CURRENT MISSION

Avoid sunburn at all costs.

ABOUT ME

I have a dry sense of humor. I am kind of small; one might even say pocket-sized. I make a mean goddamn blueberry pancake.

PHILOSOPHY

"We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men." -Ed Abbey

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am just getting started, and although I am currently sans couch, I will share as soon as I have one.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

newbie.

Interests

books, backpacks, cooking

• books
• cooking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: the Mountain Goats, Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers, The Talking Heads, John Vanderslice, The Hold Steady, Lifter Puller, The Weakerthans, Mirah, Silver Jews

Books: Encounters with the Archdruid (John McPhee), The Monkey Wrench Gang (Ed Abbey), Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey), The Magus (John Fowles), The Gold Bug Variations (Richard Powers), Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I volunteered on an archaeological dig and found a large, intact Navajo pot buried beneath the floor of a 900-year-old Pueblo at the bottom of Grand Canyon.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can make my own pita bread.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cook Islands, Fiji, New Zealand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, United States