Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just had my first CS experience hosting some wonderful people from Turkey. It was a great time and opened me up to the idea of hosting more. Then we went a month or so later and visited them in Turkey. It was a great time. I have hosted a couple times. It is always more fun to host than it is to be hosted I think. But we enjoy both,

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My experience with Couchsurfing is sort of hit or miss. I have hosted once and it was a great time. I made some great friends, who I later went and stayed with in Istanbul. We attended a CS meeting/mixer there and it was a pleasant time. But the miss part is the literally hundreds of requests for couches, coffee, advice, etc, that have been unreturned. That is my only problem with couchsurfing is that I wish it was more reliable. But when it works out I think it is amazing.

Interests

The world and everything in it.

• dogs
• concerts
• dancing
• cooking
• coffee
• drinking
• clubbing
• pub crawls
• boating
• technology
• traveling
• music
• live music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Where to begin, movies: Stanley Kubrick, Cohen Brothers, comedy, documentary, musicals, etc....music: all kinds grateful dead, phish, frank zappa, old r&b, prince, indie....books: irving welsh, hunter s. thompson, cookbooks ernest hemingway, cormac mccarthy, please ask me.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It is hard to narrow it down. Music really does it for me. There have been a few times when I have gone to a concert and on that particular nite the band was really on. And I don't just mean playing good. Its like they really get into the moment, and when you are there you become a part of it. Everything else just melts away. Its a pretty amazing feeling.

Teach, Learn, Share

I was a professional cook for about a decade. I still cook at home. I like cooking breakfast.

I want to learn languages. I took Spanish in high school and when I went to Costa Rica I thought I functioned well, I wasn't having deep philosophical conversations, but I could translate for my group if someone was trying to communicate to us.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States