CURRENT MISSION

I really enjoy being a chiropractor, am rebuilding an old sailboat, brewing spirits and farming

ABOUT ME

The bad thing about ADD is you do so many things! I do love chiropractic tho, when I went off to school I didn't know I would come to love it so much. I am making my home into a sort of "playground with a pond for swimming and a good garden for fresh food, a couple of orchards for fruit and besides building different hideouts around the place I am building a fishing shack down by the pond and a rather large root cellar. I am 60, Deb just turned 58, she is a cook and main sunny disposition wherever she lives and we do barbecued salmon like you wouldn't believe! I write poetry and fiction with an online group at www.zoetrope.com a site for the arts, I play various musical instruments, sometimes recording on computer.. A year ago I launched a recovered 40' sailboat and am currently putting in the motor, replacing the bowsprit and building the galley, looking for crew this summer for sailing! hmmm I could go on!

PHILOSOPHY

It is human nature to become dissatisfied with any situation you become familiar with. Ignore those feelings, in reality you probably have it pretty darn good!
When the going gets tough, it may very well be time for a nap!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

currently I host woofers from CS and tell other people about CS

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I Hitched a LOT when I was younger and usually was invited to stay over after a long ride, once I caught a ride from one car as we passed an old VW bus, he pulled over and took me from Dallas to Las Vegas where his aunt and uncle invited me for dinner and a nights sleep. The uncle was a doctor a lawyer and a minister, a really learned man and he was interested in what I was up to...at 19, he made me feel important, that was a profound gift...

Interests

I play music, garden, build, cook...eat! develop skills on computer, fish for salmon and crab, hunt, travel, I really enjoy people and I do love to adjust people! Did you know there are over 200 different kinds of techniques for chiropractors to use to help their patients?

• fish
• arts
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• boating
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• sailing
• swimming
• law
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

The Matrix and Tolkein trilogies, Vanishing Point, Blood and Donuts and Six String Samurai Dune, The High Tech Knight series, All of Heinlein most of Mercedes Lackey and Orson Scott Card too much music to list except I can't tolerate opera and barely Country...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

single handed sailboats in various adventures, once rowed a 30' boat 40 miles in one day (using the tides to help...)another time I crossed the Straight of Juan de Fuca overnight with no compass or charts... I had orcas jumping around my boat the next morning when I made it to San Juan, I caught a 10 pound King Salmon on a hand line. Amazing? Watching your kids grow up! Awesome, 22 years now with Deb, she's the best!

Teach, Learn, Share

I really appreciate that CS has the subgroups where people of like minds and interests can reach out to each other.. I do a lot of different things from cooking to construction, welding to boating, farming orchardist distiller famer gardener, some things I am really good at, others I just try my hand at it!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Netherlands, United States

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