CURRENT MISSION

Whirled Peas

ABOUT ME

I surf, I read, I converse, and sometimes I take pictures.

PHILOSOPHY

Happy existentialist.

Also I've always liked this quote by Bertrand Russell: Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I relied on the kindness of other couch surfers while during my drive cross country to move out here, CSed all around Iceland, and am finally hosting people when I can!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I once saw a guy surf a door. Never saw someone surf a couch, but I'd say it'd be a sight.

Interests

surfing, tea drinking, procrastination, reading, playing the ukulele, 1960's, Van Gogh, philosophy, politics.

• culture
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Per Petterson, Everything is Illuminated, The Poor Mouth, Salinger, Hemingway, Lewis Carroll, Walden, On the Road/Big Sur, The Essential Rumi, Bobby Frost, Vincent Van Gogh's Letters to Theo, everything by Halldor Laxness.

Music: Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, Clancy Brothers, Deer Tick, Elliot Smith, FM Belfast, Grateful Dead, Handel, Iron and Wine, Jimmy Buffett, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Mum, Nick Drake, OX, Pink Floyd, Queen, Ray Lamontagne, Sigur Ros, Toots and the Maytals, U2 (not really), Van Morrison, The Wolfe Tones, Yusuf Islam, The Zombies

Movies: Endless Summer, Sprout, Big Lebowski, I <3 Huckabees, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Casablanca, Rear Window, Heima, Maiden Trip

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I swam in a geothermally heated cave pool in an active fault line in Iceland. It was awesome!

Teach, Learn, Share

A few years ago I was living in NYC working for at the British Consulate. Sounds like a dream life except, I was miserable. So I did something about it.

I got rid of everything and hopped on a plane bound for Nepal.

19 countries later, I'm now in Australia, living across the street literally across the street from the ocean in Dee Why. I spend my weekdays offering software developers jobs and my weekends hanging out around the beach learnign the intricacies of Knifey-Spooney, Australia's national sport.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I've got a coffee mug for drinkin' and a futon for sleepin'.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States

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