I am into outdoor skills whether it's primitive survival skills, camping, hiking or whatever. I fly paragliders. I teach basket making, edible and medicinal plants, making fire with sticks, and how to live with the land.
used to teach high school biology, fight professionally, and tour the country giving keynote speeches.
I have a series of wilderness skills books as well as a series of nature books for children on Amazon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to meet new people and find the places only locals know about. as well as share stories of traveling the world.

Interests

I lived in an off-grid log cabin I built by hand and lived there for 12 years.

• working out
• hiking
• paragliding
• wilderness
• outdoors
• edible plants
• medicinal plants
• primitive survival skills
• basket making

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I didn’t travel out of North America for 39 years, but I have been to 14 counties since then.
I rode 10 hours on a bus in Thailand with a rebel sitting next to me and the AK 47 he had hidden under his jacket poking me in the ribs.
I spent 2 weeks in Northern Thailand where no one spoke English with almost no money, no destination, no map, and no clue. Then I hitch-hiked through Cambodia.
I lived for 2 1/2 months in a remote Wisconsin forest with only a knife, a pan, some string, and a wool blanket.
I built a cabin in the woods, using only hand tools, and lived there for 13 years with no running water or electricity.
I was one of 19 people left of over 10,000 applicants when the last of us got sent home from the interviews from the first CBS Survivor series. I just missed it.
I fought live on Tuesday Night Fights, was a 2 time state champ in boxing, 3 time state champ in tae-kwon-do, a Toughman champ, an Olympic Alternate , and have had 6 MMA fights.
I wrote a fun, great, little book on how to be successful and sold it at my speeches and presentations around the country. I spoke in front of tens of thousands of people.
I took the cover photo and wrote the feature article for Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine as well as being published in 5 other regional and national magazines.

Teach, Learn, Share

Any and all wilderness skills. Website design.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Ideas on great places to travel.
Outdoor skills
Plant ID and uses
Great books
How to live cheap

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, New Zealand, South Korea, United States