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Overview

  • 12 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • financial analyst
  • books, teachers, friends, traveling
  • From kansas city
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

just go

ABOUT ME

I'm easy-going but love to get out, explore, and have a good time. Whenever I have the money and enough free time, I travel. To me, it is the most fun, exciting, and fulfilling thing in life.

Massive Arsenal supporter - and since I live in the US that means early Saturday and Sunday mornings at the pub.

I'm intrigued by good food and drink and enjoy exploring restaurants and bars all over the world. I think sharing food is the best way to experience a culture and I'm always up to cook.

My birth certificate says Miami, I grew up in Kansas City, went to university in Texas, studied in Copenhagen, and have since lived in New York City, Wyoming, and now Chicago. Where next?

PHILOSOPHY

At some point while traveling, after you have been to enough places, met enough interesting people, you get hooked. If you haven't yet, keep traveling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love meeting new people and learning about different cultures, so CouchSurfing is perfect for that. It's also really cool to have friends and contacts around the world. Makes the world feel like a pretty small place...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed in Denmark, Croatia, and Switzerland...all great experiences. Hosted in NYC and now Chicago.

Interests

Football/soccer, meeting new people, reading, Arsenal FC, trying new restaurants, walking around in cities where I don't know the local language, cheese, pubs, live music, trying bizarre/new foods, tailgating in the south, cold beer, barbeque (from Kansas City!), traveling - anywhere

  • culture
  • dining
  • cooking
  • cheese
  • beer
  • bbq
  • walking
  • drinking
  • pub crawls
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: changing all the time

Books: Catch-22, The Alchemist, Fever Pitch, Hemingway

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States

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