CURRENT MISSION

To eat ALL of the jellybeans.

ABOUT ME

these are some things that are lovely: wandering around grungy suburbs taking pictures, hiking up glaciers at midnight to watch meteor showers, drinking beer at the beach when the sun finally comes out and everyone from the city runs out to enjoy its rays, joyriding a shitty but amazing bicycle around east vancouver, hosting work parties in cafes, playing a synth that looks like an organ in an indie rock kinda shoegaze band, kayaking past seals at sunset, licking ice cream in the park, swinging on swingsets at night after maybe one too many drinks so it feels a bit sickening but also awesome, reading books on the porch and then falling asleep just as it gets to the boring part.

PHILOSOPHY

Le plus lourd fardeau c'est d'exister sans vivre. C'est dans l'action que l'on se sent vivre.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet cool folks, share adventures and enjoy the rollercoaster of life.

Interests

Not being homeless, late night cafes, hot showers, cold beer on the beach in the summer, the exhaustion and rush of surveying the world from the top of a mountain, joke tattoos, compact lightweight camping and hiking gear, tea and biscuits, shiny objects, enjoying the sunny skies over life's parade

Things I Am Distinctly Less Interested In Than Are Listed In The Interests Category: Violent movies, apathy, mall Christmas music, feeble-minded operatic characters that sing about their troubles for 3 hours rather than pulling up their socks and fixing them, fascism, roll-on deodorant

• books
• singing
• tattoos
• beer
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• music
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Dharma Bums, Anna Karenina, Le petit prince, Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, À la recherche du temps perdu (a long-term project not proceeding at breakneck speed: it has taken me about six years to read 2 1/2 volumes), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Hamlet, Walden, Letters to a Young Poet, law texts (the drier, the better)

While flash-in-the-pan bands will inevitably fade into obscurity, I'll always have Radiohead, The Beatles, Manu Chao, CCR, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Ella and Louis, Chopin, Debussy, Johnny Cash

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping at a monastery in Bulgaria

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share my love for trailrunning, hiking, piano, languages, gardening, cycling, drawing...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Great food, fun sports activities, enjoyable conversation, and a glass of wine or cup of tea!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Peru, Qatar, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

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