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Overview
About Me
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.