CURRENT MISSION
Now living on the East Coast in Northfield Falls, Vt. Hunkering down for the winter.

ABOUT ME

Chef. I love tattoos, I have sold some of my photos now so I guess maybe I can officially call myself a photographer, a yogi,an avid reader, coffee drinker, people watcher, and I love having a few beers and good times with friends. Also, quiet mornings and quiet evenings, cooking, coffee, people watching is one my favorite things for sure, long walks, good conversation, even heated debates with people who aren't too easily offended, a good cigarette now and then, being barefoot, sleeping next to a river, throwing a frisbee, soccer or futbol, basketball, the roar of a crowd, skate and snowboarding, chess, watching a storm roll in, epic and immortal words...

I suppose I could balance it out with things I don't like but who cares, right?

PHILOSOPHY

You are not a cog in a machine, but a fiery, breathing, bleeding being. You mean everything if you choose that path.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I was told about CS when I decided to start traveling Spain. I don't have much experience with the site but am eager to get involved. It seems a great place and experience!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

enjoying my first CS experience in Ramonville, outside of Toulouse, Fr. out in the countryside...

Interests

Yogic philosophy, sociology, photography, history, literature, people, soccer, the nature of perception, religions, environmentalism, the right of all living creatures to exist peacefully and unhindered, animal rights, politics, unfortunately...I'm highly inquisitive by nature, so I'm interested in just about anything that has meaning and purpose, relatively speaking, of course.

• animals
• literature
• photography
• tattoos
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• politics
• chess
• traveling
• cars
• surfing
• snowboarding
• basketball
• soccer
• history
• religion
• sociology
• tourism
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Amelie, The Big Lebowski, Garden State, Baraka, Lords of Dogtown, any skateboard or snowboard flick, Natural Born Killers, Lord of the Rings Trio, A Clockwork Orange, O 'Brother Where Art Thou?, Borat, Dumb and Dumber, Friday, Scarface

Book: 100 Years of Solitude, Open Veins of Latin America by Galeano and his "Memory of Fire" trilogy, The Prophet, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, Autobiography of a Yogi, On the Road, Into Thin Air, The Idiot, Anna Karanina, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Demian, Atlas Shrugged, Into the Wild, Oliver Twist, Ishmael, Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell", Pride and Prejudice, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Pillars of the Earth, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Dune, Wuthering Heights, The Historian, Roots, 1984, Che

Music: The Beatles, The Stones, Beth Orton, The Cure, Glen Hansard, The Pogues, Neil Young, Wu Tang, The Roots, Beastie Boys, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Kasabian, Radiohead, The Verve, The Walkmen, The Decemberists, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Iron and Wine, Jose Gonzalez, Stone Roses, Janes Addiction, Bob Dylan, Silversun Pickups, Arctic Monkeys, Elliot Smith, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh,Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, most piano music, I love electronic music as well/a good DJ! More and more though, I just enjoy silence. It is great music!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

once hitchhiked around the Western U.S. for two months, sleeping on the beach and surfing in L.A. after winning $100 to buy a board on a lottery ticket I purchased with my last $10!, riding in stolen vehicles(unbeknownst to me at the time of pickup),getting food poisoning in the middle of the desert, sleeping in the woods of S. Oregon and on the streets of Eugene, and culminating in a train hop from Oregon to Cheyenne, Wy. Never been dirtier in my life after the train ride! or happier...

Teach, Learn, Share

I feel like maybe the most difficult lesson or challenge most of us face is the ability to let go, to not try and control a given situation, but to let it unfold naturally, opening up to grace, allowing the universe or Source to guide us in whatever way is ultimately best for us. Fear prevents us from being able to do this, fear of the unknown, being afraid of the future. If we can learn to let go, in the end we find that there was never anything to cower before, that we were and are exactly where and what we are meant to be.

We are a creation of our minds. The roads that we lay early in life due to conditions surrounding and effecting us, provide the groundwork for the way we will live our life. It's up to us, at any point, to decide what is best or worst for ourselves and to act upon it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, France, India, Mexico, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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