CURRENT MISSION

Live my life so well that death will tremble to take me. Or something along those lines...

ABOUT ME

I am a good-spirited islander lad with green eyes, weird hair, and big bushy eyebrows. I am happiest when I am with the ocean, and I hope that I never have to live very far away from its briny glory. I recently got my SCUBA certifications so I'm stoked to get out into the world with an excuse to jump in the ocean anytime I see it! I am an avid canoeist and outdoorsman and I hope one day to canoe across Canada. I am a passionate environmentalist and in my spare time I love hiking, boating, swimming, sledding, camping, rugby, soccer and sailing. I love dressing as a robot, writing theatre, poetry, and fiction, and I have a History/Philosophy degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland. I play jazz trumpet and guitar.

I love travelling and exploring, be it local or global. I want to experience the world as much as I can before I bite the dust. So far this is working out pretty well.

PHILOSOPHY

"We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us"
-Charles Bukowski

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet new people and escape the doldrums of hotel life.

Interests

I would love to see the northern lights. Jam sessions are wicked. Jazz music, letter writing, N64, Capture the Flag, Theatre, Citrus fruits, pomegranate, and fresh pineapple are great too. I love pubs for the beer, garlic fingers and nachos. I love skiing, nordic or cross country, rock climbing, hiking, nature walking, canoeing, Frisbee. I'm always up for a beer and a drinking song or two, and I will never turn down a campfire.

• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• walking
• drinking
• pub crawls
• boating
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• trumpet
• hiking
• canoeing
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing
• skiing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• rugby
• swimming
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Tom Stoppard, Hannah Moscovitch, Martin McDonagh, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, George Luis Borges, Douglas Adams, Hunter S. Thompson, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Roald Dahl, Anthony Burgess, Haraki Murakami, Ken Kesey, EE Cummings, Charles Bukowski, Douglas Coupland, Baruch Spinoza, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stephenson, Charles Baudelaire, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Herman Melville.

Tame Impala, Joy Division, Kaytranada, Frank Ocean, SZA, BADBADNOTGOOD, The Smiths, Ryan Adams, Talking Heads, Anderson .paac, Ought, Do Make Say Think, the Beer Patrice, New Order, DIIV, Metz, Melody's Echo Chamber, Pond, Louis Armstrong, Viet Cong, Grizzly Bear, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Nick Cave, Sun Kil Moon, Florence Welch, Why?, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stephens, Modest Mouse, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Pretty Lights, Two Door Cinema Club, Kanye West, Earl Sweatshirt, MF Doom, The Strokes, Destroyer, Nicolas Jaar, Jessica Pratt, Courtney Barnett, Kendrick Lamar, Beach House, Mac DeMarco, The Lonely Parade, Neutral Milk Hotel, Tragically Hip, The White Stripes, Death From Above 1979, Destroyer, Franz Ferdinand, John Lennon, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, all that good stuff...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dancing with Beninese voodoo Elders. Driving a tuk tuk across India. Parachuting in Darjeeling. Circumnavigating Prince Edward Island by canoe. Smudging Ceremony in Montreal. Meteor shower skinny dips. Wreck diving in the Honduras. Mushroom picking in Newfoundland. Swimming with bioluminescent plankton in the St. Lawrence.

Teach, Learn, Share

Some guitar chords, trumpet fingerings, beer 101, Canadian history, how to slackline, building a fine wood fire, some modern philosophy, and quite a few random facts.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love to chat and I'm a pretty good listener

Countries I’ve Visited

Benin, Cuba, Honduras, India, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada