CURRENT MISSION

Be at peace, take pictures, sometimes drink coffee.

ABOUT ME

I like to travel, learn, have fun, smile and laugh. I like to meet new people and explore. I like to make music. The older I get the less a traditional American lifestyle/trajectory (career, family, house, retirement) interests me.

Message me if you want to meet up and get a coffee or do whatever!

Here are some links to my photo work and blogs:
http://briangooding.com/ - professional site
https://www.instagram.com/briandgooding/ - instagram
www.inaturalist.org/people/briang - iNaturalist

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy life, be respectful.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed a few times and attended a couchsurfing dinner but have not yet hosted. I try to tell people about the couchsurfing movement and spread goodwill when I can.

Interests

I like music, insects and photography. I have been playing guitar for years and enjoy playing rock, blues, indie/alternative music. I collect dragonflies (Odonata) and robberflies (Asilidae) and have assembled a museum with a few hundred dragonfly specimens.

I like to take ambient, candid/documentary and macro photographs. I really like specialty coffee and third wave coffee shops, all the different processes involved in coffee. I want to work on a coffee farm one day.

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: I don't really watch many movies.

music: Alt-J, Beirut, Blind Melon, Built to Spill, Cursive, Das Racist, Elliott Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Frightened Rabbit, Glassjaw, Grouplove, Harvey Danger, The Hold Steady, Los Campesinos!, Mates of State, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Third Eye Blind

books: The Giver, Steppenwolf, Narziss and Goldmund, The Glass Bead Game, An Unquiet Mind, Touched With Fire

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Motorbike around in mountains of central Taiwan.

Lived in Hangzhou, China for six months, caught some badass dragonflies (Acisoma panorpoides, Trithemis aurora).

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to use your camera.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Play guitar with/for you. Teach you about photography, insects, WordPress/web stuff. Lots of travel stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Taiwan, United States

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