CURRENT MISSION

To be good

ABOUT ME

Positive, considerate, sometimes overenthusiastic. Frequent daydreamer grounded by a no-nonsense, loving wife.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep your aim high and your expectations low.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I initially joined couchsurfing in 2006 in order to venture around East Asia while my kids were young (we lived in Japan at the time). Instead, I hosted a lot of people coming through Tokyo, and really enjoyed meeting fellow travelers, since I've lived overseas since 1997.

As work grew busier and my kids grew older, I sort of dropped out of Couchsurfing. Then we left Japan to start slow-traveling full time. That was 2013.

We've been based in Valencia, Spain since 2015.

Interests

New places, new people, new ideas. Music (live & recorded), photography, emerging technology, BBQs & picnics, playtime time with my kids. Not necessarily in that order.

• photography
• festivals
• technology
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Miles Davis, King Tubby, James Brown, Guided By Voices, Los Zafiros, Grimes, D'Angelo, Tycho, David Bowie, Frank Ocean, The Beta Band, Manu Chau, Ken Boothe, The Dirtbombs

From 2006 when I opened this account:
My Nano this week: Chopin, Dr. Octagon, The Octopus Project, Art Pepper, EPMD, Curve, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Blue Hearts, Takagi Masakatsu

Podcasts: Radiolab, On the Media, All Songs Considered, This American Life, XLR8R, Diplo's Mad Decent Radio, Polypunk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Had thousands of bottle rockets fired directly at me at the Yen Shue festival in Taiwan

Jumped off waterfalls in Japan and Spain (canyoning)

Left my job and started traveling full-time with my family since 2013

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Israel, Laos, Mexico, Palestine, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Malaysia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United States