiritual breakthrough. I’d felt for a long time that organized religion was nothing to great but after reading Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth I realized where the issues were with them as they stand now and what needs to be changed in order to make Christianity make sense once again. I’m not longer Agnostic I think. I guess you could call me a Campbellian??

PHILOSOPHY

Find your bliss

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven’t yet but I plan very shortly to travel via couch surfing across Western Europe for a week.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed a couch in Bremen and I can't wait til my couchsurfing/bike trip south through germany into switzerland and if I'm lucky making it all the way down to Italy.

Interests

Playing French horn. Biking, wwoofing, reading fiction and nonfiction alike, theatre, ultimate Frisbee, slow food, alternative energy, physics, travel adventures of all kinds and finding ways to simply enjoy life no matter what the scenario.

• dining
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• languages
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Angels in America, Blood Diamond, Life is a House, V for Vendetta, The Matrix, Memento, Juno, The Lives of Others, Crash, Inside Man, Mums the Word, The Dying Gaul, Hotel Rwanda, Rent, Sweeney Todd, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Love Actually, The Interpreter, Waking Life, What the Bleep?, Thank you for smoking. Interstellar, Parasite.
TV: Slings and Arrows, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, University of Michigan Football.
Music: Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Charlie Daniels Band, James Taylor, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rufus Wainwright, Van Morrison, Mozart, Bach, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Dvorak etc. etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Biked from Barcelona, Spain to Erfurt, Germany in 18 days.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help people with their English, how to throw a Frisbee, cooking to a degree, , card tricks, card games and a joke or to.
I’d love to learn German, Spanish and many other languages, other styles of cooking and the meaning of life (but not the universe and everything).

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Canada, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States