ABOUT ME

I've got a terminal case of wanderlust and being sedentary drives me mad. I'm a bit of a Europhile, especially with regards to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I'm most interested in people and stories. As a student of literature, I love stories and deeply admire storytellers. If you've got a story to tell, no matter how ordinary or absurd, how tame or shocking, I'm all ears. During the course of my travels, I ended up adopting a puppy from the street in Albania. We ended up becoming best friends and now she travels all over with me. She’s quiet, super friendly and trained. I think you’d love her!

PHILOSOPHY

As Diogenes said: be doglike.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Whenever I'm off the road, I'm more than happy to host a fellow wayfarer.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed, I've hosted, I've had a blast.

Interests

Reading, writing, music, theatre, good beer, cinema, music (indie, punk, etc.).

• writing
• literature
• beer
• movies
• reading
• music
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Kurt Vonnegut, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Beckett, Douglas Coupland, Tom Robbins, James Joyce, Walt Whitman, WB Yeats, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg.

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Fight Club. Michael Collins. Magnolia. Punch-Drunk Love. Snatch. O Brother Where Art Thou? No Country for Old Men. Burn After Reading. The Big Lebowski. Closer. Amelie. I Heart Huckabees. Being John Malkovich. American Beauty.

Music: Hot Water Music. Braid. The Get Up Kids. Hey Mercedes. Inkwell. My Hotel Year. The Draft. Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves. Chuck Ragan. The Takers. The New Amsterdams. Cap'n Jazz. Aloha. Minus the Bear. Tom Waits. Small Brown Bike. Gasoline Heart. Built to Spill. The City on Film. Popidiot. Honey Power.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went to Transnistria's Independence Day and drank brandy on the streets with the military.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Albania, Estonia, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States