CURRENT MISSION

To find and eat food that tastes like something

ABOUT ME

Warning: I'm prone to typos. If bad grammar makes you allergic, possibly grab the box of Kleenexes.

Tambien, yo estoy tratando descibirme en español. Es dificil.

I love to cook and wield curry powder and fresh veggies in dangerous quantities. My E-mail correspondence is often long and highly parenthetical. Every thrift store in the world (in my mind at least) has exactly what I want, so I just need to manage to visit them all. In a dispute between the Greyhound buses and the airplanes, I side with the raw silver dog everytime. Want to know about the world? Listen to Mr. Bob Dylan.

Puedo echuchar a Bob Dylan todos los dias y yo empece tocar la guitara por que echuché la musica de Bob Dylan. Yo tocaba en muchos grupos de rock pero todos los grupos no estaban buenos. Me encanta cantar y yo canto mucho, pero tengo la voz de un pajaro olvidado. Que lastima! Me Enseña cantar bien, por favor!

Me gusta montar bicicletas antiguas y voy lento. Yo cocino demasiado "curry." Es mi comida favorito y quiero ser un experto del "curry." Me gusta pasear y hacer senderismo. Yo andé por 100 kilometers cerca de Lago de Tahoe en California y canté cada cancion que yo sabía, meintras andaba. Muy divertido.

PHILOSOPHY

To Dabble: to try as many different jobs out in fields I'm interested in, to travel to as many places as possible and meet as many people too. Lacking any flicker of genius, it would be nice to be a Renaissance man, but of course probably to be vaguely mediocre at all my hobbies. To have a nice broad experience. Working in an office taught me that though Excel is great, I would rather excel maybe at something else less mind-cannibalizing. And I guess to make miserable puns, but philosophically?

Philosofia en espanol? Verdad? Es como yo trato de aprendar todo. Nunca es possible aprendar todo, todavia no hay una problema con este idea. Me encantan muchas cosas en el mundo y yo sea competente en los cada cosa. Tambien, yo quiero encontrar muchas personas que amar hablar. Es muy importante. Entiendo el mensaje (tema?)-- la verdad de Candide, pero yo quire ser un "Stoic" como Marcus Aurelius.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I couch surfed and had a coffee and drink meet up with some great folks in Portland, OR. People in Berkeley have been really kind and showed me some real cool parts of their city. Now in Cuenca and I stayed with a cool couple who´ve given me heaps of good advice and food. I have met people in Miami through Couchsurfing as well as Chicago.

Quiero encontrar a muchos persones. La gente de "couch surfing" es muy interesante y inteligente. Yo visiti Porltand, Or, Berkley, CA y me cayeron bien con todos.
Quiero econtrarme con otros que han vivido en Cuenca. Conoci Ryan Moore y su esposa Gaby y eran muy amables y verdadoro sabios de que pasa en Cuenca.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have only been a guest and down some meet ups. I do really like the coffee and drink meet up. It´s under-rated. Everyone I've encountered from this website has been resoundingly cool. It's amazing how well it's worked out.

Todos que he conocido son personas maravillosas. Van a hacer cualquier cosa para que sea feliz y espero que yo haga lo mismo.

Interests

Playing guitar, uke and singing songs in a voice that I someday hope will magically improve. Cooking, baking Grandma's old-fashioned roll recipe, having kids tell me outrageous stories, riding buses away from Nevada, hiking, backpacking, trail-building, lumberjack action, pontificating, pedantic rambles, reading books, buying many more books than I will ever read, writing bad poems and short stories, thrift store scrounging, meeting new people who will tell me absurd stories, riding bikes, cross-country skiing, jumping in cold rivers and lakes, visiting Wisconsin shrines built by religious nut jobs (there are many such shrines), trying to be a smell detective and discover what the bags of unmarked spices in my cabinet are, all things Lake Superior-related, hearing strangers talk art on trains, and my favorite activity of all time-- talking about feelings!

