I like animals and bicycles. I like making art and hiking, drinking local adult beverages, watching movies, playing board/card games, bowling, billiards, skating rinks, tree forts, gardening, cob houses, fixing things that are broken, and being a goofball.

I have a website to showcase my artwork and various projects on if you want to learn more about all of that:

www.dougsbiketrailerpalace.weebly.com

And I do the Instragram thing: trailers4all

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Well obviously I'm on couch surfing because it's a cheap way to travel! I'm an artist, which means my income is kind of small. I like to travel, and right now I live in Santa Cruz, but routinely commute up to Oakland for work/teaching welding at The Crucible. I'd love to move to Oakland but the cost of living/average rent there is restrictively expensive. I'm still trying to decide if I'll end up trying to move there, or to some other far-flung corner of the world. I want to be somewhere where I feel like I belong.

Interests

In no particular order:

Art
Bicycles
Crosswords
Dahlias
Elephants
Fermentation
Gardening
Happiness
Ionizing columns of compressed air into plasma for cutting steel
Joking around
Kitties
Limes (they're just the tastiest dern things when added to some dishes)
Mother Jones
Neutralizing my carbon footprint
Otter watching
PUNS!!!
Q I got nothin'
Red beans and rice
Screen printing silly/radical t-shirts
Tattooing
U check back later
Volts!
World travel
X marked spots
Yeehaw
Zoom zoom zoom

• animals
• arts
• illustrations
• tattoos
• cooking
• drinking
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• billiards
• hiking
• surfing
• bowling

Music, Movies, and Books

Musically I'm pretty amenable to a good many things, genres and sub-genres. . . just ask? Lately I've been listening to a cd called The Best of Salt-N-Pepa

I do listen to podcasts a lot:
Judge Jon Hodgman
Unfictional
Radiolab
This American Life
Savage Lovecast
99% Invisible

Bookwise, I've been on a Robbins kick lately, but more recently than that I picked up a subscription to the Sunday NYT, which, in tandem with a subscription to Mother Jones, has sucked up all of my available reading time. I also enjoy Sedaris, Rackoff, Bryson, Vonnegut, and lots of other writers and works. Reading is cool.

And yay moving pictures!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One time I biked about 1600 miles along the Atlantic coast of France, down and over to Marseilles. I'd like to do that again someday.

Teach, Learn, Share

I do all kinds of things, so hit me up if you'd like advice about screen printing, metal working, welding more specifically, bicycle repair, illustration or tattooing (I'm a self-taught novice in the art form of tattooing. I think I do fairly well.).

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm happy to help cook and play a game, provide some company and conversation if that's a thing hosts are hoping to get more of in their lives.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Ireland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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