CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life and find happiness and contenment

ABOUT ME

Currently bouncing around the world and seeing what life has to offer.

I grew up in Houston, TX, USA and moved to Minneapolis, MN, USA when I was 21. I spent 8 years in Minneapolis and now I am traveling here and there around the world. I was in Peru and Bolivia for a bit in 2011, and in Southeast Asia for 2012.

According to the tips section I should mention any weird dietary restrictions I have, so here it is, I am a vegetarian. Reason being a combination of health reason(I pay much closer attention to what I eat since I became a vegetarian) and I feel like it is a more sustainable eating habit for the world to eat less meat. That said, it is my personal choice and not one that other people need to make.

PHILOSOPHY

The world is simultaneously big and small. Big in the sense there are so many amazing things out there to see and experience, small in that in the end we are all way more similar than anyone ever realizes. I tried to be laid back and let things go with the flow. I tend to under plan things and "wing" it more often than not in life. Don't get me wrong, certain things need to be planned out and thought through, but it is best to use those plans as a guide and adjust as life happens.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met several travelers who use couch surfing and ranted and raved about how amazing the experience was. So now I am trying it out myself.

Interests

Scuba Diving, Photography, Travel, Philosophy, Computers, Databases, cheesy TV, science, etc.....

• photography
• vegetarian
• technology
• tv
• traveling
• surfing
• scuba diving
• science
• statistics
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favorite books include
* Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
* Books by Mario Vargas - I have only read a few of his books, but I loved the ones I did read
* Game of Thrones and the subsequent books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I consider traveling around the world for the past year or so pretty amazing. I've met more people than I can remember, been on crazy bus rides, and witnessed things I had never previously dreamed could be possible

Teach, Learn, Share

I majored in Statistics in college, spent several years working in the information technology field and data analytics field...I'll be happy to share my knowledge of any of those subjects. I also pursue photography as a hobby, but I consider myself a beginner armature.