I live in small town Vermont in the United States, work at a book publisher devoted to environmental and political sustainability, and do freelance editing work on the side. I've been Couchsurfing since I was 14, when my mother discovered this wonderful network of human being and began hosting travelers from all around the world at our home. Growing up, Couchsurfing provided me with a unique perspective on life, vastly expanding my horizons. It taught me the importance of selflessness and shared experience - of spreading knowledge and happiness, and of communal living.

CURRENT MISSION

To explore, to enjoy quality conversation, to meet people who can teach me new things and challenge my preconceptions, to do things I've never done before, to dance, listen to music, to drink good beer and eat delicious food.

PHILOSOPHY

Strive to be easygoing, attempt to enrich the lives of those around you, spread happiness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My family has hosted Couchsurfers for approximately a decade. I've met countless people from nearly every corner of the globe. I've also had scattered experiences staying with some wonderful hosts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed on couches in India, Poland, and Germany. Everyone I've encountered has been extremely friendly. I'm always impressed with the easygoing, open-minded attitude that seems to be ubiquitous within the Couchsurfing community. Perhaps the most exciting Couchsurfing experience I had was being taken as a guest to a Hindu wedding in Jaipur, India.

Interests

• animals
• writing
• literature
• beer
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• snowboarding
• ecology
• journalism
• religion
• sociology
• art
• food
• digital art
• longboarding
• whiskey
• conversation
• mysticism
• herbalism
• human beings
• publishing
• politics.

Music, Movies, and Books

Far too many to list. Here are a few, but in general I'm open to nearly everything. There's nothing I enjoy more than trading recommendations and being exposed to new music, movies, and books.

Music: Steely Dan, Talking Heads, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, The Grateful Dead, MF Doom, A Tribe Called Quest, BADBADNOTGOOD, D'Angelo, Wilco, Paul Simon, Digable Planets, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Frank Zappa, Phish, Modest Mouse, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, St. Vincent, Built to Spill, The Strokes, Thundercat, Jerry Garcia Band, Grover Washington, Jr., Lettuce, Fleet Foxes, Seu Jorge, Manu Chao, Alan Vega, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Courtney Barnett, The Flaming Lips, Guided by Voices, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jamila Woods, Jerry Paper, Noname, Lou Reed, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, Roy Ayers, WHY?, William Onyeabor, Mulatu Astatke, Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Muddy Waters, The Zombies, Elvis Costello, Otis Redding, Born Ruffians, Dirty Projectors

Movies: The Shining, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Requiem For A Dream, Memento, Pan's Labyrinth, Lost in Translation, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Clerks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, Blue Velvet, Spirited Away, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, The Exorcist, Moonlight, Chicago, No Country for Old Men, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dazed and Confused, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Trainspotting, Oldboy, Deliverance, Ghost World, Stand By Me

Television: Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Game of Thrones, High Maintenance, Jeopardy, House of Cards, Broad City, Portlandia, The Office, John Oliver, South Park, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld

Books, Stories: Disgrace, The Trial, Run With The Hunted, For the Time Being, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, On Writing, Less Than Zero, Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Rum Diaries, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Taipei, The Sarah Book, Tree of Smoke, Teaching a Stone to Talk, One Hundred Years of Solitude, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Housekeeping, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, A Man Without a Country, The Hunger Artist, The Judgement, An Anthropologist on Mars, Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Brave New World, Midnight's Children, The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, A Clockwork Orange, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Picture of Dorian Gray, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fahrenheit 451, The Savage Detectives, The Skating Rink, The Bacchae,

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, good beer, conversation, stories, and recommendations for books, music, and movies. Anything, really! I always strive to give back to Couchsurfing hosts.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States