CURRENT MISSION

To see the world and meet the people that surround me.

ABOUT ME

I'm an easy going laid back person, as you can see I did grow up in Cali. I like people who understand sarcasm, like to let loose, and are open minded not judgmental. Also those who haven't forgotten how important it is to never loose your inner child. I also admire people who enjoy whiskey, beer, and gin:)

Oh and I've just got back a couple months ago from traveling for 7 months in Eastern Europe and Asia.

PHILOSOPHY

Ever since I read this I knew this was what I'd shape my journey through life around, shit I even wrote an essay on it in high school.

Security: by Hunter S. Thompson
"Security ... What does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it another word for rut?

Let us visualize the secure man; and by this term, I mean a man who has settled for financial arid personal security for his goal in life. In general, he is a man who has pushed ambition and initiative aside and settled down, so to speak, in a boring, but safe and comfortable rut for the rest of his life. His future is but an extension of his present, and he accepts it as such with a complacent shrug of his shoulders. His ideas and ideals are those of society in general and he is accepted as a respectable, but average and prosaic man. But is he a man? has he any self-respect or pride in himself? How could he, when he has risked nothing and gained nothing? What does he think when he sees his youthful dreams of adventure, accomplishment, travel and romance buried under the cloak of conformity? How does he feel when he realizes that be has barely tasted the meal of life; when he sees the prison he has made for himself in pursuit of the almighty dollar? If he thinks this is all well and good, fine, but think of the tragedy of a man who has sacrificed his freedom on the altar of security, and wishes he could turn back the hands of time. A man is to be pitied who lacked the courage to accept the challenge of freedom and depart from the cushion of security and see life as it is instead of living it second-hand. Life his by-passed this man and he has watched from a secure place, afraid to seek anything better What has he done except to sit and wait for the tomorrow which never comes?

Turn back the pages of history and see the men who have shaped the destiny of the world. Security was never theirs, but they lived rather than existed. Where would the world he if all men had sought security and not taken risks or gambled with their lives on the chance that, if they won, life would be different and richer? It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life is drudgery, that the ambitions of youth must he laid aside for a life which is but a painful wait for death. These are the ones who squeeze what excitement they can from life out of the imaginations and experiences of others through books and movies. These are the insignificant and forgotten men who preach conformity because it is all they know. These are the men who dream at night of what could have been, but who wake at dawn to take their places at the now- familiar rut and to merely exist through another day. For them, the romance of life is long dead and they are forced to go through the years on a treadmill, cursing their existence, yet afraid to die because of the unknown which faces them after death. They lacked the only true courage: the kind which enables men to face the unknown regardless of the consequences.

As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed with a couple hosts as well as met up for drinks, its been an awesome experience!

Interests

Pigs, dogs, bubbles, nature

• dogs
• books
• beer
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• hunting
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

PUNK, ska, reggae, metal, rap, rock, hip hop, oldies little bit errrrthang

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Hungary, India, Macedonia, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States