CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying life as a father, husband and an intrepid cellarman. Always down for a good meal.

ABOUT ME

Nothing is better than sitting on top of a mountain.

PHILOSOPHY

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just picked up couchsurfing again. I spent a good many years on the road with my wife and now that we're in one place (for the most part) we're excited about hosting folks. As we do have a toddler, our availability varies considerably.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My goal is to see the world one couch at a time!

Interests

Traveling, Mountains, Forests, Civil Disobedience, Music Festivals, Beer & Wine, Photography, Reading, Writing, Cooking, Whitewater Rafting, Skydiving, Camping, Scuba, Buffalo Wings, Skiing, Ben & Jerry's, Playing my Guitar, ADVENTURE!!

• arts
• writing
• photography
• music festivals
• festivals
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• camping
• whitewater rafting
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• skiing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Blues Brothers. Foreign films. Documentaries. Just about anything by Wes Anderson.

Music: I like my music LIVE! Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Phish, O.A.R., Dispatch, Jack Johnson, Xavier Rudd, Umphrey's McGee, Tea Leaf Green, G. Love & Special Sauce, The Beatles, Lettuce, A.L.O., Parliament, Jurassic 5, Michael Franti & Spearhead

Books: Kerouac, Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Jack London, John Muir, Ivo Andric and many many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived an avalanche?

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: I'm a bicycle mechanic! Give me a screw driver and a broken bike and I will return it to you fully functioning.

Learn: I'd like to learn the art of Bonsai.

Share: Nothing brings people together like a home cooked meal.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Greece, Haiti, Japan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Taiwan, Turkey, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, New Zealand

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