CURRENT MISSION

After quitting my job in May 2016, I backpacked and hitchhiked across Mexico and California with my girlfriend, Trina! We are now proud owners of a narrowboat called Norah and reside in Birmingham.

ABOUT ME

There's a handful of things you might find pertinent to know about me: I am a collector of fine antique teapots (or at least I aspire to be, so far I just have one), I have an unhealthy obsession with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I wear too much black, I get lost at least three times a day, I have undesirable hipster tendencies when it comes to music and literature and I love tomato ketchup on everything*.

I am a University dropout and proud of it, and am extremely opposed to the notion of growing up and having a career (like all the cool kids are doing nowadays). I can say, without a single trace of insincerity, that I am the happiest I've ever been in my life!

*almost everything; I tried it with yogurt when I was younger and it didn't go down very well.

PHILOSOPHY

Recently, I've been learning to not let other people's definition of success and happiness dictate the way I live my life. I want to be open to happiness wherever I find it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I can summarise the above in three parts:

1) Seeing a city through the eyes of a local is an amazing and unique way of travelling; it's beautiful to experience a different way of life, and to make friends across the world.

2) There's an instant gratification in putting your trust in someone and having someone put their trust in you; it's the foundation on which couchsurfing is built.

3) People can, at times, take CS too seriously; they forget that at its core, CS is about generosity and not always about a religious cultural exchange. I'm on CS because I want to believe that true altruism exists, and that people want to help people for no other reason that to save them from a fourth consecutive night on the urine infested streets of LA (yes this happened, and no it was not fun).

Interests

• writing
• hiking
• sleeping
• wild camping
• the great outdoors
• teapots
• buffy the vampire slayer
• tomato ketchup
• bitter alcoholic authors

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiked over 1000 miles across Baja California, from Cabo to Tijuana, in two days.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am a stellar conversationalist, with a mediocre to semi-intermediate knowledge of many things, including (but not limited to): cult 90's tv shows, cartoon network, Welsh history, Frida Kahlo, aglets, grammer and irony.

I don't like rap music, but I have painstakingly taken the time to learn the lyrics to many rap songs and will recite them at your leisure.

On a more serious note, I am tidy, considerate, an average cook, a connoisseur of fine, cheap alcoholic beverages which we can share, a teller of jokes (some bad, some good; humour is subjective), a dramatic storyteller... and the most grateful person you will ever meet if you allow me the privilege of sleeping on your airbed/pull-out sofa/bed/futon/floor (delete as applicable).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, England, France, Grenada, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Wales