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Overview

  • 23 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 76, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Writer
  • BS Degree Environmental Conservation, University of Color...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Write a dual memoir “Through His (my) Eyes (available on Amazon.com) of my solo cycling tour to France and Belgium, and following the guidon of my father's WWII unit.-- And planning my next travels

ABOUT ME

Avid cyclist and traveler; freelance writer, published Author-presently writing a memoir of my father in Europe during WWII and cycling tours in France and Belgium

PHILOSOPHY

Life is not that short, but I am using my time to build memories. After all, dead last a really long time

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By hosting surfers in the same way I have been hosted.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In 2012, I made more than a dozen new friends while bicyling for two months in France and Belgium, mosly through Couch Surfing

Interests

Writing, cycling, the environment, photography, massage, music

  • writing
  • books
  • photography
  • environment
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • tour de france
  • freelancing
  • tours
  • beaches

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

"Following the guidon" on my father's WWII Unit, 24th Reconn Cavalry Squadron via velo from Utah Beach to Chartres; 2012 into the Ardennes and to Aachen, also following the '12 Tour de France via my velo.
Published author of two book; western historical fiction

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Saint Lucia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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