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Overview

  • 27 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Reading, Writing, Thinking.
  • Literature Degree from Claremont Mckenna College
  • From Belmont, CA, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

"...an aesthetic voyager, whose home is the road."

ABOUT ME

Back from a year of traveling, and some CouchSurfing - hoping to pay forward some of the love I was shown! Love mellow music, and classic literature. Love getting off the beaten path, and meeting people who also seek the road less traveled.

PHILOSOPHY

Pushing the scope of experience toward passion and adventure...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently want to meet as many people as I can and do the real thing; love to help out in any way possible and learn new things experientially.Hosting in Laguna Beach, about 10 seconds walk from downtown and main beach.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have surfed, now looking to host.

Interests

  • literature
  • dining
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • painting
  • music
  • fishing
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • wakeboarding
  • basketball
  • soccer
  • tennis
  • table tennis
  • golf
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

East of Eden. The Great Gatsby. Anna Karenina. Deep Survival. Walden. The Screwtape Letters. Old Man and the Sea. A Hero of Our Time. War and Peace.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in a small village in Transylvania and having to kill, cook, and prepare my own food.
Sleeping under the stars and over the ice in what National Geographic called, 'last true Transylvanian village' - Mărguri.
Fishing and staying with a villager on the Denube Delta.
Staying with a paint distributor, a dairy farmer, a meatpacker and a handful of other people who picked me up while hitch hiking through Romania for a month.
20 hour ride from Brasov to Istanbul with drug smugglers.

Teach, Learn, Share

Learn, Learn, Learn.
Read, Read, Read.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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