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Overview

  • 24 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
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  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival
  • Bachelor's in business management
  • From La Crosse, WI
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To find new ways to suprise myself

ABOUT ME

I am currently a festival nomad, which means I travel around and work various festivals (mostly film festivals). I like having a good time, meeting new people, and having new experiences. I have realized that when I try new and unexpected things, I am able to learn things about myself and grow as a person.

PHILOSOPHY

"the core of man's spirit comes from new experiences"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had the chance to host a large amount of surfers at our house and have had a blast.

These are my surfing experiences so far
South Lake Tahoe, NV
Laramie, WY
Chicaco, IL
London,England
Garstang, England
Leeds, England
Preston, England
Glasgow, Scotland
Berlin, Germany
Krakow, Poland
Santorini, Greece
Mykonos, Greece
Paris, France
Breckenridge, CO
Denver, CO
Des Moines, IA

visited 12 states (5.33%)Create your own visited map of The World

Interests

Music, playing drums, hiking, backpacking, snowboarding,camping, drinking good beer, climbing,all things film related, photography, reading, learning, hanging out with good company

  • photography
  • festivals
  • film festivals
  • beer
  • drinking
  • boating
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • drums
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • camping
  • surfing
  • snowboarding
  • rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: anything by: Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, Sam Raimi, Luc Besson, and Christopher Nolan; The Fall, Up in the Air, Skateland, Into the Wild, Exit through the Gift Shop, the Lookout, 8 1/2, When you're strange, Religulous, Catfish, The Imposter, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The House I Live In,City of God, anything with Gary Oldman in it, etc

Music: Black Keys, Cut Copy, Portugal the man, Gang of Four, Mars Volta, the Doors, Chronic Future, Sharon Jones & the dap-kings, Pink Floyd, The Replacements, Lee Fields and the Expressions,New Order, Foals, etc

Books: The Things They Carried, Vagabonding (this book is basically my bible when I'm traveling), Marco Polo Didn't Go There, The Stand, The Beach, Me Talk Pretty One Day, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

climbed the stairs to the crown of the statue of liberty, hiked on top of Mayan Ruins in Belize, watched a sunrise while sitting on a castle wall in Poland, rode a four-wheeler around the island of Santorini, Greece, lived on a canal-boat for a few days in northern England...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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