CURRENT MISSION

Steadily increasing my successes by doubling my failures.

ABOUT ME

I am an enthusiastic introvert, road warrior, and wanderer. I enjoy getting lost and then looking at a map to figure out where I've landed.

PHILOSOPHY

Unity in what is essential. Liberty in non-essentials. And in all things, charity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sharing community, conversation and a good drink while opening the doors of my house to friends and guests.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My most unusual couch surfing experience was once when I agreed to host a particular individual who traveling cross-country by bus. I learned the day she was set to arrive that the bus station had moved across town and that I had no idea when she was going to arrive, nor did I have a means of contacting her. After waiting on the curb at a gas station with a bunch of other confused bus travelers, I left my number with a station attendant and began giving other stranded travelers rides to public transit depots in town, eventually offered my vacant couch to a hitchhiker I met while waiting. I woke up the next day and checked the CS site, discovering that my misplaced surfer had missed her stop in Santa Fe and was 800 miles away in California, instead. Get phone numbers from your surfers...

Interests

Christian apologetics and theology. Animation in all media, old and new. Teaching and learning new things from my students. Getting away from my computer and going for a hike in the mountains. Dancing (swing, blues, tango), cooking...Motorcycles! Road trips and reconnecting with old friends.

• dancing
• tango
• cooking
• drinking
• motorcycles
• traveling
• blues
• hiking
• surfing
• animation
• communications
• divinity
• history
• road trips
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Anime and animation in a variety of genres and categories (Paprika, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) Not a huge fan of gross-out or pop culture comedies though I thoroughly enjoy Monty Python's Flying Circus. I read books by people like Ray Bradbury, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Peter S. Beagle, Oscar Wilde, R.L. Stevenson and H.G. Wells. I'm a total nerd.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dancing on the Santa Fe plaza bandstand at midnight with the most beautiful girl in the world. Lights strung up in the trees. Not another soul in sight...marrying that same girl a couple years later and still dancing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Want to discuss or learn about animation and it's history/prospects? Curious about motorcycling? Never knew the U.S. even had a state called New Mexico? I'll be happy to introduce you to green chile!

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Ireland

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