CURRENT MISSION

Rock climb the US. And studying tree rings.

ABOUT ME

I'm a grad student at the Arizona State University. I've traveled around the US a bit. Spending two months climbing across the western US this summer. I am quite bad at describing myself.

PHILOSOPHY

I make some bomb vegan pancakes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have couch surfed once. So I am still fairly new to it. I'm interested in becoming more involved. I am looking to host folks in Tempe, AZ. Particularly if they would like to go climbing somewhere in AZ.

I am also going to be traveling this summer, and am hoping to find someone to host me in Baltimore where I'll be participating in an ecology conference.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My friend did a lot of coushsurfing a few years ago in prague, and when he came back to San Francisco this summer, he decided to do some hosting himself. One of the people he hosted ended up staying much longer than he expected, and we are now very good friends. He was from France, and when I visited France we got to reconnect. It was great.

Interests

Snacks, Coffee, good books, beautiful films, and lots of music. Backpacking, skiing, climbing, canoeing, biking, and beaches, mountains, deserts, lakes and snow. I enjoy being in nature in the middle of nowhere with a few good friends. Deep thought. Poorly cooked but tasty meals. Eating vegan, but taking time to enjoy crêpes and croissants. I like fog too.

• books
• beauty
• beer
• coffee
• vegan
• dieting
• movies
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• canoeing
• scuba diving
• skiing
• rock climbing
• ecology
• beaches
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books!: "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" by Alan Sillitoe. "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky. "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemmingway. "Down and Out in Paris and London" and "Homage To Catalonia" by Orwell. "Season of Migration To The North" by Tayeb Salih. Also really liked "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Brecht.
Movies!: "Le Scaphandre et Le Papillion," "Singularités D'une Jeune Fille Blonde," "In Bruges," "Before Night Falls," "Mulholland Drive," "Reprise," "Au Bout De Souffle (Breathless)," "Chinatown," "A Clockwork Orange," "Dead Man," "City of God," "The Battle of Algiers," "The Big Sleep," "The Big Lebowski," Dancer in the Dark," and a plethora of westerns, such as the entire "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" series, and "Unforgiven."
Music!: Lots of it. Dirty blues: John Lee Hooker/R.L. Burnside/Junior Kimbrough/Black Keys/Robert Johnson/John Mayall, the classics (The Kinks/Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath/Dylan/Pink Floyd..), classical (Debussy/Rachmaninov), minimalism (Arvo Part/Steve Reich), lots of folk, recently a lot of electro/house/techno in Paris, Trip-hop, lots of Coltrane/Herbie Hancock/Miles/Louis Armstrong and Jim Black/John Hollenbeck/Human Feel, Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and The Pharcyde and Souls of Mischief and A Tribe Called Quest, and Animal Collective and The Maytals and Tom Waits and... but also Meshuggah. And anything funky.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rode my bike down the California coast from Eugene, OR to San Francisco, CA. I met a ton of other people who I camped with every night along the way and generally basked in the beauty of the california coastline and the redwood trees.

Teach, Learn, Share

How to brew your very own, delicious, cheap beer.
Dumpster Diving.
Ecology, Climate change, and a carbon conscious diet.
Rock climbing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Same as above. If you host me in Baltimore you can hear my practice talk (woo!...)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States