CURRENT MISSION

Meet awesome people and make friends around the world, isn't that what this is all about?

ABOUT ME

I don't really know what to write here so for now it will remain at this. I'm an open person and don't have secrets. I'm up for anything fun and will try just about anything once because how can you say you don't like it if you haven't tried it.

This is a loose list of my bucket list. I try to complete at least 2-3 a year and would love for anyone to help me complete it.
In no particular order.

1. Couch Surf on every continent (except Antarctica) ✔/* 2013
2. Attend the annual Tomato Fight in Spain, La Tomatina
3. Adopt a kid
4. Ride in a hot air balloon
5. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
6. Stand in front of Bellagio and enjoy the fountains play "Time to Say Goodbye" ✔ 2011
7. Be good enough to work at Carnival Court (even just for fun)
8. Learn to play the guitar (at a minimum be able to play 3 songs, one being "Dust in the Wind")
9. Have enough money so that my parents don't have to work
10. Have my dream cars
11. Ski/Snowboard
12. Help out the less fortunate (have an actual plan but I won't go into details)
13. Eat REAL NY style pizza at Lombardi's
14. Eat REAL Chicago Deep Dish pizza at Gino's ✔ 2013
15. Go to the Rodeo Cookoff ✔ 2013
16. Compete in at least one MMA/BJJ/Muay Thai tourney, don't even care if I lost in the opening round. (doubtful though)
17. Brew my own beer/distill my own liquor (not for retail just once to try it and possibly go blind) ✔ 2012/*
18. White Water Raft/Kayak
19. Paraglide ✔ 2016
20. OKTOBERFEST!!!!!!!!!!
21. Visit Hawaii
22. Fly a chopper, at least take classes
23. Tie a bunch of weather balloons to a lawn chair and LIFT OFF! anything more than 15ft and I'd be happy (reference King of the Hill Season 7, Episode 16)
24. I want to pull a Forrest Gump and go running across America, ocean to ocean, but it takes forever and I hate to run BUT I do want to bike across America, ocean to ocean. Bare minimum i want to RV across America with friends/family.
25. Attend an auction ✔ 2012
26. Own my own business(es)
27. Invent/Patent something (something that would revolutionize the world like a coffee table book...about coffee tables)
28. Visit the San Diego Zoo/Visit the Georgia Aquarium(world's largest aquarium)
29. Own a pond/aquarium big enough that you can snorkel in it (similar to Typhoon Lagoon)
30. Attend a real life Fight Club. However, it is going to be hard to find one since the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club
31. Visit the Dr. Pepper/Blue Bell/Shiner factories because Texas Rules!
32. Attend Burning Man (50/50)
33. Catch a home run or foul ball
34. See the Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela
35. Attend the Great American Beer Festival in Denver in September
36. Attend Red Bull Flugtag, once as a spectator and once as a pilot
37. Be able to juggle
38. Attend Savor in D.C.
39. Crashed Ice in Montreal, Q, Canada
40. Complete the Tough Man Competition, England (pshhh)
41. Tailgate an entire football season (one season at home and one season all away)
42. Bowfish
43. Visit Amanda in California since I never did when she was in San Antonio
44. Learn to count cards
45. Start a wave in a big stadium(concert/baseball/dynamo)
46. Build a pretty sweet sand castle
47. Flounder hunt
48. Learn to dance to country/spanish music
49. Set up a large room with a huge domino chain
50. Carve a badass pumpkin ✔ 2011/2012
51. Attend/Survive a Hockey/Soccer Riot
52. Work for the UFC or other dream company
53. Be a Sunday Junkie winner ✔ 2010
54. Go to a drive-in movie
55. Go in a shark cage
56. Become a strong swimmer
57. Go out on a date with a perfect 10
58. Visit New Zealand
59. See a volcano erupt (small eruption)
60. Shoot a .50 cal sniper rifle
61. Fire a gatling/mini gun
62. See/Participate in a flash mob/improv everywhere
[freeze mob, costume: ninja,waldo,wrestling, water balloon]
63. Have a Wikipedia Article Bio of myself (even if I make it myself)
64. Have a safari zoo (think the Animal Kingdom Safari Ride)
65. Visit Lego Land (or just see a badass lego sculpture)
66. Get on a wall of fame for eating/drinking ✔ 2012
67. Skinny Dip ✔ 2012
68. Be able to do a cartwheel/backflip. Both with and without hands.
69. The Price Is Right!
70. Walk across an old/sketch looking suspension bridge
71. Perform at an amateur night at a comedy club
72. Build a nice dog house ✔ 2012
73. Meet an Amish, preferably on Rumshpringer
