i traveled for 12 years in my youth meeting strangers through the internet. i learned how to be a good guest. then i lived in NYC a decade and hosted as many people as i could. i gave up my apartment in 2018 and why back to roaming. i spent seven months in italy in 2018. in 2019 i spent the first four months in South East Asia, then traveling the NE of the USA, then with family in the midwest. i was in Mexico in early 2020 and stayed there til the summer… then built a garden on family land in Indiana. i’ve currently been living between Italy and NYC for the last year. my facebook is open if you're interested in checking me out and i am happy to answer any questions. i am a gay man who is more of a nature boy / mountain man than into urban gay culture. i know how to entertain myself and am never bored. i have made my living for the last 20 years giving massage and teaching yoga, qigong, and other healing arts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

new times, new ways. though i've often had good luck with the world just aligning magic, this is a new (to me) way to do something i've been doing my whole life. i enjoy staying with local people over staying in hotels. i like hearing stories of their lives and offering to be of whatever service i can be.

Interests

• writing
• singing
• photography
• yoga
• massage therapy
• modeling
• meditation
• sauna
• walking
• traveling
• magic
• music
• live music
• hiking
• swimming
• nature
• massage
• nudist
• naturism
• massages
• bike riding
• healing
• herbs
• reiki
• bears
• trees
• climbing trees
• qigong
• thai massage
• nature walks
• nude beaches
• barefoot
• landscape photography
• gays

Music, Movies, and Books

radiohead, noel coward, owen pallett, Devendra Banhart.
the never ending story, interstellar, drowning by numbers
"little, big" by john crowley, essential Rumi, Kafka's short stories

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

walked 1000kms across spain (camino de santiago de compostela).

Teach, Learn, Share

i love teaching yoga, qigong and meditation.
i'm always interesting in hearing people's life motivations and stories
i love being useful around a place, helping build things or cook or give massages, good with computers, etc...

What I Can Share with Hosts

i can give regular massages, qigong or yoga practice, stories of the uncommon life i've lived. . . any useful service extra hands can bring.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, United States