CURRENT MISSION

To make the world around me a better place.

ABOUT ME
First of all - I love to meet new people. The shared experience and exchange of thought, culture, and ideas are the most crucial ingredients for living.
Down to Earth, educated, well-read, artist and respectful guy. I'm from the midwest, grew up on a farm.
Now, I'm an architect in New York.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I enjoy meeting new people and sharing experiences!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Love meeting new people and creating a network of friends throughout the world.

Interests

Architecture
Urbanity
Art
Coffee
Craft beer
Traveling
Camping
Bicycling
Reading
Philosophy and Thought.

• arts
• architecture
• beer
• coffee
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Books | Deja Dead series by Kathy Reichs, anything Art and Architecturally related, Life and Death of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, etc.

Programs | Doctor Who, House, Friends, Sherlock

Music | The Strokes, The Beatles, Bastille, The XX, Vampire Weekend, punk to country

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Magical Sunsets of the Konza Prairie
Summer Solstice Sunset atop the Eiffel Tower
Ran and Swam in Switzerland (Splash and Dash in Lucern)
Lived in Paris, France for a Summer's month
Metropolis that I've been to LA, NYC, KC, STL, DFW, DEN, Paris, Berlin, Praque, Bern, among others

Still to go; Chicago, Barcelona, Moscow, Mexico City, Rome, Vancover, Boston. . .

Teach, Learn, Share

Art and Architecture, Artisan Coffees to Craft brewing, technology and why things are the way they are.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A pleathora of design and architectural knowledge.
A crash course in understanding behavioral psych, human movement, urban planning in history and contemporary planning, and of course urban gardening/aquaponics farming.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States