been on the road in one way or another for the better part of the last several years, got hooked on the nomadic and hitchhiking lifestyle, learning to be happy with less and appreciating the beauty and freedom of a simpler life.. while hopefully leaving the earth a little better than i found it.

Interests

misty mountains and rugged coastlines, camping, hitchhiking, hiking, biking, kayaking, snowboarding, windsurfing, hammocks, picnics, meditation, nice neighbors, community, chasing sunsets and full moon rises, old man pubs, juke joints, street food, people watching, refugee and migration issues, volunteerism, grassroots organisation, minimalism...

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: the beatles, bob dylan, joanna newsom, sigur ros, manu chao, alt-j, maverick sabre, coco rosie, matthew and the atlas, fionn regan, ray lamontagne, angus and julia stone, damien rice, beirut, lisa hannigan, laura marling, ben howard, the swell season, yann tiersen, chavela vargas, mercedes sosa, lhasa de sela, ray charles, jeff buckley, arcade fire, johnny cash, feist, al green, nina simone, otis redding, toots and the maytals, radiohead, rodrigo y gabriela, regina spektor, julieta venegas
MOVIES: singin' in the rain, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, mar adentro, baraka, before sunrise / sunset / midnight, a separation, boyhood, in bruges, once, almost famous, y tu mama tambien, goodbye lenin!, the dreamers, le grand voyage, the lives of others, the motorcycle diaries, into the wild, her, the science of sleep
BOOKS: siddhartha, the human comedy, the little prince, 1984, the diving bell and the butterfly, the old man and the sea, kerouac's on the road, mccarthy's the road, jack london tales, steinbeck

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

those which come when least expected:

-being involved with the relief efforts directly after hurricane katrina, on the floor of an evacuee shelter with 800+ residents of new orleans and working side-by-side with people from all walks of life... life-changing on so many levels, and a place i always find myself coming back to.

-finding a small volcano village during a paragliding trip in ecuador, and coming to live there while teaching in the school and helping on the farms. falling asleep every night to the rumblings of the volcano, like ocean waves.

-laying on the beach beneath a thousand shooting stars at the end of the earth, after walking 500 miles across spain to reach there.

-calling ireland home for a year while doing social work with the elderly, making deep and meaningful connections with lifelong friends old and young.

looking forward to what's next...

Teach, Learn, Share

"i beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer..."

(rainer maria rilke -- letters to a young poet)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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