CURRENT MISSION

To travel around the world without flying.

ABOUT ME

I'm 38. I left New York City in August of 2007 to take a long slow trip around the world. My plan is to travel around the globe without using airplanes.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is easy, just let go - and have a little money.
Charles Bukowski.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet

Interests

film, sailing, writing (wish I was better), reading anything, computers, traveling (of course), photography, journalism

• writing
• photography
• flying
• boating
• reading
• traveling
• sailing
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Bukowski, Auster, Murakami, Doctrow, Kubrick, Malick, Welles, Wells too I suppose, Nicholson Baker

The Third Man, Thin Red Line, Manhattan, City of God, Raging Bull, Chinatown, Touch of Evil, The original Taking of Pelham 1,2,3.

The Fermata, The Sun Also Rises, Moby Dick, The Stars My Destination, Billy Bathgate, Hollywood (bukowski), Kafka On The Shore, Name of The Rose, Omnivore's Dilemma, QED by Feynman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

sailed across the pacific in my own boat with two crew-members and alone from Tonga to New Zealand.

Teach, Learn, Share

film history, film/video editing, some html and javasciprt, macintosh computer stuff, sailing, a bit of diesel engine knowledge, electrical stuff (home wiring+), interested in and know some mythology and ancient roman/western civilization