CURRENT MISSION

Figuring out how to get to the grocery store without needing to use GPS

ABOUT ME

Avid double flusher. Occasional upper deckerer.

PHILOSOPHY

The universe is made of stories, not atoms

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Signing up seemed like a good start.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Still building my couchsurfing resumé.

Interests

I like experiences—40 years from now I likely won't remember the time I sat on my butt on a beach and did absolutely nothing all week; but I will remember sledding down a volcano in the middle of summer or learning how to salsa from a nun in a church parking lot. Seeing new things is great, but I want to experience life, not just witness it.

• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Buckley, Meloy, de Lucia
Movies: Scorsese, Anderson, Jonze
Books: McCarthy, Marquez, Updike

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meeting a stranger at a diner, having a 7-hour conversation, and 2 years later being best friends.
Standing face to face with a black bear and somehow scaring him away
Standing face to face with a mountain lion and somehow scaring him away
Sleeping on a park bench in Rome at night while a homeless man slept underneath of the same bench, and having a conversation that neither of us could understand because we couldn't speak the same language

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, United States