CURRENT MISSION

Visit the world and learn new cultures on a tight budget!

ABOUT ME

Avid reader, world traveler with a passion for writing and cooking. I write the NomadicTexan.com blog. Lover of baseball and all the intricacies associated with the sport. Family man who loves his wife of 41 years and three sons more than anything else in the world.

PHILOSOPHY

Family first, travel as much as possible, try eating and cooking almost every food at least once.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Rookie.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sevilla Spain, Yokohama Japan, Cuenca Ecuador

Intereses

Traveling, Photography, Cooking, Writing, Reading, Movies.

• writing
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• sports
• baseball

Música, películas y libros

Music:
Jimmy Buffett, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Emmy Lou Harris, Beatles.

Books:
Biographies of successful people in all aspects of life. Philosophy, "Hemingway", "Steinbeck", "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.D. Salinger", "Jack Kerouac", "Harper Lee", "Norman Mailer", "Jack London ", "Robert Frost", "Tennessee Williams", "Richard Brautigan".

"Catch 22", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "On the Road", "Catcher in the Rye", "The Old Man and the Sea", "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Islands in the Stream", "The Call of the Wild", "The Great Gatsby", "The Grapes of Wrath", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Trout Fishing in America", "In Watermelon Sugar", "A Confederate General from Big Sur", "Revenge of the Lawn", "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mining Disaster".

Movies:
Casablanca, The Godfather Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Goldfinger, The Magnificent Seven, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Full Metal Jacket, The Matrix, Animal House, Annie Hall, The Graduate, E.T., The Silence of the Lambs, The Excorcist, The Notebook, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Apocalypse Now, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dances With Wolves, Waterworld, The Postman, Tin Cup.

Algo increíble que he hecho

Creating my first web site. Cooking my first loaf of bread from scratch. Reading and completing "Atlas Shrugged".

Enseña, aprende, comparte

Calm, friendly, educated and experienced. I am somewhat of an Introvert and clash with Ugly American types!

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

Opinions after 70 years on this planet.

Países que he visitado

Austria, Bahamas, Bermuda, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Países en los que he vivido

Ecuador, Japan, United States