CURRENT MISSION

Live life

ABOUT ME

I am an American expat in Taiwan, and I teach kindergarten and elementary school. I am a burner (Burning Man) and I live in a purple house on a beautiful mountain 5 minutes outside of Jhubei City. I enjoy art, music, serious adventure sports, nature, riding motorcycle, eating unusual foods, and good conversation. I am down for a good party, but I don't drink very much anymore. I also spent 7 years cooking fine dining, and I enjoy cooking for people.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy what you can and grow from what challenges you face.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

If you want to crash on my couch, you will certainly realize that Taiwan is a tropical island. Its beautiful here, and massively different from the dense urban areas. If you stay for a while and show an inclination to the arts I may ask you to paint something on the wall in the kitchen, its a community painting area.

I will probably feed you, I like having excuses to cook.

If you have any kind of overwhelming fear of spiders/snakes/assorted creepy crawlies,this is probably not a good place to crash.

I will also be getting a second motorcycle soon, and the rules will be:
1. If you can make it down my driveway and back up to the house, you may borrow it.
2. If you wreck, you pay for damages.
3. No drunk driving.
4. If you get drunk and abandon/lose my vehicle, I will report it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In college I lived in a party house that had 13 couches and 3 hammocks. When we had parties, people crashed everywhere so there would be no drunk driving. Several years of this, and we had no real problems.

Interests

Travel, backpacking, paragliding, snorkeling, hiking, photography, food, art, Burning Man, festivals, climbing, riding motorcycles, and many various sciences

• dogs
• arts
• photography
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• fine dining
• partying
• drinking
• motorcycles
• traveling
• painting
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• snorkeling
• sports
• rock climbing
• paragliding
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Various

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Camped across America's National Parks, State Parks, etc for 3 months. Started out with $700, 2 months worth of food, a buddy, his dog, and a 93 ford escort station wagon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belgium, England, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Taiwan, Thailand, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Taiwan, United States