CURRENT MISSION

Exploration to the highest degree!

ABOUT ME

I am a teacher, in the occupational sense, most recently teaching English in South Korea, and am doing my best to check out the various corners of the globe. I studied for one semester at the University of Amsterdam, so that allowed me to check out much of central, a little bit of Eastern, and a smattering of northern Europe. In Asia I've lived in Seoul for a year, and traveled to Tokyo and Mongolia. So there you have my traveling experience, which mostly means I can tell you the relative cost of booze in those locales.

It's hip to say you don't want to see famous/historical sites, so: I want to see some of them, but I mostly want to meet people who love talking about all facets of our existence, want to listen to music of all varieties, and share whatever they like of their culture. Oh, and local food and substances are always a curious culinary treat!

PHILOSOPHY

In a few quotes:

"Life gushing all around."

"I think that people are the greatest fun."

"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"

"All you need is love."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I intend to make my couch available when I am not traveling, but enjoy some enlivening and mutually excellent times while surfing on other people's couches.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted two young Americans in Seoul, Korea. Met up with some couchsurfers here in the USA.

Interests

adventuring
homo sapiens

• culture
• dining
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• surfing
• teaching
• historic sites

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: (quick list) Pixies, Arcade Fire, Of Montreal, Beatles, Ride, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Stone Roses, Pulp, Daniel Johnston, Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division, freakout shred guitar, heavy electronic music, classical/flamenco guitar, brutally good hip-hop....

Books: The Big Russians (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn, et al), Orwell, Hemingway, Asimov, Nabokov, Gunther Grass, Garcia Marquez....

Movies: Waking Life, Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, Star Wars (Episodes 4-6), Fletch...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

stream of consciousness... living on a farm in Mongolia for 5 days.

But generally, most days that involve interesting people, good friends, good music, and/or all of the above

Teach, Learn, Share

A few of the perspectives by which we can view this world; that when it comes to music, it's not just what you play but how you play; smatterings about the various cultures I've been exposed to (American and Korean especially); probably some other stuff that'll be worth a few of your moments.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, South Korea, United States

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