CURRENT MISSION

Biking cross-country from Washington to Maine with my wife Chelsea.

ABOUT ME

Random in a structured way. I like physical activity of pretty much any sort but gravitate toward careening around on a mountain bike.

Prefer my bike to a car and a train to a plane. Love to make others laugh but can be serious 10% of the time if absolutely necessary. After six years of hard effort, I built a business that allows us the luxury to travel and explore the world while I work remotely.

PHILOSOPHY

Help others first... Be smart, be nice, do what you love and HAVE FUN!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Spectacular Las Fallas in Valencia amidst the roar and confusion of fireworks and late-night Spanish flamenco; raiding the Berlin Wall from the home base Johannes provided is another topper; getting stranded between bridges at 3am in St. Petersburg during the White Nights. Second keyword: climb

Interests

Meeting eclectic people who don't feel threatening. Reading books about the way the world works. Exercising until my muscles and lungs burn. Challenging my mind and body. Foreign travel for no other reason than because it isn't home. Mountain biking in the middle of nowhere. Creating businesses that help the world.

• books
• flamenco
• exercise
• walking
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• wrestling
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Wilco, Andrew Bird, Keyword: Laugh, M. Ward, Devil Makes Three, Arcade Fire, Josh Ritter, Band of Horses, Calexico, Roman Candle, Modest Mouse, The New Pornographers, Bright Eyes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Spoon, Ugly Casanova, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Beck, Led Zeppelin, American Analog Set, Rolling Stones, Stone Temple Pilots, The Mountain Goats, The Shins, Postal Service, Dispatch, The Flaming Lips, Greenday (old favorites die hard), Pinback, The Killers, Mason Jennings, Morcheeba, Neutral Milk Hotel...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching a glint of sunrise on Hua Shan in China with my wife Chelsea...listening to cataclysmic rain pour down in the jungles of Borneo - and then cresting the top of Mt. Kinabalu a few days later...playing chess on the swaying Trans-Siberian railroad with my brother Finn...arm wrestling drunk Burmese guys after an afternoon of play with their children...walking a quiet apple orchard in the shadow of Mt. Hood on a crisp autumn day...pulling through a tough climb in Yosemite or Canada, muscles screaming and head hot from the sun. Riding pine to palms on a long mountain bike odyssey near Palm Springs.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Germany, Guatemala, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden, United States

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