CURRENT MISSION

Wake up earlier :)

ABOUT ME

I think I'm an idealist; always looking for the best of any situation.

I wish I had a more profound reason for traveling, but for now, I do it bc its fun.

Below is my Bucketlist. Its probably the most honest way I can describe myself without explanation.

Throw a boomerang and have it come back
Participate in a curling match
Run a marathon
Land a tre-flip [11/10/2015]
Skateboard, Snowboard, Surf all in the same day
Make a ‘full court’ basketball shot
Reach the peak of a mountain
Watch every movie on the AFI Top 100 list
Watch every movie on Sight and Sounds’ Top 250 Greatest list
Watch every movie in 1001 Movies to See before You Die
Watch every Alfred Hitchcock movie
Watch every Woody Allen movie
Watch every Vincent Price horror movie
Watch Sátántangó in one sitting
Watch every episode of Seinfeld with Emily (180/180) [12/14/2014]
Read War and Peace
Read Infinite Jest [2/24/2015]
Read every Shakespeare play
Read Harold Bloom’s Western Canon
Read the entire newspaper one “morning” [12/18/2014]
Take a Great American Road Trip [10/10-11/4/2015]
Take a scenic fall foliage drive in the U.S. [10/2015]
Visit every U.S. state
Drive a scooter through an urban Asian city
Go to Antarctica and reach all 7 continents
Visit every country in the Eastern Bloc
Visit Havana, Cuba (not as cool anymore now that it is legal)
See the Northern Lights
Go to space
Go to the Olympics
Go to the X Games
Go to every Long Grove festival
Buy something tacky from Nifty 50s [8/18/2013]
Go to a Yankees/Red Sox Game [4/21/2012]
See the Cubs [w]in the World Series
Hit a home run over an outfield fence [8/26/15]
Rob a home run over an outfield fence [8/26/15]
Crowd surf at a concert [9/10/12]
Learn calculus
Foreign language fluency
Intentionally make someone laugh in a foreign language [2/27/15]
Count to ten in 10 different languages at one point
Pronounce cyrillic
Pronounce Ř [12/17/2014]
Celebrate Boxing Day
Publish something
Write a fiction story
Fold all 100 napkins in the napkin folding book
Fold an origami crane [12/2/13]
Learn a card trick
Complete a crossword puzzle without the internet [12/17/13]
Put together a photography book
Win a photo contest
Go without eating for 24 hours [10/11-10/12/13]
Not speak for 24 hours
Not sleep for 48 hours [4/30-5/2/2013]
Record a song where I play every instrument
Learn the guitar solo from Dazed & Confused
See The Brian Jonestown Massacre live in concert [6/11/13]
See Tame Impala live in concert [10/9/13, 10/11/13]
Attend a hardcore-satanic-thrashin-screamo-death-metal concert
Skydive
Take a ride in a hot air balloon
Zorb with Amanda
Learn to juggle [21/4/2015]
Stand in a cranberry field
Learn to cook
Eat at a classic American diner [Roxy’s Diner, Seattle, WA, 10/26/2015]
Eat at In & Out Burger [10/30/2015]
Learn to make crepes
Eat at Cafe Prague in Chicago
Be a regular at a restaurant; ie. get your food without actually ordering it [1/21/14]
Order a hotdog from a Home Depot Hotdog stand [8/30/2013]
Have a pet (cat) and name it Dennis Quaid
Own an exotic pet
Host someone via Couchsurfing
Stay somewhere via Couchsurfing [4/30/15]
Get my fortune told/palm read from a Psychic
Know every Canadian Province + corresponding Capitol [12/27/13]
Eat crab in Maine [9/20/2013]
Own a Swiss Army Knife [12/25/2013]
Parallel park a car in New York City
Order take-out Chinese food at night in New York City
Get off at every metro stop in Prague [6/28/2015]
Hold the door for someone running to catch the train [4/14/2014]
Go mushroom picking in the Czech woods
Skate under the Metronome at Letná Park [9/8/2014]
Get my shoes shined while wearing a suit and talking on the phone at the airport
Receive something important while wearing a suit and put that thing of importance into the inside pocket of my suit jacket
Slang-hang a pair of shoes [12/21/2014]
Buy something “as seen on TV”
Purchase something from Skymall
Partake in taxidermy
Ride on a segway in public, wearing a helmet
Own a pair of Chuck Taylors
Earn one dollar as a street performer
33/96

With explanation (in short and in regards to couchsurfing): I am an easy-going person and never complain about anything that is offered to me. I want to couchsurf bc it is without a doubt the most authentic way to travel. Maximizing every possibility of adding some local flavour to your experience.

PHILOSOPHY

Perception is reality. In light of any situation, you can always come out ahead. But at the same time, we were created with a pretty thick skull, so every once in a while, I just like to jump head first and figure it out later.

Impatient, but only in a good way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Its the best, most authentic way to travel.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing in the Lithuanian countryside on Easter weekend.

Interests

Everything, excluding political jamber between family members.

Watching a great movie, discovering new music, taking pictures, editing pictures, learning the guitar/flute, reading about space, sports involving a board, autumn, food, Canadian football and American hockey.

Anything I have never done.

• pets
• cats
• exotic pets
• books
• photography
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• chinese food
• marathon
• running
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• origami
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• skateboarding
• sports
• basketball
• boxing
• soccer
• hockey
• olympics
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Pierre Melville, Woody Allen, Terrence Malick, Roman Polanski, Jason Reitman, all 80s horror movies

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Tame Impala, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Led Zeppelin, Arctic Monkeys, Tom Petty, Kurt Vile, TV Girl, Temples, David Bowie, Ariel Pink, Eric Clapton, Best Coast, The Kinks, Interpol

Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, David Foster Wallace, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Geoffrey O'Brien, James Agee, Samuel Pickering, John le Carre, Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Played soccer with a local Amazonian tribe on a hand cut field in the rain forest.

Teach, Learn, Share

We'll figure something out :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Respect, Kindness, Cleanliness, Funness, a pair of ears and hopefully some jokes here and there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States