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Overview

  • 36 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German, Spanish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • Student of this life
  • Undergrad in Industrial Engineering @ Cal Poly San Luis O...
  • From Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Keep workin on my Bodhisattva Vows!

PHILOSOPHY

Live mindful, purposeful, and without effort. Live the middle way (Balance and Moderation). Do not search for it ... for it will not be found ... Stop looking and it will find you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Karneval Cologne 2006 CS Meeting, Stuttgart with two of the finest fellows ever to live, Budapest with 5 Great ladies
Bratislava with a well organized and generous couple, Vienna with 3 Fun Lovin ladies and 1 cool but slightly twisted dude

Interests

Live for the outdoors. Love people and adventure. Humanistic Buddhism and Philosophy. Listening to Music, Reading Books, Thinking and Learning and Living and Loving and most importantly ... Afternoon Naps

  • books
  • perfumes
  • politics
  • reading
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • buddhist
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Trainspotting, Magnolia, Donny Darco, City of Lost Children, City of God, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, Shawshank Redemption, The Boondock Saints... Music: Bob Marley, Iron and Wine, Bright Eyes, Atmosphere, Tool, Bloodhound Gang, Weezer, Wilco, Ben Kweller, Dispatch, Mason Jennings, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Andrew Bird, Johnny Cash, Catch-22 ...
Books: Dharma Bums, Moon Palace, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, Into Thin Air, The Story of B, The Tao of Pooh, 1984, Catch-22, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, Godless Morality...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Eel River @11000 CFS

Teach, Learn, Share

Hitchhiking, Couchsurfing with style and grace, Computer support, Politics and Philosophy

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

Old School Badges

  • 6 Vouches
  • Pioneer Badge
  • Vienna Collective

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