Leer, hablar por mucho tiempo, hacer treking, concinar, hacer postres, bañarse in rios frios, montar bicicletas, esquiar en campo, snowboarding, tomar las fotos, tocar musica, ukelele, guitara, cantar, autobuses y los estaciones de autobus. Ir a la playa y vestirme en zapatos. Mis pies son muy blancos. Los gatos grande, ojos de gatos, escribir muchos phrases malos en Espanol, escribir los poemas malos en ingles, ver a la gente tocan las frutas en los supermarcados a decidir si ellos compre estas frutas, ver las mapas extraños, peliculas raras, las politicas, tomar muchas fotos, grandes cuidades y pequenos pueblos, hablar con las personas sin techo, nunca afeitarse, montañas, hacer bebidas sin la licora (fresa ginger y horchata)y cuando la gente discuten sus problemas con sus animales.

• dogs
• arts
• writing
• books
• poetry
• singing
• beauty
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• baking
• drinking
• gardening
• thrifting
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• hiking
• backpacking
• surfing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• boxing
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Books! Libros!
1.Confederacy of Dunces
2.A Frolic of His Own
3.Winesburg, Ohio
4.In Our Time
5.Swann's Way
6.Love in the Time of Cholera
7.The Meditations-Marcus Aurelius
8.On Genealogy of Morals-Nietzsche
9.Cat's Cradle
10.Absurdistan
11.Ethan Frome
12.Master and the Marguerita
13.A Confederate General from Big Sur
14.Spanish Grammars- oh yeah
15.The Reivers
-You're getting the picture
Movies! Peliculas!
1.Anything by the greatest film-making genius of all time, Woody Allen.
2.Cohen Brothers
3.Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine).
4.There Will Be Blood
5.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (forget the Jonny Depp version because Gene Wilder was the greatest tour guide in the history of the galaxy).
6.The Peanut Butter Solution-if you've seen this, we are friend by default.
Music! Musica!
1.Bob Dylan- Never will I find anyone better.
2.Steve Earle
3.Common
4.Robert Johnson
5.Howlin' Wolf
6.Greg Brown
7.Hank Williams
8.White Stripes
9.Neutral Milk Hotel
10.Okkervil River
11.Rolling Stones
12.Silver Jews
13.Pavement
14.Townes Van Zandt
15.Wilco/Uncle Tupelo
16.Victor Jara
17.Silvo Rodriguez
18.Mercedes Sosa
19.George Brassens
20. Cafe Tacuba
21. Jarabe de Palo
22. Joaquin Sabina

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I type this only to fill in every blank:

Hearing the greatest singer/accordionist playing on the pedestrian only street of Oaxaca, Mexico, who was a ten year old girl who could be Howlin Wolf if she wanted. Drinking raw milk given to me after I stopped at a house to ask directions while hiking in Ecuador, eating a duck heart and realizing that it is the noblest of all beasts and finally getting a starter of sourdough bread to bubble and gurgle in all of its lacto-fermentational beauty, complexity and glory.
These are in no way amazing to anyone else.

No se. Posiblemente el lago de pyramid. Esta cerca de Reno. Es en el desierto. El agua es muy claro, pero no es frio. Nunca turistas visitan esto lago, pero es tan bonito. Puedes nadar, pescar. Hay piedras grandas y muchos pajaros. Me encanta correr a la playa y salter en el lago. Demasiado diviertido! Es el mejor cosa en Nevada. No es Las Vegas. No es Reno. No es Lago de Tahoe. El mejor cosa de Nevada es lago de pyramid! Visite esto lago ahora mismo!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
1.Cooking
2.Baking
3.Guitar
4.Ukulele (and other instruments)
5.Book talk
Learn:
1.All the above
2.Gardening/farming
3.Construction of anything
4.Philosophy
5.Tell me jokes!

Ensenar:

1.Cocinar
2.Guitara
3.Ukelele
4.Íngles

Aprender:

1.Espanol
2.Buenos libros
3.Historia
4.profesiones buenos
5.cocinar
6.Muchas cosas sobre Ecuador.
7.Aprender musica folklorico de otros paises!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Scotland, Spain, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, France, Mexico, United States, Wales