CURRENT MISSION

To get to all seven continents

PHILOSOPHY

"The essence of pleasure and happiness is spontaneity"

"A frog that sits at the bottom of a well thinks that the whole sky is only as big as the lid of a pot"

"The journey is the goal"

Interests

Exploring new places, meeting new people, and having a laugh over a beer or some strong espresso

• perfumes
• beer
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
1984, The Beach, Shantaram, Lord of the Flies, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, The World Without Us, No Logo, The World According to Garp, Everything is Illuminated, Trainspotting, Angela's Ashes, Machete Season, High Fidelity, Of Mice and Men, A Long Way Down, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The End of Poverty, The Chrysallids, Freakonomics, Goodbye Lemon, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Schindler's List, Fight Club, What is the What, The Constant Gardener, The Road, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, First They Killed My Father, The Kite Runner, Middlesex, Superdad: A Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood, Choke, The Great Railway Bazaar

Movies:
Lost in Translation, Pieces of April, Crash, Elephant, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Ghost World, Dead Poets Society, Garden State, Half Nelson, Almost Famous, Across the Universe, Into the Wild, District 9, Little Miss Sunshine, Love Actually, Best in Show, The Darjeeling Limited, L'Auberge Espagnole, The Social Network, 28 Days Later, Up, American Beauty

Documentaries:
The Bridge, Born Into Brothels, The Garden, Taken For a Ride, The Lottery, Man on Wire, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Crime After Crime

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trekking among rice paddies and over mountains in Sa Pa, Vietnam; Watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat in Cambodia; Exploring the Bolevan Plateau and Wat Champasak by motorbike in southern Laos; Strolling around Edinburgh Castle on a frosty November morning

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Denmark