CURRENT MISSION

Trying to balance all the great loves in my life; music, running, traveling, backpacking and hanging out with friends.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in a surban town about 45 minutes outside of San Francisco before moving to Oregon for college. Shortly after school I moved out to the Boston area for an internship with foreign policy think tank in 2005. I ended up staying in the area for a while after my internship ended and working as an assistant manager at one of the bigger book stores in the area. I landed a year long AmeriCorps position in southeast Arizona in 2006. I worked as a park ranger dealing with projects concerning the environmental effects of illegal immigration in the area and ended up extending my position for another year. Last summer I moved back in with my parents and went back to school in August to get a certificate in this mapping software called GIS that I had started to teach myself in Arizona. After finished the certificate I took a little over three months to travel through Mexico and Central America. I recently returned to California and am starting to look for work again but hope to mix things up with a little traveling every now and then as well.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a rookie, but I'm very interested in exploring CouchSurfing community.

Interests

• books
• running
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Underworld, Explosions in the Sky, Portishead, Arcade Fire, James Holden, New Order, Caribou (Manitoba), Chemical Brothers, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles

Books (Authors) - Jon Krakauer, Herman Hesse, Par Lagerkvist, JRR Tolkien, John Steinbeck, Dave Eggers, JK Rowling, Arthur C. Clarke

TV - The Simpsons, The X-Files, Dr. Who, Rome, Six Feet Under, Firefly

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have climbed to the top of the tallest known pre-Columbian structure in the Western World (La Danta in northern Guatemala is about 80 meters tall, the equivalent of a 20 story building).

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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