PHILOSOPHY

To experience living as fully as possible and in doing so hopefully meet some good folks along the way to experience it with.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, Moderator of Poker Forum

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted several folks while living in Venezuela and a couple while in the U.S. and surfed with a couple. All very nice experiences.

Interests

Bryophytes (mosses), cooking

• cooking
• poker

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite authors: Robert Heinlein, Edward Abbey, Walker Percy, Ayn Rand, Herman Hesse, Willa Cather, Farley Mowat

favorite music: Old school blues (Muddy Waters/Howling Wolf/Little Walter etc.) I like most other kinds of music as well.

Favorite Movie: The Best Years of Our Lives

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Botanizing deep in the Peruvian Amazon, living off piranas and grasshoppers:) Driving across the Sanetti Plateau on a motorcycle during freezing rain and then down the escarpment through a river of mud and downpouring rain. Driving through Capital Reef National Park in a Geo Metro.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Canada, Ethiopia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States, Venezuela

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