CURRENT MISSION

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

ABOUT ME

I love to travel and meet new people. I spent the last 2 years living and working in NYC. I quit my job in February 2010, sold all of my belongings and have condensed my entire life into a 35 pound backpack. I will be traveling for the next year and a half and look forward to meeting a lot of cool CS'ers along the way.

I love soccer and my favorite team is Liverpool. I also like drinking great beer. I'm heading through Europe on my way to South Africa for the World Cup.

My goals on this trip are to visit at least 5 continents, learn to surf, and become fluent in Spanish.

PHILOSOPHY

It's not the length of life but the depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

-All it takes is a little confidence.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. -Camus

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. – Jack Kerouac

All who wonder are not lost.. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just moved back to Texas and am living in downtown Dallas. I'm more than happy to show you around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am couch surfed with throughout the world on my year long RTW trip.

Interests

Wolf Shirts, Banyas, New York City Pizza, Stand-up Comedy, Buenos Aires, Learning Spanish, The Liverpool Reds, Exploring NYC, Traveling, College Sports, Rachel McAdams, Tailgating, Live Music, Road Trips, Good Beer, Free Concerts, Soccer, Tex-Mex, meeting new and interesting people

• concerts
• beer
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• live music
• backpacking
• sports
• soccer
• world cup
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Music is my favorite.
Bands I love: Arcade Fire, Girl Talk, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Neil Young, Beatles, The Hold Steady,, K'Naan, Biggie, Nas, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Manu Chao, Bajafondo Tango Club, MMJ, Neutral Milk Hotel, Phoenix, Radiohead, Spoon, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin and on and on...

Books: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Stranger, Kite Runner, Lonesome Dove, Slaughterhouse Five, No Country For Old Men, Tropic of Cancer, Russian Lit, Life of Pi, Jules Verne, The Devil in the White City

Movies: Slumdog Millionaire, The Sting, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Downfall, City of God, Network, Big Fish, Casablanca, The Last of the Mohicans, Superbad

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went to 8 World Cup games in South Africa
Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
Hiked the Annapurna circuit in Nepal
I've seen 4 of the new 7 wonders (although I think that list is bogus)

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm very proud to be from Texas and I recommend everybody visit at least once!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United States

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