I have hosted backpackers since 2008. Anyone who hosts me is guaranteed a place to stay if I am not traveling.

POLITICS and PHILOSOPHY
Neo-Marxist Revisionist (Marxism for the 21st century) utopian eco-socialist, secular humanist devout atheist.

I suspect there are evolved beings so far beyond humanity that we cannot perceive them.
Those humans who sense them peripherally, worship them as deities.
I was an Army brat and grew up in Japan during the occupation and on various Army bases in Oregon Texas, Hawaii and Washington State.
I am an avid science fiction fan, world traveler, political radical and futurist thinker, waiting for the post human, technological singularity...
As a teen ager I was a paperboy, played alto sax in The Swingteens. I served in Vietnam, and became a teacher, parole agent, and internet activist, but the vocation that became my career was flight attendant supervisor for supplemental (unscheduled charter) airlines. For 20 years I traveled all over the world transporting passengers to exotic locations, prisoner flights, emergency disaster relief, evacuating refugees from war zones, transporting US troops and United Nations Peacekeepers.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

I've been hosting couch surfers since 2008; it's been mostly great, except for a couple bad apples who robbed me. As a young hippie, long before there was an internet, I traveled around the world looking for adventure; 'crashing' in an abandoned sailboat in Tahiti, a windmill in the Netherlands, a lighthouse in Spain, a boatel in Amsterdam, a fishing boat on the Ganges, in caves in the Mediterranean. One cave was in Matala, Crete where I me Joni Mitchell in 1969.
It was a golden age from the 60s to the 80s. I met many kindred souls who would flash the peace sign when they saw my long hair and would offer me a place to "crash". It was the Brotherhood of the Road.
Couch surfing is a way for me to pay it forward and I give priority to anyone who has, or will host me in return.
I also have 40 acres of rugged land in Shasta County near French Gulch and Whiskeytown, not far from Sutter's Mill where gold was first discovered in California. My Green Party Eco-warrior friends are reconnoitering the property to design an intentional community, living off the grid with earth sheltered housing. Anyone interested can contact me to camp on my property.

COUCH SURFING EXPERIENCE

Most of my guests have been wonderful people; honest, mature, responsible individuals and have received positive references.
I've had a few bad experiences. A woman who claimed to be a Buddhist monk arrived after midnight and demanded that I pick her up after waking me up, a fellow who showed up late with terrible hygiene.
One girl begged me to stay even though she had no references. Her parents had kicked her out so she was posing nude on the internet and going on sugar daddy websites. I was able to refer her to resources for housing and to apply at Santa Monica College.

Couchsurfers are often grateful and offer to clean or cook. I don't ask or expect it and it really isn't necessary. I often make pancakes with bacon and eggs, burritos, my famous pasta, or salads for vegans.

The worst experience I ever had was a persistent German woman with no money and no references. She arrived on my doorstep at night. I said she could stay for the night and I would provide her with a reference to find another host. She stayed for a week. She was hungry so I fed her and loaned her my bus pass, which she never returned. She became extremely hostile when I told her I had other couch surfers arriving. She robbed me of my rent money while I was taking a shower and finally left. I reported her to couch surfer staff.

I am very careful who I host now, but occasionally someone will pilfer items they think I won't miss.

Intereses

I play baseball, bodysurf, ski and box. I cycled New Zealand and ran my last full marathon at age 50. I'll be 80 in 2025 and still going strong.

I have a deluxe Scrabble board, playing cards and love to share travel stories.

I'm a voracious reader, I use my travel benefits to attend Green Party, science fiction and world fantasy conventions and any other excuse. Sometimes I bring a companion.

I have always tried to practice a minimalist lifestyle and maintain a low carbon footprint. I am an anti-establishmentarian, climate environmentalist, eco-warrior, internet activist and local politician.

• politics
• traveling
• cycling
• camping
• surfing
• skiing
• baseball
• science
• beaches

Música, películas y libros

Near future, hi tech, cutting edge, hard science fiction.

Cli-Fi, Cyber punk, Steampunk, hi-tech cutting-edge, near future hard science fiction, urban fantasy, alternate history and speculative fiction in general.

Sapiens and Homo Deus, Green Earth and The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Earth and Existence by David Brin. The Genius Plague by David Walton, Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, etc. I have been a beta reader for David Brin and David Walton.

Movies: Birdy, Baghdad Café, 2001, Alien, Bladerunner; more listed on my Facebook page.

Classical music, Bebop, Dixieland, Reggae, Soul, Blues, Rock, Punk, Bluegrass and some rap.

Algo increíble que he hecho

In 1963, as a young Navy Seaman based at Anacostia Naval Air Station outside of Washington DC, my friend, John Evans and I went to the Poor Peoples March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to see Martin Luther King.

NIt opened my eyes to racism and inequality in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. America still has a long way to go to end bigotry and class struggle...

After the Navy I hitched to rock concerts and demonstrations all over the country; Kent State, the Battle in Seattle, Million Mom March, and every anti-Vietnam moratorium, etc.

I toured New Zealand on a bicycle in 1990 and 1995. I have backpacked in Europe, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Tahiti. I often crashed on floors and couches or slept in my bivouac sac wherever I ended up at night.

I've lived in caves in Matala, Crete and Formentera, Spain, stayed in a windmill, a lighthouse, a canal boat in Amsterdam, a boat on the Ganges, and a sailboat abandoned by Joanne Woodward in Tahiti.

I was a Peacekeeper for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in August 2016 and stayed in the basement of the Arch Memorial Church with other activists. I was very disappointed when Bernie sold out and supported Hillary Clinton and rolled over again for the rigged primaries in 2020. That was when I realized Bernie, AOC and the fraud squad, were the controlled opposition.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I sometimes mentor and learn from young couch surfers, share tips on how to travel on a low budget, provide access to my collection of Lonely Planet and other travel books.

My Facebook page was hacked, and I lost all my data and travel photos since 2006 lost my Yahoo data from 1995. If anyone knows how to recover my data, you are guaranteed a couch for a month

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

I have hosted many couch surfers since 2008, most were responsible and considerate. I usually fed them oatmeal, eggs, pancakes, etc. for brekkie and my famous pasta for dinner. I give priority to couch surfers who have hosted me and almost always provide my couch surfers with a glowing reference.

I have been hosted in Spokane, San Jose, Helsinki, Belgium, Norway, Glasgow Finland, Dublin, Bakersfield, Tenerife and Salt Lake City for the Annual National Meeting with Jill Stein.

Países que he visitado

Afghanistan, Australia, Chad, England, France, French Polynesia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand

Países en los que he vivido

Chad, Egypt, England, Finland, France, India, Japan, Morocco, Norway, United States