I'm currently working full time and beginning training as a California naturalist. I try and spend most of my free time hiking in the redwoods or working on my 87 VW Vanagon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm all about CouchSurfing. This website and this way of travel allow us to make friends, get a roof over our head, and to experience the perspective of a local - all without paying a dime. I've benefited from this site for years and whenever I'm in a position to host, I love to give back to this community and meet new folks.

Interests

Hiking, backpacking, vanagons, nature, music, "law", sustainability, art, dada, revolutionary politics, books, philosophy, coffee, vinyl records, trees, spirituality

• arts
• books
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• politics
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

films: the Big Lebowski, A Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, Bottle Rocket, Clerks, Suburbia, I Heart Huckabees, Back to the Future, Repo Man, Total Recall, Citizen Kane

books: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, the Bhagavad Gita, Breathe! You are Alive by Thich Nhat Hahn, Origins by John Zerzan, Be Here Now by Ram Dass, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Tolstoy, Jose Ortega y Gaset, Vegan Cookbooks

music: pretty much anything & everything... The Smiths, Zounds, !!!, Television, American Nightmare, Bob Marley, The Misfits, Gang of Four, The Ramones, CRASS, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Stray Cats, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Bad Brains, The Animals, Michael Jackson, Wu-Tang

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learned how to build and spent the night in an Icelandic turf house; hung out with reindeer and experienced 5 days of daylight in Swedish Lapland; met so many incredible people while traveling.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well... Lately, we have been really into fermentation. If you're at all curious about kimchi, sauerkraut, wine, cider, kombucha, beer, lacto-soda, nut cheeses, pickles, or anything fermented, we could probably teach you. I teach classes on backpacking skills & how to use a map and compass to find your way in the backcountry so if you're curious, I could help with that too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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