I work M-F for now

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"Forgot to say hello to my neighbor
Sometimes I question my own behavior"
-Mellencamp

Interests

• walking
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• camping
• history
• eating
• health
• airplanes
• b777
• the pope

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
Leon Russell - A Song for You
Chaka Kahn - Ain't nobody
Jefferson Starship - Miracles
Traffic - The Low Spark of hi heeled boys
Joy of Cooking - Too Late, but not Forgotten
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
CSN - Just a Song Before I Go
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Cat Stevens - Lady D’Arbanville
Joan Armatrading - Save Me
Joni Mitchell - Harry's house
Jose Feliciano-Light my Fire
Carol King - You've got a Friend
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Rodriguez - I'll Slip Away
Jackson Browne - My Opening Farewell
Karla Bonoff - Home
John Denver - the Eagle and the Hawk
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
Neil Young - Words
Elton John - Come Down in Time
David Lindley - Turning Point
Rickie Lee Jones - Prelude to Gravity
Melanie - brand new Key
The Doobie Bro. - Real Love
Joe Walsh- Ordinary Ave. Guy
George Harrison - What is Life
Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head
Joan Osborne - One of Us
John Mellencamp - Check it Out
Gordon Lightfoot - Edmund Fitzgerald
Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
Los Lobos - Tears of God
Lynard Skynyrd - Simple Man
Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough
Mississippi John Hurt - Talking Casey
Warren Zevon - the French inhaler
The Pointer Sisters - Automatic
Joe Jackson - Another World
Ice Cube - It was a Good Day
Iris DeMint - Let the Mystery be
Joe Crocker - Feelin Alright
Madonna - Borderline
Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man
Todd Rundgren - Hello it's Me
Selena - Como la Flor

Movies
1. Rudy
2. Harold and Maude
3. The Scarlet and the Black
4. Invincable
5. Stand and Deliver
6. The Dirty Dozen
7. Midway
8. The Agony and the Ecstasy
9. McFarland USA
10. Brother Sun Sister Moon
11. Song of Bernadette
12. Little miss Sunshine
13. Fargo
14. Touching the Void
15. 127 hrs
16. The Way Back
17. Tuskegee Airmen
18. Sully
19. Breakfast Club
20. Erin Brokovich
21. Selena
22. Gumball Rally
23. The Buddy Holly story
24. Amadeus
25. The Aviator
26. A Man for all Seasons
27. On Any Sunday
28. Endless Summer
29. TRACKS
30. Jesus of Nazareth
31. Midnite Express
32. Sounds of Music
33. Dirty Harry
34. The good-bad-ugly
35. Flash of genius
36. Lion
37. GREATER
38. Pretty in Pink
39. Falling Down
40. TUCKER
41. Blindside
42. Catch me if u can
43. Walkabout
44. We Are Marshall
45. Lean on Me
46. Searching for Sugar Man
47. Cinderella man
48. Stand by Me
49. Bugsy
50. Into the Wild
51. Becket
52. Running brave
53. Cool Runnings
54.
55. Capt. Phillips

“Courage is like a muscle, the more u use it
The stronger it gets”
Ruth Gordon

Books .........GK Chesterton
"In everything we do, there comes a point
where no one would do it, except for honor"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I’ve hosted 380 people
I’ve helped 40 CS get a couch w/others
I don’t own a car
I’ve cycled across India w/ a CSer girl
I wore pants one day in 2017.
I dropped out of high school.
I’ve paid for 3 college degrees.
I’ve kissed 3 bishops rings
I rode my bike off a cliff
I survived a massive blood clot in my lungs
I cycled across 800mi desert in Oz.
I’ve been hit 5 times by a car.
I’ve climbed 150ft. Trees
I caused a traffic jam when I was 4
I’ve never had a beer
I’ve never done drugs
I walked 39 miles in a day.
I did 400 pull ups on my 40th bday.
I rode my bike in the rain for 10hrs.
I’ve ridden a bicycle over 100,000 miles
I got lost in the slums of Mumbai
I’ve biked across USA 4 times.
I’ve stayed with 100 Couchsurfers.
I ran over a gangster waxing his lo rider.
I’ve been Q. by police 100 times.
I’ve never been arrested.
I moved from CA to TX.
I own 50 turtlenecks.
I got married when I was unemployed
I fell asleep on my first date.
I watched airplanes from 6am to 1am.
I fasted for 4 days.
I crashed on a bike 400 times
I won as many Tour de France as Lance Armstrong
I’ve been pulled over by the cops on my bike
In many countries.

Teach, Learn, Share

Do good - Avoid evil - Contemplate beauty - Seek silence -
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What I Can Share with Hosts

"Never forget who you are"
-Angelo Roncalli

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, England, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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