CURRENT MISSION

To explore the world and keep a record of my explorations. To meet amazing people, share adventures, dance, make music, art, love

ABOUT ME

I dropped out of school when I turned 16, and I played in a band with my best friends for a while. The lead singer was a mormon, so he had to move to Utah and then go knocking on people's doors for two years. Our band split up, but I miss it a lot. I started sitting in on classes at the University of Delaware for a free education, because I had virtually no money to attend college. For a while I biked around Wilmington and Newark with some of my best friends, dumpstering and staying at my parent's house. Most of my friends moved away, stopped biking very often, or got a job. I moved into an apartment in Newark. I got a minimum wage job serving Pizza on Mainstreet. I got a job for the University that paid much better. I also continued doing free-lance artwork on mainstreet and up in North Wilmington. I quit all of my jobs for the summer. Some of my friends that had moved away came back to Delaware so we could ride bicycles again. Only this time we rode up to New England and explored all of the states on the way, sleeping in tents, riding in the rain and riding in the sunshine. We went our separate ways in Providence, RI and then split up further in Boston, MA. I played outside for the remainder of the summer. Summer left so I asked for my jobs back, and then I enrolled at DelTech. I found a nice house in Newark to live in with 5 other friends. I traveled America throughout January with 2 of my roommates and one other friend, then I came home to my house in Newark and began working more. I left that house in May and started sleeping on friend's sofas and scamming free food from the University. I stopped going into work anywhere, but I continued to do freelance artwork and live off its income. In July I traveled through the Heartland of America with my good buddy and became inspired once more. I spent most of my summer hanging out with silver and gold friends, swimming in creeks on a regular basis. Eventually I reverted to sleeping mostly on my parent's couch, since every room is otherwise occupied. January came. New developments in my social life combined with unpleasant weather coerced me to travel south alone and volunteer for a short period of time. This crucial time served as an eye-opener and eventually led me to the realization that i need to leave the country. I fly into Madrid in April with my bicycle and sleeping bag. I hope to travel across Spain to Barcelona and then take a ferry out to Italy where I'll travel the coast.

PHILOSOPHY

I live according to my own sense of morality, formed through logic.
I don't care what rules anybody else lives by as long as I'm not negatively impacted.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm currently living on a couch/ in my car, so I'm afraid I don't have anything to offer besides a good conversation and/or adventure. Once I return to Delaware from my travels (in September I think) I plan on finding a house and participating more thoroughly in "The Couch Surfing Project".

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Technically, I've been couchsurfing since May 2006. But only amongst friends I've known in person, and mostly in the warmer months.

Interests

traveling, learning, music, art, vegetarian food

• arts
• dancing
• education
• dining
• vegetarian
• flying
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• swimming
• teaching
• freelancing
• logic
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

!!!, against me!, alison ranger, aloha, animal collective, appleseed cast, arcade fire, at the drive-in, atom and his package, badly drawn boy, bear vs. shark, beastie boys, beck, beep beep, ben folds, b'gosh, black heart procession, bloc party, blonde redhead, blood brothers, boards of canada, bob dylan, bonnie prince billy, boris, the boy least likely to, braid, brian wilson, bright eyes, broken social scene, built to spill, caribou, the catalyst, cat power, cat stevens, ccr, choking victim, circle takes the square, clap your hands say yeah!, cLOUDEAD, colossal, concrete blond, concrete blonde, converge, cream, cursive, david bowie, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, deerhoof, desaparacidos, dick swingin kids, do make say think, don caballero, doug martsch, dukes of dixieland, earth wind and fire, elliot, envy, the evens, explosions in the sky, fleetwood mac, frank black, from monument to masses, fugazi, get-up kids, the go! team, godspeed! you black emperor, the good life, grade, grizzly bear, the halo benders, heart, hella, hokkaido concern, hot hot heat, ida, interpol, iron and wine, islands, jackson 5, jesse and the rippers, jethro tull, jimi hendrix, joan of arc, joanna newsom, johnny cash, joshua fit for battle, kids of wydney high, the knife, la quiette, lamb of god, le tigre, led zeppelin, leftover crack, les savy fav, m.ward, m.i.a., m83, magnolia electric co., majority rule, malady, man man, mates of state, matt pond pa, menomena, minus the bear, mirah, modest mouse, mogwai, mr.lif, murder city devils, my morning jacket, neutral milk hotel, of montreal, old ozma, old weezer, orchid, pg.99, pinback, pink floyd, the polyphonic spree, pretty girls make graves, q and not u, raccoon, radiohead, rainer maria, ratatat, red hot chili peppers, refused, regina spektor, reversal of man, rilo kiley, sage francis, screeching weasel, shellac, the ships, smashing pumpkins, songs ohia, sonic youth, stevie nicks, sufjan stevens, sunset rubdown, swan lake, talking heads, team dresch, the anniversary, the assistant, the beach boys, the beatles, the cars, the clash, the cure, the decemberists, the faint, the flaming lips, the good life, the kinks, the libertines, the locust, magnolia electric co, the mars volta, mass movement of the moth, meneguar, the microphones, the owls, the pixies, the police, the postal service, the rentals, the shins, the slackers, the smiths, the strokes, the weakerthans, the white stripes, tilly and the wall, they might be giants, this bike is a pipe bomb, three mile pilot, thursday, tristeza, tree people, tv on the radio, ugly cassanova, ultra dolphins, the unicorns, velvet underground, violent femmes, why?, wolf parade, xiu xiu, yeah yeah yeahs, yes

Ishmael, Days of War Nights of Love, any Kurt Vonnegut, most Tom Robbins, Noam Chomsky, Al Franken, The Lorax

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States