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Overview

  • 77 references 55 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Japanese, Korean
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Teacher
  • University
  • From Louisville, Ky, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Spread Happiness

ABOUT ME

I love food and travelling and wine. I love cooking, drinking and meeting new people.

PHILOSOPHY

Make the world better than when you found it.

Spread Happiness

Be the change you want to see in the world

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Happy to meet up and show you a great place to eat or drink and talk about travelling, language, music or whatever. And when its available your welcome to crash at my place. Just make sure to mention the word "splax" and a couple reasons Why we are going to have an awesome time hanging out.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met a ton of couchsurfers simply through travelling. All of them were awesome. I have now hosted a lot and surfed a little and everyone I've met has been awesome after 3 years it is amazing that so many of the amazing people in my life I have met through this website!

Interests

Language, Yoga, Music, Running, Books, Cooking, Poetry, Traveling, Philosophy, Wine, Weightlifting, Whiskey (Especially Kentucky Bourbon), Skiing, Camping....

  • books
  • poetry
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • wine
  • yoga
  • running
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • camping
  • skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger than Fiction, Fight Club, Closer, What Dreams May Come

Books: Once a Runner, Shantaram, Born to Run, Gone with the Wind, A Moveable Feast,
Authors: Murakami, Vonnegut, Dumas, Coelho, Hemingway,

Music: Lots and Lots and Lots of Stuff =D

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

had a 2 hour kendo swordfight in the Middle of a thunderstorm on the roof of a Korean Skyscraper

Explored a Sunken Japanese Warship in the Philippines.

Kissed 20meters/60feet underwater in Thailand

Got lost in the bamboo forest and Orange gates of Fushimi Inari in Japan.

Found a hidden cave with buddha shrine on the korean coastline

learned to backflip at the blue hole in Vang Vien, Laos

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you simple acro yoga flows (see link below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zzJs-SUiHw&feature=BFa&list=PL0B49FDEC3FA9DEDC&lf=mh_lolz

How to learn 5,000 French words in under 5 minutes.

I am super excited to learn about other cultures.

I am happy to share, swap, and trade recipes and books.

And would LOVE to share my Yoga or Running practice.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Japan, Laos, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States

Old School Badges

  • 12 Vouches
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