CURRENT MISSION

To get out and travel the world for a year. Meet new people, expereince new cultures, share stories, and learn.

ABOUT ME

I love traveling. Have been traveling in New zealand for the past few months and then plan on heading onward to south east asia. I just finished studying anthropology and international relations at my university in the states. I love meeting new people, am pretty easy going.

PHILOSOPHY

"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards."

- Edward Abbey

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet, will start traveling in mid October for a year.

Interests

travel, tennis, soccer, photography, backpacking, climbing, the outdoors, learning, laughing.

• photography
• running
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• backpacking
• boxing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• tennis
• anthropology
• international relations
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Life is Beautiful
Music: Almost everything. Bluegrass (railroad earth, elephant revival), Fleet foxes, Sigur ros, and many more.
Books: Enders game.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

seeing a lightning storm at the top of mount baker in washington

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Haiti, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Monaco, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kenya, United States