Currently travelling the world. Will be accepting guests again once I'm back home in Sydney and have a place of my own.

I love art, music and creativity while trying my best to not let it turn me into wanker. I've travelled through Japan, Vietnam, Mexico, USA's west coast, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Panama, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, the UK and am about to hit Turkey before heading home to Sydney. I've been told I'm enjoyable company and a good drinking companion.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

While living in Sydney, I hosted an army of backpackers and accepted the generous hospitality of strangers on my own travels. I find that couch surfing is perhaps the best way to live in the local's world, hidden to any who insist on hotels and expensive tours. I'm a big fan and believer of people and the kindness of strangers (a stranger's just a friend you haven't met!)

Interests

I write fiction and articles for music rags. I'm a fan of all art, be it visual, audio, culinary, and everything in between. I enjoy getting off the beaten path and exploring the unknown. I'm a big lover of music, I don't hate anything really, but love the majority of sounds. Beaches, hiking, and all the good things of the world.

• arts
• dining
• recipes
• drinking
• traveling
• origami
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• tours
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Mountain Goats, Yo La Tengo, Courtney Barnett, Dappled Cities, A Tribe Called Quest, Queens of the Stone Age, Beirut, Tallest Man On Earth, Iron & Wine, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (I could go on, but ipod wars are so much more fun and enlightening).

Movies: The Life Aquatic, In Bruges, Fargo, Manhattan, Whatever Works, Darjeeling Limited, Wind That Shakes The Barley, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, No Country For Old Men

Books: A Song Of Ice & Fire series, Grapes Of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, Discworld series, All They Pretty Horses, For Whom The Bell Tolls, 1984, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Foundation series, Ham On Rye

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One? Only one? Life's not one experience!
I've swum with whale sharks, jumped from a plane (with a parachute, luckily), performed stand up comedy (scarier than sky diving), rode a bike across Vietnam, climbed mountains, chased a bobcat through a forest, chilled with an army of seals on a beach, smoked a joint atop a volcano. But there's plenty more to come.

What I Can Share with Hosts

The tastiest of unhealthy food recipes, bad jokes, music, stories, experiences, tricks and skills (body surfing and origami, anyone?)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Costa Rica, Cuba, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, England