CURRENT MISSION

Have good stories

ABOUT ME

Underwater somersault champion 2011, 2012, 2013
Travel addict, taco elitist, music nerd
Work in education technology. Live with 2 roommates.

Seattle -> LA -> NYC

PHILOSOPHY

1. Work hard, you only get what you give.
2. Treat others well, unless they prove not worthy of it.
3. Have fun, you'll be dead soon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love hosting people and showing them a good time. When you come to a city like New York and there's so much to do, it's hard to distill what's good and what's not. In addition, there's the tourist New York and then there's the local New York, most people don't get to experience New York as a local, instead sticking to the tourist areas and not really getting a true New York experience.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met some truly amazing people while hosting them in Los Angeles and New York.

I've also been hosted a few times while on travel and have met up with others for coffee, which has been awesome to get to know more locals.

Interests

I believe in being more Renaissance man than specialist. I believe in traveling somewhere foreign every year. I try to see as many shows as I can. Cooking is an art. I have to watch sports highlights daily. I believe in owning king sized pillows, dressing well, relentless improvement, and minimalism. A pet penguin would be my favorite pet, akitas or pomskies will work too.

• pets
• arts
• education
• cooking
• coffee
• technology
• traveling
• watching sports
• minimalism
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• sports
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Animal Collective, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beach Boys, Beach House, The Beatles, Beck, Billy Joel, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Disclosure, Elvis Costello, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Local Natives, Lykke Li, M. Ward, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Pavement, Phoenix, Radiohead, Richie Kotzen, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Surfer Blood, Talking Heads, TV on the Radio, Twin Shadow, The Walkmen, Wilco, Woods, Yeasayer

Airplane!, As Good As It Gets, Beautiful Girls, Fight Club, The Godfather, The Life Aquatic, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption

100 Years of Solitude, Anna Karenina, Catch-22, Dress Your Kids in Corduroy and Denim, Freakonomics, The Master and Margarita, Moneyball, Tender is the Night

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping under the stars in absolute quiet in Sequoia National Park. Driving down the coast along PCH through Big Sur in California. Hiking for 4 days in Zhangjiajie in China. Surfing along the Peniche coastline in Portugal. Cinque Terre in Italy. Patagonia in Argentina. All amazing in their own ways.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a lot of random things, I'll be happy to share with you anything I know.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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