CURRENT MISSION

The only way Out is Through.

ABOUT ME

My wife and I recently pulled up stakes from Salt Lake City, UT, and did a farming apprenticeship in Albuquerque, NM. After some sojourning, we cambe back to Albuquerque!

PHILOSOPHY

Wow! How can I state something that's always in flux?
Flux, then, is my personal philosophy. Everything is always changing, and nothing will ever be the same! I love this fact about the universe, and try to embrace it totally.

I think life is crazy, weird and fun! Even the nasty bits. And besides, it's the only game in town, right??

I only have one rule I really "believe" in, that I think is absolutely vital to my life: honesty. It's not convenient or easy, but without honesty I don't see a point in even communicating with other people, if all I'm going to give them is a reality that is convenient for me, rather than what it really IS to me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As assistant editor at CATALYST Magazine, I was happy to help Benjamin Bombard publish his magazine article about Couchsurfing.com! See below:

http://catalystmagazine.net/component/k2/item/298-couchsurfingcom

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted before.

Interests

I like to do fairly long road cycling rides.

I also love camp and backpack in central and northern New Mexico.

I like to find strange hobbies to work on, like beekeeping and beer brewing.

• writing
• photography
• cooking
• beer
• reading
• knitting
• guitar
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• buddhist
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I read, a lot. Of everything. Lately I've been enjoying Neal Stephenson's historical fiction and Cormac McCarthy.

Books:
I like literary fiction, some science fiction, critical & literary theory, political non-fiction and metaphysics.

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson, Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit, El Amor en Los Tiempos del Colera and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral by Raymond Carver, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut (actually, everything by him), Canaries on the Rim by Chip Ward, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Collapse and Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond, anything by Justina Robson, White Noise by Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon.

Music:
God Speed You! Black Emperor, M.Ward, Tom Waits, The Clash, Bark Psychosis, Stars of the Lid, The Shins, The Weakerthans, Do Make Say Think, The Unicorns, Radiohead, Tool, Broken Social Scene, Beethoven, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, DeVotchka, Bob Dylan, Dresden Dolls, Calexico, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Social Distortion, Laibach, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Lali Puna, The Magnetic Fields, Carla Bruni, Slow Dive, Mercury Rev, Jeff Buckley, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens.

I DO NOT watch TV.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I can only name ONE? Screw that. I'm naming a few.

Saw the rings of Saturn through a big telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Luminescent algae in the Indian Ocean at nighttime off the coast of Thailand.

A HUGE thunderstorm at midnight in the Uinta mountains at 12,000ft.

Hiked/ran the Little Wildhorse / Bell Canyon loop trail in under two hours.

Sailed a 22' sailboat all day and then back to harbor by myself, no assistance.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a bit of a jack of all trades. I consider myself an expert in the following:

Writing, reading, thinking, outdoorsmanship.

I think I'm very knowledgeable in:

Photography, philosophy, beer brewing, cooking, occult metaphysics, Buddhism, anarchism, massage.

Things I know little about and would like to learn more of:

Plumbing, carpentry, knitting, beekeeping, vagabonding, guitar.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good conversation!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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