Hey I'm Mike! I love food and my bike

06.04.18

Hey West Coasties, I"m on an epic bike journey up route one towards Portland Oregon. Its been a while since I've been on Couchsurfing due to exorbitant amounts of work and constant moving. But I've hosted travelers when I was in Detroit and couchsurfed on the East Coast.

I just graduated undergraduate college with a degree in industrial design in Detroit. It's safe to say that I like art, lol. But I'm also into Rock Climbing, Cycling, Running, Reading, Coffee shops, sustainability, technology, and meeting new people. I just came from Wisconsin working at Kohler, I'm most likely heading back after this trip to live in Milwaukee. If you're ever in the neighborhood, please come by and say hi!

In Short, you can usually find me designing, biking, and eating a lot of food. If I sound like the kind of person you wanna shoot shit with or go bike with, lets meet up, I promise we'll have a great time!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I absolutely love Couchsurfing! The connections you can make and the amazing time you can have with more or less strangers in strange lands is so awesome! Everyone I've met on here has been really cool and has made traveling so much more memorable and enjoyable. Whether it's been heading to the local bars and raising hell or grabbing dinner at hole in the wall restaurants and getting to know each other, the couch surfing community allows for an open, welcoming, and fully human centered form of travel! Heres to all the homies I've met along the way and to the many more on roads least traveled!!!!

Interests

I'm one of those nerds who's job is their interest. I draw on paper and computer screen. I 3d model and 3d print. I make stuff, cool stuff. I read books about my job. I peruse the internet about the cool things people are doing in my field and aspire to be more like them.

Buuut when I'm not doing those things. I'm traveling, riding my bike really far, and being a creep in the corner of the coffee shop doodling people.

• design
• graphic design
• drawing
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• product design

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently reading, Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart, and binging Stranger Things

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in a car for a summer whilst working at a bike shop

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Bike Mechanics? Photoshop? How to draw perfect circles, Design Thinking,
Learn: Sustainability, Tight roping, whatever language you're speaking, guitar, handstands
Share: Anything but my underwear...

What I Can Share with Hosts

A beer, burrito, and friendship