CURRENT MISSION

Refueling aircraft in Antarctica!

ABOUT ME

Traveling increases my love and understanding of other people and other places as well as the people I already know and the places I come from. I am getting pretty sick of academia, but I like the idea that a place is a space (location) that has some sort of memory attached to it (cultural, historical, even personal), and it is our duty and pleasure to preserve and share our places with other travelers. If you travel simply as a tourist, you are shown spaces that have been marketed to you. When you meet other people, you can actually experience living places.

I majored in geography because it is just that--connection to place--that I find to be one of the most important things in the world.

My other area of study was Arabic language and literature, because I think that the places and peoples of the Arabic world are some of the most interesting and least understood in the world, particularly in the West. And the writing is really pretty.

PHILOSOPHY

"Always do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"So it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Go hard or go home." - E-40

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveling around Europe and Africa meeting new people, and hosting as much as possible! I also have found CS meetings to be incredibly fun and have tried to go to them in the places I have traveled. And trying to introduce all my friends to how fun and cool CS can be...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Pretty new to this, but its been great! Many thanks to everyone who has hosted me!

March 2009
Mikkel in Billund
Rikke in Copenhagen
Kamil in Krakow

April-May 2009
Loads of CS meetings in Prague, official and unofficial!

June 2009
Laca in Budapest
CS meeting in Budapest
Kentucky Jaaq & Sultaan Daan in Prague
Agostino in Bergamo
Paola in Torino

December 2009
Angel in Madrid
Mohamed in Marrakesh
Hosted Kamilla
Hosted Amanda and Katie
Hosted Dan and Caitria
Hosted Christian and Emma
Hosted Martin and Martina
Hosted Jens
Hosted Karina
Hosted Berit, Merle, and Laura
Hosted Olya
Said in Merzouga
Uncountable CS Marrakesh Meetings!

Interests

All kinds of music (playing, listening to, experiencing, making mixtapes), the outdoors (hiking, climbing, biking, farming), eating (cooking, trying new things in new places, improvising), discussion (philosophy, current events, conspiracy theories, whatever!), and traveling of course

• dogs
• writing
• literature
• singing
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• geography
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Beatles, Wilco, Frank Zappa, Jacques Brel, Minus the Bear, Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Hot Chip, the Shins, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Iron & Wine, The Mountain Goats, Horse Feathers, Mirah, Nora Jones, Sublime, Regina Spektor, Beck, Phish, Pink Floyd, Yo La Tengo, B.B. King, Manu Chao, Feist, Bjork, The Black Keys, Blond Redhead, Anais Mitchell, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Bela Fleck, Elliott Smith, Belle and Sebastian, Cold War Kids, The Veils, THe Unicorns, The White Stripes, Metric, Elliot Smith, Modest Mouse, Dr Dre, Defunct, Broken Social Scene, Explosions in the Sky

Books: The Alchemist, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Great Gatsby, L'étranger, Métaphysiques des Tubes, A Walk in the Woods, Animorphs, Demian, Lorsque J'étais un Oeuvre d'Art, The Giver, Steppenwolf, The Catcher in the Rye, All Vonnegut, Boxcar Children

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Waltz with Bashir, Wall-E, March of the Penguins, Lost in Translation, Amelie, The Brave Little Toaster, Ali Zouoa, Love Actually

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Singing an emotionally charged rendition of "wonderwall" with a bunch of drunk czechs with guitars at the Jindryska night tram stop in Prague, while waiting for the late night tram.

Being stuck in a tiny Berber village in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco for a week when ridiculous rainfall destroyed all the roads and bridges, and drinking my weight in delicious sugary tea and eating my weight again in delicious goat tagines!

Taking a week with a rental car and three new friends to see the valleys and deserts of southern Morocco...one of the most beautiful places in the world, I'm sure!

Teach, Learn, Share

In Poland, cobblestones are called "cats heads" because that is their approximite size. at least, thats what the Poles say the reason is...

There is a wine bottle (Macedonian dessert wine, 2008 i believe) floating down the Danube with a message for someone to find. It left Budapest on the 5th of June 2009, and reveals the true purpose of life.

The tallest mountain in Morocco (and all of North Africa), Mount Toubkal, is actually mispronounced by the vast majority of people, thanks to the French. Its real name is Toug-gal, which means something like "the highest viewing point."

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Czech Republic, Morocco, United States

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