74. Particpate in a snow ball fight
75. Be involved in a prank war
76. Help build a house with Habitat for Humanity
77. Barter up to a golf cart/ATV/etc.
78. Go to Macau
79. Stand at the end of the runway at St. Maarten
80. Secretly be able to perform a piano masterpiece (Peanuts theme, Pathetique, Rondo Alla Turca, Moonlight Sonata, Suite Bergamasque L.75, Claire de Lune, Nocturne for Piano No. 2, Chopin's Nocturne No.3, Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu, Gymnopedies, Andreas M Wolter)
81. Catch a fish ✔ 2012
82. Hunt a deer/boar
83. Catch a BIG fish
84. See the Iguazu Falls that borders Brazil and Argentina
85. Go to a pool party in LV (treat yo self style)
86. Go to Miami
87. Go muddin'
88. Attend the Olympics ✔ 2016 (Rio)
89. Play a full 18 holes on a golf course (err, at least 9 holes)
90. Run a table from break to eight
91. Go out and survive in the wild for 3 days with minimal supplies
92. Marina Bay Sands Resort, Singapore
93. Ride a unicylce 100ft
94. Indigo Pearl Resort, Phuket, Thailand
95. If ever in Brooklyn, eat at Gloria's Caribbean Cuisine
96. Be able to do one-handed alternating push ups 20x (Rocky style)
97. Go on a police ride along
98. Visit China's Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
99. Attempt the "Naked Man"
100. Visit the Smithsonian Museum in D.C. and I guess other monuments while I'm there
101. Road trip over the Florida Keys
102. Ride a tandem bike (3+ preferably)
103. Build a snowman
104. See a whale
105. Learn a few (3) magic tricks
106. Ride in a tank
107. Go to a nude beach
108. Visit the Lujan Zoo in Argentina
109. Eat my way around the world. (Epcot) ✔ 2015
110. Drink my way around the world. (Epcot) ✔ 2015
111. Go swimming at Hamilton Pool near Austin
112. Go swimming in Jacob's Well in Wimberley, TX
113. Have a Treat Yo Self Dinner (at least $500)
114. Paddle Board
115. Experience a meteor shower out in the wild
116. Ride a makeshift raft down a river
117. Run a 5K ✔ 2013
118. Run a 10k
119. Run a Tough Mudder (this trumps 117 and 118 once completed)
120. Visit Starved Rock in Chicago with Bianca ✔ 2016
121. Visit Krueger National Park
122. Smush a firefly
123. Eat at Al Minati's in Chicago
124. Ride the sand dunes in Las Vegas
125. Ride the barrel of a wave
126. Hike to the top of Manchu Picchu (because garmachi said so)
127. Visit the Baatara Groge Waterfall (Lebanon), the Umpang Thee Lor Sue (NW Thailand), and the Burney Creek Waterfall/McWay Fall (California)
128. Go to Glacier National Park in Montana
129. IF I take up scuba, see Christ of the Abyss in Italy
130. Scuba the Great Barrier Reef/Blue Hole
131. Meet Neil Degrasse Tyson/Elon Musk
134. Visit/canoe/hike Caddo Lake, Big Bend, Gorman Falls, Pecan Flats, and Enchanted Rock (all in Texas)
135. Paint with Bob Ross
136. Victoria Falls Gorge Swing (Zambezi River, Zimbabwe)
137. View a rocket launch into space (NASA or SpaceX)
138. Experience weightlessness in the fancy plane or on the edge of the stratosphere
139. See the curvature of the Earth
140. Attend a Nascar Race
141. Attend the steepest race in Europe (as a participant)
142. Go to an observatory
143. Drink a local beer in each state in each state. Texas, Wisconsin, Louisiana,
144. Hike Red Rock in Las Vegas
145. Participate in the Buffalo Bayou Regatta
146. Visit the Colosseum
147. See the Northern Lights
148. Go to the Bayou wildlife zoo
149. Attend an Ohio State halftime show
150. Tour the SpaceX HQ
151. Tour the Tesla Gigafactory
152. Learn to whittle
153. Visit the Canton National Park in California
154. Get on the jumbo-tron at a sporting event ✔ 2016 (Rio)
155. Get on national television ✔ 2016 (Rio)
156. Get on international television ✔ 2016 (Rio)
157. Eat a Gros Michel banana
158. Play at the City Museum in St. Louis, MO
159. Relax in Iceland's Blue Lagoon
160. Scuba a (shallow) sunken ship
161. Build a snow fort
162. Particpate in the Flogsta Sream (Sweden)
163. Walk along high cliff walkway in Zangjiajie, China
164. Climb a 14'er
165. Cut down my own Christmas Tree
166. Kayak through the Bioluminescent Bay in PR
167. Attend the border closing ceremony between India and Pakistan
168. Retell/re-enact a movie in excruciating detail (like Andy Dwyer)
169. Watch the Alaskan Salmon Run
170. Go downhill luging
171. Go through a corn maze
172. Mew Year's Eve on the Vegas Strip
173. Ride/own a 1920 Harley Davidson board track racer (or equivalent)
174. Attend a live trivia show (Ask Me Another)

