CURRENT MISSION

Live a more surreal life

ABOUT ME

I grew up in sunny South Florida in a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale. I went on to study Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida and North Carolina State in Raleigh. I recently moved from Southfields, NY to Basel, Switzerland. In my spare time I go hiking, play guitar, read, and go to musical events.I'm pretty laid back and easy to get along with.

PHILOSOPHY

Try not to let dogma get in the way of experience.
One can only get as much as one gives.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new to the couchsurfing experience, but it seems like an intriguing way to meet other people.

Interests

I have a broad spectrum of interests ranging from cosmology to obscure folk music to Dostoevsky.

• music
• folk music
• guitar
• hiking
• engineering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm interested in different forms of rock, folk, pop, and electronic music. Some examples include John Fahey, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Yo La Tengo, Aphex Twin, Autechre, U2, Radiohead, Tool, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Brian Eno, Can, The Cure, Do Make Say Think, Les Rallizes Denudes, Boris, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sigur Ros, Sparklehorse, Sonic Youth, M83, Wilco, Zakir Hussain

Movies - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Harold and Maude, Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Peeping Tom, My Night at Maud's, Decalogue, Blow Up, Taste of Cherry, Amelie, Bridge on the River Kwai, Mulholland Drive

Books - Beyond Good and Evil, Brothers Karamazov, Catcher in the Rye, Count of Monte Cristo, Elegant Universe, Fathers & Sons, Faust, Franny and Zooey, Portable Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, The Essential Gandhi, The Possessed, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Tibetan Book of the Living and Dead, Walden, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was able to make it back to my car after hiking a half mile in total darkness.

Completing the 26 mile Great Range Traverse in the Adirondack Mountains in one day.

Reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach beginner guitar. I'm an experienced hiker and there are many nice places to hike around where I live.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Switzerland, United States