CURRENT MISSION

See the world and change it, one person at a time.

ABOUT ME

I am a really easy going guy. Im rarely serious and always sarcastic. I believe that everything is connected, and so the relationships I have with friends and family are sacred to me. I am extrememly outgoing... so I talk to everyone everywhere simply for the sake of making people smile. It's fun to have fun!

PHILOSOPHY

Don't procrastinate - Life has too many opportunities to sit around and waste them. Meet new people. Ask for what you want. Travel, sail, and sun, but never forget about home. Work hard only if you get to play harder. You can never overdress. Make jokes at inappropriate times. Don't worry about what you can't change. Never stop learning. Seek ways to make yourself better. Never give up and the glass will just keep getting fuller.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is fantastic! I have serious wanderlust and this is the absolute best way to get a local perspective and emersed into the culture. You fly into a city where you don't know a soul, and greeted by a stranger, are adopted into a new group of friends. It is something magical.

Interests

I say that anything worth doing is worth doing twice! So I love creating new traditions - ultimate frisbee and bar trivia sundays, mimosa brunch, the summer pseudosport olympics, the jump-the-gun turkey run...
Any new experience can teach you something, so I am the type to try almost anything.

• culture
• books
• running
• flying
• trivia
• traveling
• sailing
• olympics

Music, Movies, and Books

Life would be boring without music! I love it all! My personality is derived from movie quotes... I can't remember calculus on my life, but could quote movies and song lyrics like it was my dayjob.
I am a voracious reader. I don't want to know how much I've contributed to Amazon in book sales, but have about 5 on deck right now. Any book that can introduce you to a new idea or captivate you enough to lose yourself in the story is worth reading. There's not enough time to know everything, but im trying!

Teach, Learn, Share

I only hope to teach as much as I learn from the people I meet...

Quotes that Stuck:
"Only the curious have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all." - Alastair Reid

"...in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future."
- Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp

"I want with to you what spring does with the cherry trees" - Pablo Neruda

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." -John Milton

"The world makes up for all of its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental."
- Thomas Huxley

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

"Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die to get there." - unknown

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what heartbreak is happening."
-Sue Monk Kidd

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steve Biko

"He who chooses his own path needs no map"
- Queen Kristina of Sweden

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes..."
- Marcel Proust

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly." - Barbara J. Winter

"May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you."
- Edward Abbey

"A man's memory is not a summation, it is a chaos of vague possibilities." - Jorge Luis Borges

"Cover the Earth, before it covers you." -anonymous

"The knack of learning how to fly is to learn how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." ~ Douglas Adams

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G. K. Chesterton

“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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