CURRENT MISSION

Live truly in close connection with Nature

ABOUT ME

I live primarily in Santa Cruz during the school year, and in Imperial Beach, San Diego county, CA working as an Ocean lifeguard there. I value meaningful connections with people, and a deep connection with my bioregion, and everything in between. I like to play and share music (guitar and banjo primarily, also didgereedoo). I wish to live and work outdoors, ideally in a wilderness setting, with a strong interest in co-mentoring Outdoor Education and wilderness guiding/skills development.

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life with a duty to truly live it, indebted to the people and forces that have brought me thus far in life. This period of my life I wish to travel and experience far off lands, lifestyles, to gather their stories and bring them back to the Village(where/what-ever that may look like in the future).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to this site, but have hosted strangers at my home in both San Diego and Santa Cruz, and been hosted in various towns in California in between. So I still have contributed to the give-and-take of hospitality and compassion on the island of a globe swirling in the Milky Way Galaxy!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Been hosted through friend networks when visiting Santa Cruz/area.

Interests

wilderness skills, backpacking, Tracking, surfing, swimming,biking, playing guitar and banjo. Telling stories.

• education
• working out
• gardening
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• swimming
• teaching
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Walden; prose and poetry of Gary Snyder (especially "A Place In Space"); The Education of Little Tree; Wendell Berry (author/poet/speaker); Tom Brown, Jr. (author/wilderness skills mentor/Coyote guide);
Movies - Waking Life; What the Bleep Do We Know?; Collapse; The Departed

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

three month backpacking in Patagonian Andes with the Sierra Institute outdoor education program in Winter 2010.

Teach, Learn, Share

Share - life lessons/experience
teach/learn share wilderness skills, Tracking stories.
learn/share organic home gardening
Teach/Share enironmental issues of ocean/climate; learn about local environmental issues, conflicts wherever I travel to bring these Stories back.

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