Hi, I'm Jared Godar. (I used to get a TON of requests in Nashville and have my name here to see who read my profile before requesting a place to stay.)

Back in Texas after over a decade in Nashville.

I am a freelance medical writer and editor, so I work from home and my schedule is pretty flexible. When I'm not doing that, I also write for a music publication (Fighting the Nashville Blues).

I was a non-commissioned officer in the Army for six years.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've surfed around the Southeast US for Rugby trips and have hosted folks from all over the world. I've also surfed in Central America, Australia, and Sweden.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met nothing but wonderful people through this site.

Interests

I enjoy live music, cooking, brewing beer, rugby, dancing, travel, SCUBA, poker, camping, hiking, fishing, canoeing, reading, photography, playing saxophone, trying to lean the guitar (and remember the piano), and trying new things.

• writing
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• beer
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• homebrewing
• poker
• music
• live music
• guitar
• piano
• fishing
• hiking
• canoeing
• camping
• scuba diving
• rugby
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Good Will Hunting, Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, Boondock Saints, Rounders, Royal Tenenbaums, Jackie Brown, Happy Gilmore, Clerks, Chasing Amy, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Blazing Saddles, Brief History of the World, American History X, Animal House

MUSIC: Ray LaMontagne, Tom Waits, Amos Lee, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, Counting Crows, Cowboy Mouth, Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, Rufus Wainwright, The Greencards, Amy LaVere, Justin Towns Earl; Willie Nelson, Cory Morrow, Jerrry Jeff Walker, Robert Earl Keen, Jason Boland, Bruce Robison, Reckless Kelly, The Greencards; Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Percy Grainger

BOOKS: Kahlil Gibran, David Foster Wallace, Mark Twain , J. Frank Dobie, Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen Ambrose, Edmund Morris

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Freediving with a wild whale shark in Honduras.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to make your own beer and a couple good dishes to cook.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Happy to cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Kosovo, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

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