CURRENT MISSION

To open lids, look inside, and understand the concept of boxes.

ABOUT ME

I am a good egg.

Dual national American/Norwegian living for the last 10+ odd years in Japan who's a photographer with some lenses and squinty eyes. Crazy about trekking & climbing mountains. I wish I didn't need to sleep, but I like my dreams. Often don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm usually sure when I find it. I feel most at home when I'm not from around here.

photography:
http://edwardjrichards.tumblr.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/edwardjrichards/

videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/sigurdticaca

self-indulgent phone photography:
http://instagram.com/edwardr1chards

PHILOSOPHY

The moon is a lamp.

Don't worry, these batteries are rechargeable.

We are the universe contemplating its own existence.

Sometimes, waffles.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm using couchsurfing to meet people not furniture.

I do like furniture, though. Especially if it's wood.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been meeting people independently traveling the old timey way for many years, back when we all wore onions in our belts, because that was the fashion of the time, but now I'm trying out using this 010101010101010101 couchsurfing dot com and I think it will be a thing.

Interests

Photography, videography, cinema, literature, & music. Cooking & eating. Cold refreshing water. Extended days trekking and climbing across trippy landscapes. Expanding and contracting. Cilantro. The visible spectrum.

• cats
• literature
• fashion
• photography
• concerts
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• rock climbing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Wes Anderson, Jarmusch, Kiarostami, Scorsese, Godard, P.T. Anderson, John Ford, Majidi, Imamura, Solondz, Charlie Kaufman, Herzog, Wiseman, Monty Python, Kaurismäki, Alexander Payne, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Roberto Benigni, Cohens, Noah Baumbach, Woody, Spike Jonze, Milos Forman, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino, Terry Gilliam...

Dylan, Velvet Underground, Mingus, Tom Waits, Neutral Milk Hotel, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Lata Mangeshkar, Clash, R.E.M., Daniel Johnston, Grateful Dead, Dead Kennedys, Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Pavement, Brian Jonestown Experience, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, Dolly Parton, the Mountain Goats, Desmond Dekker, Nick Drake, Ravi Shankar, Blind Willie Johnson, Ali Farka Touré, Phish, Miles Davis, Leadbelly, Neil Young, Robert Johnson, Françoise Hardy, John Prine...

Vonnegut, Kundera, Čapek, Camus, D.F.Wallace, Nabokov, J. Barnes, Bukowski, Paul Bowles, Montaigne, Kafka, Maugham, Hamsun, Hunter S., Huxley, Gabriel García Márquez, Edward Abbey, Carl Sagan, Nietzsche, Céline, Dostoevsky, Kazantzakis, Edgar Poe, William Blake, George Carlin, Jonathan Swift, J.D.Salinger, Henry Miller, D.Adams...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Was a child.
-Learned some things in school.
-Fished a summer in Alaska.
-Fought fires in the Pacific Northwest.
-Worked in a Fire Lookout Tower in Oregon.
-Worked backstage at a Nirvana concert in 1993.
-Lived 2 1/4 years in Praha, the Czech Republic.
-Traveled overland from Syria to India in 1997.
-Trekked in USA, CZ, Norway, Japan, Vietnam, Iran, Pakistan, & India.
-Got married.
-Raised a cat without eyes. She's sitting on my lap as I am typing this. Now I am done.

Teach, Learn, Share

All of the tips I've accumulated through both success and regret are available.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Thailand, United States

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