ABOUT ME

I don't even know. My friends would probably say i'm a decent person. Simple and sometimes quiet, but really funny when I want to be. Work hard, no frills.
Eccentric.
I'm originally from the U.S. I try to keep my location updated in case I have a couch available, but I'm not a settled person

Botany is my thing. Evolution enthralls me. Geology is absolutely fascinating. The evolution of form and function; stunning.

PHILOSOPHY

"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
Its orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
a sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day.
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
in a galaxy we call the 'milky way'"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I honestly believe that we have entered into an age in which the ability to communicate with, travel to, and meet people from across the world makes violence against other humans increasingly unlikely.
I think it also hinders the ability of government propaganda to corrupt the thinking of its citizenry.

Interests

gardening, fungi, making stuff, growing things, building objects. I have a beautiful wonderful collection of exotic plants at my family home, but since I never go there I never see them..which is a bit sad.

• wine
• gardening
• traveling
• socializing
• dumpster diving
• ecology
• geology
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

phew so much music in the world. I personally don't know how some people find so much or choose what to list. Florent Ghys

I've read all of Carl Sagan's books, and while the science is a bit dated, I still think they were amazing books to read. I read them during a formative period of my life and they gave me such a huge sense of perspective and fascination with the world and universe...

D'Arcy Thomas "On Growth and Form" just a really amazing book written in the era 1900's that, at the time, was theorizing some mathematic principles that underlie form in the natural world.

Geology books.
Really, anything that makes me occasionally stop, put the book down, look around and feel the epiphany that all of This has an incredibly ancient history, a fascinatingly unknown future, and a present that is so complex in its minutiae and grandeurs that the only significant thing one can say about it is "Wow"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There's great moments everywhere. simple things.

Its hard to answer because I wouldn't say I'm "done" I would say I'm "doing". Canoeing the Mackenzie river was pretty incredible.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love learning languages. I love growing plants, identifying plants . I mastered in agroecology, and arctic ecology; but all I really want to do is farm, or rather steward. I want to find a piece of terribly degraded land and make it lovely.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Lets dumpster dive some fruit and make wine. Lets collect some mycelium or spores and grow mushrooms. Lets go plant some vegetables. Lets go find some wild edibles. Lets make cookie tin banjos. Or lets just exchange smiles and remind ourselves that humans can be oddly and amazingly altruistic beings.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Nicaragua, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Norway, South Korea, United States