CURRENT MISSION

Learn to sail. Sail around the world.

ABOUT ME

International development & economics researcher, originally from California. Work takes me everywhere - just the way I like it - so I've lived in China, India, Sierra Leone, Indonesia, and Myanmar, and couch surfed or camped everywhere in between.

I love spicy food.
I'll try anything twice.
I'd rather dance with you than talk with your.

PHILOSOPHY

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
and
go big or go home

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't really participate: my couch does all the work

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have couchsurfed across America, South America, China, West and East Africa, India, Nepal, and SE Asia. My house *was* the most popular couchsurfing destination in Central California once upon a time, and we made every surfer make us a drawing or a painting. The resulting collection should be in the Louvre.

Interests

music, food, travel, phrenology

• singing
• dancing
• dining
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• sailing
• economics

Music, Movies, and Books

I love reading -- the kindle has changed my life -- and music. I say yes to every music festival I've ever encountered. As a Californian, I'm biased, but I'm a five-time Coachella veteran and it is my favorite.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked the Inca Trail in Peru and the Himalayas in India and Nepal.
Ran with the Bulls in Spain.
Cycled across Africa.
Can't believe I ate the whole thing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Nepal has not had a constitution since 2008.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, French Polynesia, Gambia, Germany, Gibraltar, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, U.S., Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, India, Iran, Peru, Sierra Leone, United States

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