CURRENT MISSION

To be kind.

ABOUT ME

I like to travel, read books, go hiking/camping, and play football(soccer). Experience over things.. Quality over quantity, etc. I have been traveling pretty consistently since 2011. I hope to keep going for the indefinite future. I'm a vegetarian (usually).

PHILOSOPHY

"Be kind whenever possible, its always possible."

"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends; Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts"

"Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness"

"The problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt"

"And you are here for some twirls around the sun, then you'll join the dead for untold eons after. So why not have a friendly look around now, while you have the opportunity?"

"you have exactly one life to do everything you've ever wanted. Act accordingly."

Interests

Soccer, Language, Cycling, Geocaching, Maps, Credit cards, Fraud, Geography, Music, Prolonged eye contact, hiking, Airplane calisthenics, Meditation, awkwardness, Libraries, Competitive speed walking

Music, Movies, and Books

Desert Solitaire, Walden, A new earth, Vagabonding, Everything that remains, Mans search for meaning, Consider the lobster, Siddhartha, Fools progress, Slaughterhouse five, A heart breaking work of staggering genius, Dharma Bums, Motherless Brooklyn -- anything by Pico Iyer or Sam Harris.

Into the wild, Shawshank redemption, Good fellas, Royal Tenenbaums, Fight Club, Cool runnings, Modest mouse, Phosphorescent, The National, Bon Iver, The Flaming lips, Boyz 2 Men, KEXP Seattle.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went paragliding in the Himalayas

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, stories, a smile, a hug

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Czech Republic, Poland, United States, Viet Nam