IG @kennethwestervelt

CURRENT MISSION

I'm ready to spread my wings and see what hotels won't show.

ABOUT ME

My place? A modest 3/1.5 house close to a local hospital. I rent out the spare bedrooms to budget for travel and retirement. It's got a compost bin, a shed for building things, and tons of food storage.

Me? I like biking, playing acoustic music, banter, coffee (single origin especially), highfalutin' cider, the Internet, and gardening. I can talk about some local politics, but I actively avoid talking national and world politics.

PHILOSOPHY

I want to be retired when I grow up, and I'm saving more than a fifth of my paycheck to get there. Everything else is just part of the journey.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used to go to the meetups in Denver. Really been slacking off on that since I picked up a job that required 55+ hours a week during construction season.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted for six months while living in Miami Beach back in 2008-2009. *Great* experience! Looking forward to meeting other people into the idea again. Israel, Australia, China, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and India all graced my apartment: an experience that can probably never be duplicated.

Interests

Songwriting, coffee (American, Cuban, and Italian), comics, cooking, conversation about...well, what isn't there? Getting America greener (gardening, composting, vermiculture), personal finance. Relating my former tutoring background to my current utility location job.

Things that CouchSurfers have gotten me interested in: card games, NGOs, Linux, stock market regulations, burlesque dancing, footvolley...

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Streaming the internet is my jam these days. Lots of chill techno, remixes, synthwave, and jazz.

Movies: Don't watch them much anymore. The framerate change on TV from 24fps to 60fps in recent years doesn't help.

Books: I read more articles than books these days. Most of my reading comes from hanging out on various forums and Discord chat rooms.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Two weeks after graduating high school, I enlisted in the Air Force. I think that's kinda hardcore. Not Marines hardcore, but kinda hardcore.

I've also seen the sun rise over Asheville, NC during Christmas break. Sleeping on the Blue Ridge Trail is pretty awesome. Waking up to see sun rays cut through the winter fog is very awesome.

Spent New Years' Day 2008 bicycling in the rain shirtless in South Beach, Florida. Not even a goosebump.

Somehow, I survived living in a hostel near downtown Denver for close to 3 years. I've met world travellers and local ne'er-do-wells. Seemed like every two months, there would be someone having a mental breakdown which required police. I've been working at cultivating a place worth living in ever since.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm pretty intuitive when it comes to flavors. I can show you a couple good combinations for recipes, if you're not the cooking kind. Same with mixing drinks.

Music is a language for me. There's lot of things to decode in a series and melding of sounds. I write songs and can teach you what to listen for. If you want to learn to play a few things on either the guitar or keyboard, I can help you there. Are you a professional musician? I have a lot to learn from you.

Computers? I use 'em. I've also learned a good deal on how to find open source (legally free) programs for productive uses. You can learn what I know too.

I gotta learn how to dance and speak more languages. I'm really spoiled being raised on the lingua franca, and I know this. I've been humbled seeing all the bilinguals and trilinguals in south Florida.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Canada

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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