CURRENT MISSION

To make a skin on frame kayak fast and cheap. (Completed! Come paddle it. Lapstrake is next.)

PHILOSOPHY

Sobriety is the vice of life. Or...

The Little Vagabond
by William Blake.

Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold,
But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm;
Besides I can tell where I am used well,
Such usage in Heaven will never do well.

But if at the church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day,
Nor ever once wish from the church to stray.

Then the parson might preach, and drink, and sing,
And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring;
And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church,
Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

And God, like a father rejoicing to see
His children as pleasant and happy as he,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveling, hosting, admiring the creation of an international community. My wife travels the world for work (well, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia), but we don't get many international visitors in this corner of America, and would love to host people on the way through.

Centres d'intérêt

Literature, writing, my daughter and wife, wooden boats, swimming in nature, tree and rock climbing, trail running, cooking all day long, guitar, food prepared with smoke and salt and love, wandering (but not being lost; tried it once, no good), building, creation, beer, ultimate frisbee.

• birds
• writing
• literature
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• running
• drinking
• traveling
• guitar
• kayaking
• trail running
• rock climbing
• swimming

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Watched my daughter come into the world.

Spent 7 days alone at 22,000 feet, below the North Col of Everest. Alone except for the gorax, these giant misshapen warped brethren of the raven.

Pays que j'ai visités

Andorra, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Spain, Ukraine, United States

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