Honorable Mention:
-Sky Dived (Dove?) for 18th birthday
-Roller Coasters at the Stratosphere
-Added a word to Urban Dictionary
-Chili Cook-Off Champions (3x)
-Surfed many crowds and survived many mosh pits

PHILOSOPHY

If your dreams don't scare you. They aren't big enough.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I moved into my first apartment in the Galleria area of Houston.
I don't have a spare bed but you are more than welcome to my couch.
P.S. I do have a mini schnauzer who will smell you a bunch for 5 minutes and then leave you alone.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I got together with a bunch of fellow Houston surfers and went skydiving together. I have yet to host or surf but can't wait to see the world and the people that inhabit it.

07-2014 I met the best host in the world Bianca in Milwaukee. It was my first time surfing and her first time hosting. I couldn't have paid for a better experience. She forever has a place to crash where ever I am at the time. My goal is to show some people traveling through Houston just as good of a time as she showed me.

Interests

Mixed Martial Arts
Playing Pool/Billiards
Concerts
Cooking with friends(even though we have no real idea of what we are doing)
Anything outdoors and everything that has an adrenaline rush
Disc Golf
Playing cards:Spades, Gin Rummy, Poker, VC
Cycling

With all that said I don't mind playing games(video games or board games)watching a movie with popcorn or just hanging out at home.

• animals
• dogs
• fish
• aquaria
• arts
• books
• performing arts
• concerts
• festivals
• oktoberfest
• mardi gras
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• running
• drinking
• clubbing
• flying
• video games
• board games
• traveling
• billiards
• cars
• juggling
• magic
• poker
• music
• guitar
• piano
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• fishing
• kayaking
• surfing
• snorkeling
• skydiving
• skiing
• snowboarding
• baseball
• martial arts
• wrestling
• soccer
• hockey
• olympics
• paragliding
• swimming
• golf
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
-Comedies: Old School, Coming to America, Borat, Superbad etc.

-Drama: Mob Movies(Casino, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale etc.) Forrest Gump, Matchstick Men

-Action: Bourne Trilogy, Heist Movies, The Die Hards, T2

Music: Mainly rock(classic and new) Electronic/Trance Old School Rap/Hip Hop(not so much the new stuff) a tiny bit of country is good at times and of course you must respect the classics that are: Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra, Elvis etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I attended the Olympics games in Rio 2016

Teach, Learn, Share

You can learn something from everyone if you know how to just shut up and listen.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can show them that we may not all ride horses in Houston but Southern Hospitality is very real and prevalent.

I would love to show you around Houston but if you come during the week I cannot show you much. I work late and go in early but we can still grab dinner or a drink!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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