CURRENT MISSION

Continental Bingo. Current score: 6/7.

ABOUT ME

I recently exited a career with a large, international accounting firm (KPMG) to pursue a PhD in Accounting here in Boston. (Yes, such a thing does exist.) I am flattered, however, that most are surprised when they find out what I do for a living. One of my biggest fears in life is to wake up one day and realize that I’ve lived a mundane, boring, cookie-cutter life devoid of any originality or excitement... Not gonna happen!

PHILOSOPHY

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

This community feels like something I have always craved and wished for, but never knew existed until a friend introduced me. It restores some of my faith in humanity to see a community of this caliber interact with one another.

Interests

A study in opposites, I'm usually torn between reading a good book... or jumping off a cliff/waterfall; chillin' at home playing the guitar... or scaling some remote peak; watching a sunset... or building & living in a treehouse; cookin’ Thai in the kitchen... or traveling the world. Getting out into the Great Outdoors on a regular basis is a must for maintaining my sanity.

• books
• reading
• traveling
• eating out
• guitar
• outdoor activities

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC- LOVE it, but the short list includes...
M. Ward (musical genius), Andrew Bird, Josh Ritter, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Radical Face, Shins, Rants, Damien Rice, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Jens Lekman, Elliot Smith, Jose Gonzalez, Ben Kweller, Electric Presidents, etc... OR if that made no sense to you... Coldplay, Postal Service, Death Cab, Ben Folds, Jack Johnson, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, any of the classic crooners (Frank, Nat, Louie, Harry, etc) and I've lately established a "Jazz Sunday" tradition (read: Miles, Thelonious, Brubeck, Coltrane, Duke, Billie) that I'm diggin... And always open for more suggestions!

BOOKS - Les Miserables, Walden, Count of Monte Cristo, Self-Reliance, Screwtape Letters, LofTR trilogy, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Long Walk, historical biographies, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked/climbed the Great Wall, hitch-hiked across Samoa, kayaked across Phang Nga bay in Thailand, safaried in Kenya/Tanzania, dug wells in Mozambique, and miraculously bowled a 201 once.

Teach, Learn, Share

“Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people... 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.”

-Mark Twain

Countries I’ve Visited

American Samoa, Bermuda, China, Ecuador, Kenya, Mozambique, Peru, Samoa, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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