**Walking across the country in support of at-risk youth in Chicago**

I'm a writer and competitive eater with success in teaching my father how to use the internet. I love music, ethnic foods, exotic culture, books, Pablo Escobar documentaries, and cheesecake.

Through high school and college I saved all of the money I earned as a salesman to complete my journalism degree in Sydney Australia. That year I wrote my first book, learned to use a camera, and how to climb mountains in the Himalayas.

After college I traveled solo all over Europe, the Middle East, and South America mountaineering. I Also had the opportunity to herd sheep in Austria for 8 months.

Currently I branded a campaign called 7 Million Strides to help some of the kids affected by the ongoing and oft publicized gang violence in my hometown Chicago. On my website www.sevenmillionstrides.com, you can find more info about myself and campaign.

As a host If you offer a meal that is amazing I’ll eat anything you make. Spicy, not spicy. Vegan or McDonald’s. Doesn’t matter.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Risk the unusual or settle for the ordinary

兴趣

• literature
• mountaineering
• sports

音乐、电影和书籍

Sublime, Incubus, Radiohead, Ben Harper, Tom Petty, Band of Horses, Andrea Bocelli, Pink Floyd, Ryan Adams, slightly Stupid, Greg Isakov

Casino, My Cousin Vinny, Rounders, Hoffa, Chinatown, City by the Sea, Money Talks, Cast Away, Flight, Training Day, The Bodyguard, Stepbrothers, Old School

Logs from the Sea of Cortez, Alchemist, Choke, Into Thin Air , Walden Pond

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Staying alive this long

教，学，和分享

Language, Remote backpacking and adventure, mountaineering, literature, sales, fishing knots, corporate business, non profit management, nutrition, bad jokes

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Stories, advice, friendship, socializing, manual labor, a meal, bad jokes

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States