CURRENT MISSION

To explore this amazing planet, meet wonderful people, and play great music!

ABOUT ME

Traveling the world fills me with such an incredible sense of joy and hope. I am drawn to positive people and I gotta say it's good to be alive! I am consistently amazed at the incredible potential for human beings. Every breath is another chance to say hello and every step is the beginning of a new journey. If you play music, great let's jam! If not, please show me something new! It's always cool to discover a new band/artist.

PHILOSOPHY

What the mind doesn't know the heart fills in. I don't know what that means but it's beautiful... which is exactly what it means.

Don't be complacent. Now is the moment of influence. Right now you can do anything, so do something!

This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching tv. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analysing, all emotions are beautiful. Life is simpler than you think. Open your mind, heart, and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you meet what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them. TRAVEL OFTEN. Getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them. Start creating. Life is short. Live your dream and share your passion.

Here's a poem I've been working on.

In a turning like a burning came a churning out of everything stirring in what had become before. Tumbling and fumbling and stumbling into bumbling and rumbling along. Whirling it and swirling it and twirling it and over turning it and burning it again. I shared this whirling dervish swinging en route to the nations in Sol star with this scissored, blizzard, wizard visiting planets and secrets with him like an avatar. While meanwhile the turn style was spinning over him. He's bespeaking spells of kingdoms in the dark calling me to yield and kneel, knighting me in a field covered with armies and princesses. All were sighing, cannons shining, banners flying, no one dying. When he spoke to me he sang and his words really rang. There were grandfathers who danced through there living a longer time ago. A path set in time when no words like never ever met with words like surrender. Question everything but those loved words of a few. When I asked of him what shall I do to see the gods he only said the golden rod which grows inside of every twilight dream you dream while waiting for the odds is this sign from the man in the fire telling you the thing you desire is a cover that mirrors the riddle of everything secretly wished for in this world of which you are an inheritor.

Dream on you sons and daughters, dream on and be happy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love surfing and meeting new people. I haven't hosted yet as it's difficult when you live on a tiny air base in the middle of a German forest!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I think the great thing about this organization is that the people you surf/host with are friends that you just haven't met yet.

Interests

I'm interested in: music & books & travel & people & beer & batman & life & love & nature & pictures & boats & the ocean & the mountains & the desert & teaching & learning & art & movies & humor & shiny things & tiny things & shiny tiny things & games & bicycles & coffee & wine & martial arts & creativity & running & snowboarding & skydiving & scuba diving & singing & composing & saxophone & guitar & piano & new experiences!

• arts
• books
• singing
• festivals
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• running
• flying
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• piano
• blues
• surfing
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• martial arts
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Whoa there are too many to list!!!!!!!!!!

I believe that it is about the artist not the genre. If the artist is phenomenal, their product will be also.

Films: I love the Blues Brothers, Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Man from Earth, Inception, the original Starwars, Indiana Jones, Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan, Taken, Big, so so so many others.

Books: I have a rule, whatever I just read, the next book must be by a different author. That way I'm always expanding!!! Some that I've read lately: Zen and the Art of Archery, The Prophet, LOTR, The Game, The Dark River, The Elegant Universe, Twilight Eyes, The Book Thief, Life of Pi, Ender's Game, Snow Crash, Emergency, The Harry Potter series (guilty pleasure), A People's History of the United States, The Moral Animal, Shantaram.

Music: Snarky Puppy, Medesky Martin & Wood, CSN&Y, Weather Report, Rage Against the Machine, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Tower of Power, Dead Floyd, Joshua Redman, Soulive, The Grippe, Euforquestra, Nick Drake, Roy Hargrove, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, D'Angelo, Flogging Molly, Tool, Stravinsky, Trombone Shorty, Norah Jones, The Who, The Beatles, Dire Straits, Phish, Primus, Herbie Hancock, Mike Portnoy, A Perfect Circle, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Ninja Fitness, Jamiroquai, Allman Brothers, Jimmi Hendrix, Karl Denson, Tito Puente, Paul Desmond, Michael Brecker, Dave Weckl, Count Basie, Esperanza Spalding, Buena Vista Social Club, Billy Joel, Paquito D'Rivera, U2, Branford Marsalis, Parliament, Reel Big Fish, Lonnie Smith, Marcus Miller, Organissimo, Garaj Mahal, Dennis Chambers, Maceo Parker, Pat Metheny, Grant Green, The Brand New Heavies, Jazz Pistols, Kenny Garrett, Diana Krall, Family Groove Company, Addison Groove Project, Naturally 7, Victor Wooten, Mike Stern, 311, Adam Bodine Trio, Al Green, New Mastersounds, Thievery Corporation, Wayne Shorter, Keller Williams, Blues Traveler, Yellowjackets, Charles Mingus, Charlie Hunter, David Sanborn, Jason Mraz, G Love &the Special Sauce, Days of the New, Santana, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, J Dilla, Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Jaco Pastorius, Stanton Moore, Eminem, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, Necro, Animals as Leaders. SO SO SO SO SO Many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So many amazing travel experiences...

The Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain was INSANE!

Teach, Learn, Share

Music is a language and it is universal. I have played Blues & jazz in many different countries, it is amazing how people are so different yet so similar. Be kind to the people you meet for they are a reflection of yourself.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I like to travel with a saxophone (if possible) and play with local musicians wherever I go. If my host has time I like to go to a store, fill up there refrigerator with groceries, and learn/cook/eat a local meal!

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominica, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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