CURRENT MISSION
to meet as many amazing people as i can while i travel around the country/world.

ABOUT ME
former uptight restaurant/bar owner gone hippie dippy. pursuing my potential.
i'm a morning person (like farting mother fuckin' beams of sunshine, obnoxiously awake and chipper)
i'm a writer
i'm a vegetarian or more accurately, a conscious eater
i'm a hiker
i'm a Bicycle rider
i'm a graduate of Winthrop University (BA in English)
i'm a pilot (single engine land)
i'm honest and sincere to a fault
i laugh frequently and loudly :D
i am trans and identify as genderqueer--think 35-year-old boy that was socialized as a female

PHILOSOPHY

no whining.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hosting and surfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hosted some really swell german guys back in 2010. have been bouncing around from place to place since then and went on an epic adventure with my recently college graduated broham where we hitchhiked across Europe in the winter of 2014 and couchsrufed the entire 36 days. It was amazing.

Interests

exchanging ideas with people from all walks of life and writing about that

• writing
• vegan
• traveling
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

even cowgirls get the blues, serena, kerouac, everything wm faulkner, f scott fitzgerald short stories, dante's inferno even though it's a poem not a book technically, and alison bechdel (effing genius)
SEX AT DAWN by chris ryan and cacilda jetha is essential reading for life--give it to your parents

burn after reading and the darjeeling limited
boxing helena
hedwig and the angry inch might be my favorite of all time
mean girls is just hilarious
i appreciate classic flicks
anything almodovar
and david lynch blows my mind

mad men
Peaky blinders
Stranger things
GoT

grunge grass/indie (avett bros neko case fleet foxes type stuff) but really as far as music goes i like everything. music is just essential to life. and i really like goddamn guns n roses, the grateful dead, and neil fuckin young.
dusty springfield makes me feel some kinda WAY.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

got my pilot's license back in 2010 outta bozeman, mt
and
watching a buddy of mine get baptized in 2012 was pretty cool

I started a camp to teach wilderness survival+wilderness stewardship+social justice to LGBTQ youth in 2016

What I Can Share with Hosts

I hitchhiked from scotland to Russia in winter of 2014

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates

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