CURRENT MISSION: to steal the Declaration of Independence

I read too much, I adore camping the National Park system, and I'm on an eternal Sisyphean journey to make the perfect pizza.

Two mottos I live by: 1.) Never turn down an adventure (without good reason), and 2.) Got to try (most) everything once.

Do what you can do. DON'T PANIC.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I've surfed a bunch of times, and hosted a handful. To me, it's more about making a connection than finding a free place to crash. It has, time and time again, shown me that the world is filled with generous, amazing people, who I would likely never meet in a different situation. Being in a new place, CSing also has the ability to give people a different perspective than what normal tourists commonly find. It opens people up, in a really brilliant way.
I've surfed with a few different people in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, and gone to a few get-togethers in various places. I studied abroad in Granada, Spain where I participated in couchsurfing "intercambios" (language exchanges). While living there I surfed in both Ireland and Norway.

Centres d'intérêt

Books are the single best thing in the universe. I don't understand why anyone, if they had the resources, would not read. I love to cook (my best dish is balsamic glazed salmon). I (attempt to) paint. I make stenciled t-shirts. I am obsessed with anything Tolkien. I like to longboard when weather permits. I bike a lot, even though I know next to nothing about good bikes. And (obviously) I like to travel.

• books
• cooking
• traveling
• painting
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• scuba diving
• language exchange

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Top Three Movies: LOTR series (they count as one, right?), Lost In Translation, and GATTACA.
Top Three Artists: Gorillaz, Prince, Daft Punk.
Top Three Books: Anything by Tolkien, Anything by Douglas Adams, and Anything by Ernest Hemingway.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

(1) Biking down Sognefjord in Norway, (2) Backpacking for a week in the Trinity Alps of California, (3) cliff diving seventy feet into the Mississippi River, (4) witnessing a red and gold sunset from the Temple of a Thousand Buddhas in Hong Kong

Pays que j'ai visités

Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Puerto Rico, Spain, Vatican City State

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Spain, United States