2019: Began work as an IPSA trained Surrogate Partner. Not the baby making kind. The kind that only works in conjunction with a licensed therapist. So, imagine couples therapy but for people who do not have a partner to work through intimate issues with. My role as a surrogate partner is to provide the hands-on aspect where talk therapy with a therapist falls short. I focus on women's issues including but not limited to sexual anxieties, lack of experience, fear of intimacy, sexual dysfunction, trauma, and previous problematic relationships. Why have you never heard of this? Well, it is not marketed. The only way to get legitimate Surrogate Partner Therapy is through a licensed therapist or social worker who is able to provide it (like a sex therapist associated with the International Professional Surrogates Association.)

2018: Working, learning, studying, and training like a fiend.

2017: Green Riders - Good Deeds on Bikes. Bicycled from New York to Seattle while leaving the path we took better than we found it.

2016: OTR trucking and trekked from Mexico to Canada on foot via the Pacific Crest Trail

2015: Long haul trucking living/working over the road.

2014: Resigned from San Diego Sheriff's Search and Rescue and quit my full time job as a fire/medical/emergency 911 operator to hike the entire Appalachian Trail (Georgia to Maine)

2013 and earlier: Dude, I don't know. I've done a lot of shit. If I wanted to tell my life story I'd write a book. I don't want to write a book here.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I actually never used Couchsurfing. On my travels I enjoyed sleeping under the stars. Figured I just needed a profile? I don't know. I'm also an introvert. If you need to see a review, check out my warmshowers profile which I used on a cross country tour.

www.warmshowers.org/user/150013

www.airbnb.com/users/reviews/63636805

Interests

I'm very busy in always trying to grow into a better person and learn more. Sometimes I need help in pushing myself to be more social since I'm such an introvert (a very outgoing one who can get mistaken as an extrovert.) I dabble in rock climbing but right now I'm very focused on obtaining short term goals. If my life was perfect I'd be training jiu jitsu, running up mountains, and rock climbing everyday while spending a lot of quality time with friends making/sharing food. + big dogs

When it comes to other people my interests lies in getting a better understanding on other perspectives. Considering where I'd like to take my career it is only natural that I'm particularly interested in sex culture, the art of physical touch, and platonic/nonsexual consensual affection.

• dogs
• running
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• sexuality
• sexology
• sex education

Music, Movies, and Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -Yuval Harari
Endurance - Alfred Lansing
What It Is Like to Go to War - Karl Marlantes
With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing that no one else has ever done before. Though one time I tricked a car into slowing down by pretending to poop on the side of the road. When we made eye contact, I removed the toilet paper roll off my thumb and that's how I got a hitch hike.

Teach, Learn, Share

In 2nd grade I was put in Special Ed for a bit. Overcame adversity and remained special.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good times, interesting conversation, inspiration for future endeavors, pickles, things I found in garbage, pocket lint, nonsense, I don't know I have different things to offer to different people

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Mexico, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States