I'm a simple person who loves to learn and explore. When I travel, I pack light, expect the unexpected and seek adventure. I'll try anything once and I really love to meet new people!

Interests

I love animals of all kinds, beautiful nature, old cities, interesting people, fresh food and Bob Dylan. In my free time I like to hike, read, paint, watch movies, scuba dive, snowboard and listen to music... and I'm training for a marathon right now. I like to read biographies, but I also read tons of magazines. I love music and art. I'm always trying to expand my horizons, gain new perspective, and leave my comfort zone! I approach everything with an open mind and try to learn from whom ever will teach me.

• animals
• arts
• dining
• cooking
• marathon
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• music
• hiking
• scuba diving
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies-
American Beauty, Milk, The Black Power Mixtape, The Big Lebowski, I'm Not There, Lost in Translation, The Darjeeling Limited.

TV-
The Office, Broad City, Portlandia, Iconoclasts, Looking, Girls.

Music-
Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Arcade Fire, Mac Demarco, The War On Drugs, David Bowie, Caribou, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Sigur Rós, Mac Demarco, Foxygen, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and lots more.

Books-
Allen Ginsberg, Jon Krakauer, David Foster Wallace, Douglas Adams, Walt Whitman, William Burroughs, Carl Sagan, Ken Kesey, biographies, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

... gone scuba diving in complete darkness near an island off the coast of San Diego, seeing the mass migration of squid and other deep sea animals to the surface as well as being surrounded by the most beautiful bioluminescent plankton.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, pictures, good conversation... maybe some new music, some cooking, and a trinket from back home. I'm no world-class chef, but I can make a few dishes pretty decently and I'd love to share them!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States