This is my 19th year leading hikes in San Francisco, Presidio trails, Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument. I'm doing research to write a book.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My new flatmate from Ukraine just told me about Couchsurfing. Looking to meet like-minded, liberal folk interested in intellectual pursuits, history, cultural studies, world music, and practicing Spanish, hiking northern California -- Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Marin County trails.

Other guests are arriving, sorry I cannot accept visitors right now.

Interests

• sketching
• film festivals
• hiking
• film
• learning new things
• new cuisine
• new cultures
• learning spanish
• hiking,
• reading and writing

Music, Movies, and Books

Karen Armstrong's "The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness"
Nicholas Sammond's "Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation"
Douglas Blackmon's "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII"
Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"
Claude Levi-Strauss's "The Savage Mind"
World Music: West African Kora, Cubanismo, Fela, Latin
Movie: "The Biggest Little Farm"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Since 2000, this is my 19th year leading "Secret-Stair-Step Hikes of San Francisco" and hiking Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, Dipsea Trail, Mill Valley to Stinson Beach.

Teach, Learn, Share

learning Spanish, new cuisine, world music, new cultures

What I Can Share with Hosts

Secret Stair-Step hikes in San Francisco and Marin County, visit University of California, tour campus and arboretum, Brisssk Morning Walks, hiking San Francisco.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States