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Berkeley, California, United States
@GORILLATRAVELER
Member since 2011
CURRENT MISSION Live it up because this ain't a rehearsal ABOUT ME Just living in the San Francisco area. Traveling bug hasn’t been eradicated quite yet. I enjoy hanging with friends, sports, games, podcasts, science, literature... I'm a strange blend of easy-going and judgmental; intellectual and silly; sensitive and politically incorrect. Traveling a good percentage of the globe, I've learned a lot about cultural idiosyncracies and general patterns of human behavior. Nature trips are always compelling, so my journeys to Eastern Africa, Southern Africa (camping safari), the Galapagos, and to the jungles of Thailand, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Belize and Peru have all been spectacular adventures. I've also enjoyed all of my summer canoe trips in the remote far northern reaches of Alaska and the Yukon.
Interested in Animals
Interested in Bars
Fluent in English
Learning Italian
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Hosting, meeting up with travelers
Music, Movies, and Books
Dylan Authors--Sam Harris, Dawkins, Pinker, Nabokov, Roth, McCarthy, E.O. Wilson, Updike, Millard, Dostoevsky Coen bros, kurasawa, Hitchcock, Herzog films Game of Thrones, True Detective, Fawlty Towers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat, Breaking Bad, Silicon Valley, Real Time Jeopardy
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Went on a 6-week camping safari in Southern Africa Chased by a black bear in the woods of Vermont Canoed 1000 miles of the Yukon river Snorkeled in Thailand, Belize, Nevis/St Kitts, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Saw gorillas and tracked chimps in the wild (in Uganda) Bitten by a young panda in China
My Interests
Science, literature, travel, bowling, evolutionary biology/psychology, animals, hiking, writing, racquet sports, road trips. Eating at all of the good bay area restaurants, canoeing, gambling, Scrabble, Boggle. Going out on the town for a drink.
