CURRENT MISSION

Dialectic of Collaboration

ABOUT ME
I am a biology teacher at a community college in Denver and love to travel. Recently got back from a year ling trip to Hawaii, Mexico, and Central America. I am interested in permaculture, vegan cooking and playing music. I am traveling with my life partner: the banjo!
Let's jam.

PHILOSOPHY

People will believe whatever they want to believe, whatever makes them feel the way they want to feel... And I wanted so much more, i came down from a cage on Mount Olympus, and I had an idea: i just thought myself into life, into this misery (is that Krishna philosophy?).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed a few times in Thailand, that's where i met a colony of English Teachers in Nakhon Sri Thammarat that found me a job teaching biology there. In 2013 I drove around the east coast and was hosted @ a dozen times by surfers and friends. I really try to host anyone who asks as if i have the space and the time! I went on a trip to Mexico and Central America and didn't couchsurf but volunteered on farms instead.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Recording music, group travel, massage therapy, avoiding a motorbike crash, being hooked up with a jobby jobby job, dancing out on the town, just plain ol having fun.

Interests

Different lifestyles, sub-cultures, cultures, astrology, conspiracies, healthful living, non-violence, psychology, philosophy, dancing, jamming out, sustainability, revolution, evolution, John the Beetle, bioenergetics, caloric restriction, massage, acupressure, brewing, cooking, physiology, animal rights.

• animals
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• vegan
• massage therapy
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• backpacking
• biology
• psychology
• group travel
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

fear and loathing in las vegas, pan's labyrinth, David Bowie's labyrinth, any movie with word labyrinth, Rick & Morty, fight club, bill hicks, Jim Gaffigan, Quentin terrantino, Naked Lunch, Guns Germs and Steel, parks and rec, F. John Misty, Radiohead, American Gods, Tame Impala, Electronic Spiritual Dance Music, The Knife, Mars Volta, Opeth.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-dancing so all-out at burning man on mushrooms that people thought i was an alien.
-playing guitar on the street at Lovefest in san francisco
-looking through an electron microscope at subcellular organelles
-sleeping through a formidable thunderstorm in a cuddle puddle while backpacking in the sierra nevada mountains
-when the diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the world series (I laughed, silly Yanks!).

Teach, Learn, Share

It is nice to share knowledge and skills, it is very chivalrous and academic to do so, very empathetic and altruistic.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Scotland, Thailand, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Nicaragua, Thailand, United States

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