CURRENT MISSION

Adventurous travel emphasizing cultural exchange

ABOUT ME

I think that my friends would say that I am a very thoughtful person. Also good-natured with a positive outlook and a whimsical sense of humor.

PHILOSOPHY

Happiness is not a destination; it is a mode of traveling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As of June 2013, we have hosted ten surfers (in five groups) at our home in Denver. We also have attended several of the Denver CS weekly events. We traveled to Australia and New Zealand earlier this year and were very pleased with our surfing experiences there.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have greatly enjoyed hosting all of our surfing guests. And our conversations with people at the local events have been utterly fascinating. How else would I have ever met a Libyan who grew up in Turkey and lived in Morocco before moving to the U.S.?

Interests

My life as a lawyer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency absorbs a lot of my time and energy. But it is not just a job--it is the career that I wanted. It still energizes me after more than thirty years. I also have other major interests, however. These include bicycling, chess, hiking and photography.

• photography
• chess
• traveling
• hiking
• surfing
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Some representative favorites: Poisonwood Bible; A Short History of Nearly Everything; Guns, Germs and Steel (books). Being John Malkovich; Casablanca; War and Peace (films). Eva Cassidy, Bonnie Raitt, Spearhead, String Cheese Incident,Grateful Dead (music).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It is difficult to choose only one because I have been lucky enough to have quite a few. One that I can't ignore is visiting the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala in 1975. At the time, there was an older higher cone that we climbed at night, so that we could look down on the erupting newer cone. Any display of red hot lava is spectacular, but this was absolutely phenomenal.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a fair amount about environmental protection law, if that's of interest to you.