I've been traveling a lot since Covid ended, did the whole digital nomad thing for quite a while and saw most of South America and Europe. In total I've been to 61 countries. Now I'm now back in the states and have an apartment and will probably travel less for the next year, but I love staying connected to Couchsurfing since it's a way to stay connected with that part of myself while working a corporate job.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel, explore new cultures, meet new people, and learn more about the world. I strongly believe travel is essential to the human spirit, and without it we cannot truly grow and develop completely.

To quote Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Interests

I like to program, work out, and learn new things. I'm currently interested in cooking.

• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: 4 Hour Work Week, Vagabonding, The Confederacy of Dunces, Timeline, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Life of Pi, Liar's Poker, Harry Potter, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lord of the Flies, Hatchet, Holes.

Music: The Killers, Blink 182, Drake, Kanye West, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Garden State Soundtrack, The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Rise Against, Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, Bush, Pearl Jam, Oasis, Third Eye Blind.

Movies: Goodfellas, Casino, Boondock Saints, Moon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Annie Hall, The Good The Bad The Weird, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, What We Do in the Shadows, In Bruges, Big Lebowski, 40 Year Old Virgin, I Love You Man, Meet The Parents, Along Came Polly, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Anchorman, Heavyweights, Superbad (Obviously I like Judd Apatow a lot), The Truman Show, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Italian Job, Ocean's 11 (and sequals), Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Life of Brian, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Catch Me If You Can, Donnie Darko, Groundhog Day, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura, and a whole lot more.

TV Shows: Seinfeld, Scrubs, Friends, HIMYM, Better Off Ted, 30 Rock, The Office, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Futurama, True Detective, Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, Suits, New Girl.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Snuck into an abandoned amusement park in Berlin by squeezing under a fence and avoiding the security guards!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you about the tech, AI, streaming

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States