Hello! Couchsurfing really changed my life when I was cycling across many different countries in my 20's and found generous people around the world who invited me into their homes, their lives, and their communities. I'm now a bit older, married, and traveling a bit less, but hopeful I can provide some similar experiences for travelers out there. I especially want people of color and LGBTQ folks to know they are welcome in this house.

I love the outdoors, especially hiking, cycling, long distance backpacking and bikepacking trips. If you're on a big bike tour, you are especially encouraged to stop by.

PHILOSOPHY

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles across the stars..." -Jack Kerouac, On The Road

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It started by hosting a few people at my old apartment in Madison. Then while riding my bike across Europe in the summer of 2005 I stayed with a handful of different hosts, all of them awesome people and now good friends. Since then I have hosted a handful guests while living in Paris and Madrid. Then I continued as a couchsurfer during a stint in Latin America. Couchsurfing has lead to lifelong friendships all over the world.

Interests

The New York Times, snowboarding, photography, travel writing, international relations, indie rock, hip hop, mountain biking, traveling, cooking with friends, good espresso in the morning and beer at night, fresh air, passionate people.

• arts
• writing
• photography
• beauty
• cooking
• beer
• traveling
• cycling
• snowboarding
• international relations

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Gadjo Dillo, Amores Perros, The Constant Gardener, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, City of God, Cool Hand Luke, Rushmore, Underground, The Realms of the Unreal, Waking Life, No Man's Land, Breaking Away, Crash, Dead Man, The 400 Blows.

Books: William Blake's poetry, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Paul Theroux, Micheal Chabon , Paul Auster, Joseph Heller, Tom Robbins, all Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Joe Sacco (illustrated history), Dave Eggers, Robert D. Kaplan, Ivo Andric, too many to list.

Music: Beirut, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Feist, Iron and Wine, Goran Bregovic, Kings of Leon, Explosions in the Sky, Desaparecidos, Justice, Black Keys, Two Gallants, Bloc Party, Go! Team, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Stars, Reggaeton, The Clash, The Cure, Madvillian, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Dylan, Pinback, Jorge Ben, Bebel Gilberto, 'trane, Mingus, Fela, Pavement, A Tribe Called Quest, Pixies, Cursive, ben lee, bluegrass, just to get started.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did a bike tour across Europe in 2005, I mountain biked the Colorado Trail in 2019, and my wife and I hiked the John Muir Trail in 2020.

Teach, Learn, Share

Urbanism, Snowboarding, Cycling

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Philippines, Spain, United States

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