CURRENT MISSION

Find a patch of land without concrete or 20 other people. A tough mission when you live in the city.

ABOUT ME

People either say I'm the oddest person they've met or the most normal. I'd rather not weigh in and say which ones are right.

PHILOSOPHY

Give more than you take. Be open and honest to everyone and everything. Make the most of every situation. And I'm finding that "no" is usually the wrong answer to almost any question, so I've taken to blindly following my impulses.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Mostly with friends in the States, but I've also crashed with some cool missionaries in Guyana, some bums outside the airport in Paris, and a little man with a Napolean complex in Bangkok.

Interests

Music, travel, writing, food, photography, cycling, rock climbing, snowboarding, singing at the top of my lungs while I bang on my guitar

• wildlife
• writing
• singing
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• snowboarding
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music-I'll try to keep the list short-Wilco, Soul Coughing, Flaming Lips, The Hold Steady, Bright Eyes, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, The Shins, Beck, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Zeppelin... well, I've gone on long enough already so I'll move onto books (actually authors, so I can keep the list shorter)-Haruki Murakami, Tom Robbins, Graham Greene, Dostoyevsy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, etc. Movies-The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, Goodfellas, Star Wars, and Wayne's World

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Befriended some monkeys in the Surinamese jungle and lived with them for almost a year.

Teach, Learn, Share

I play guitar and sing, rock climb, cook, and do a lot of travel/wildlife photography. And I'm a kick-ass freestyle rapper.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, France, Guyana, Italy, Japan, Laos, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago

Countries I’ve Lived In

Suriname, Thailand, United States

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