CURRENT MISSION

Get out and enjoy good places with good people and good beer.

ABOUT ME

Moved to Columbus in the last year for a job (I work at a museum in town). Getting to know the city and some good places for a beer.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat people well and they'll do the same for you. They usually don't though, so keep that in mind, too.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

First CS experience was in Antwerp with the incomparable Erik. Even though I spell my name with a "C," he was gracious enough to put me up for a few nights, lend me a bike, and show me some of Antwerp's hidden gems (home stadium of the Royal Antwerp Eagles Baseball Team, for example).

Next, I spent some time with Tim in Amsterdam. He was busy with studies, but still found time to take me to some cool spots in the city and meet some of his friends (also CSers). When he wasn't around, he was nice enough to let me use a rail pass to get from his place to the city.

That's about it for my CS experience, but even after only two stints of surfing, I realized that you can trust people. Don't pay attention to the lousy, fear-mongering garbage you see and hear on the news/TV/your life--get out there and talk to your fellow people. They're actually pretty cool.

Interests

Soccer, tennis, hiking, disc golf, camping, drums, trivia, listening to music, cooking, craft beer, Steelers football, Pirates baseball, Penguins hockey, cities, museums, history, anthropology, art history, whatever I'm doing now...

• arts
• cooking
• beer
• news
• trivia
• tv
• music
• drums
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• baseball
• soccer
• hockey
• tennis
• golf
• anthropology
• art history
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Tommy Boy, Wayne's World, Caddyshack, Spinal Tap, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Silence of the Lambs, Half Baked, Goodfellas, The Departed, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds. Not a movie, but Arrested Development's pretty great.

Music: Grateful Dead, Phish, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Band, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Bill Monroe, John Hartford, Flaming Lips, Frank Zappa, Ween, Cream, David Bowie, Allman Brothers Band, Band of Horses, My Morning Jacket, Primus, Les Claypool, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Railroad Earth, Neil Young, Old and in the Way, Radiohead, Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, Arcade Fire and lots more...

Books: Walden, Black Like Me, Rituals of War--The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia, The Gift, 1984, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Wild Things Are, Rosie and the Rustlers, atlases.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watched the moon rise over the mountains.

Teach, Learn, Share

Hunger is the best sauce.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States