CURRENT MISSION

To make love stay/never let beauty pass unnoticed

ABOUT ME

Having spent years in the relatively rough places where one had to really look to find it, I'd like to think my sensitivity to the good around us all has been turned up. Whether that mean appreciating the freedom to go where you like, the abundance of snacks all around us or simple greenery, every day is filled with chords of beauty. I never want to lose it and in my perfect world I never will.

I'm in flux after leaving what was supposed to be a lifelong career....I need to make sure the next step is the right step. Dr. Seuss fans might say I'm in the waiting place and on a cloudy day I might as well, but the boom bands are still passing through.

PHILOSOPHY

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”

Tom Robbins

TR and Khalil Gibran speak to my soul. That and the sound of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I live in downtown Savannah, GA in the historic district. My couch/air mattress will be open then and I'd be glad to show people around the city I've come to love.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In 2008 I first surfed in NYC with Evan Walther and Miranda Siegel, the hosts of Playhouse 204. While there I met and traveled with people from all over the world, truly an amazing experience.

Hosting is still a relatively new thing for me, I am generally up for it but at the moment I navigate a roommates needs as well.

Interests

A shorter list would be what doesn't interest me. Doing laundry perhaps?

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Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino stand out, plenty of others of course.

Music: Wide range, music is about how it makes you feel. If I had to pick genres, Americana/Folk and the Blues. As for artists: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Dawes, A.A. Bondy, The Black Keys, BRMC, Fleet Foxes, Led Zeppelin, NiN, Ben Howard, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine....

Books: Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, Kahlil Gibran, Hunter S. Thompson, Vonnegut, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, Hemingway, Thoreau, Marcus Aurelius

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One thing? First American to reach Annapurna Base Camp after the 2015 earthquake. Rode out the quake on the trek.

Monarch Butterfly Migration in Tikrit, Iraq

Conversations with a Sufi Mystic

Bio-luminesence on a star filled night on Tybee Island

Debating the reality of snow with Nigerians

Driving an Audi TTS through the Alps

Making Scarlett Johannson smile

Sunset at Gates Pass, Arizona

Rode a Royal Enfield motorcycle from Delhi to Khardung La, the highest motorable road in the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, India, Italy, Kuwait, Laos, Nepal, Qatar, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, Germany, Iraq, United States

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