From Northern California, I’m a bartender and love the outdoors. Love for travel started when I was 6. Grandfather would drive me from SF to Mexico every summer until I was 14. I remember the coast, desert at night, mountains, driving from one country to another and loving it. Spending the summer with a completely different set of friends, family, food and things to do. From there my step father started taking me to visit his family in Puerto Vallarta where I would help build my parents house. And now I’ve started building my own home there.
I enjoy getting to know people, volunteering, understanding where I am, grabbing drinks with friends and going out to have a good time.
I've made many friends that I still visit and keep in touch with around the world and would like to keep that going. Inviting them to my home here in return.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

To have a great time of course!!

See the world and people where I visit in a better way then just staying in a hotel surrounded by tourists and tourist traps. Even hostels can be impersonal.

I've always made friends in almost every country I've visited but hardly friends from the country I'm in when I'm there. CS is changing that.

Centres d'intérêt

Experiencing new things, road trips, hiking, beautiful landscapes. motorcycle, self defense, building a house, like to read and solve puzzles.

• humanities
• books
• motorcycles
• chess
• classical music
• hiking
• boxing
• road trips
• adventure travel
• mountains
• bartending
• landscapes
• bridge
• natural wonders
• health and fitness

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Love anything with an amazing sound or great lyrics. So much amazing music. From Miles Davis to Nina Simone, 60's - 90's. Hip-hop to classic rock and southern rock.

For classical my favorite composer is Brahms, Saint Saens is my favorite pianist and I'm learning more about female composers, conductors, and musicians. For example I have Julia Wolfe's "Fire in my Mouth", and like listening to Hilary Hahn.

Ulysses, Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, Gravity's Rainbow, How to Do Nothing, These Truths, Batuman's The Idiot, and more.

Try to read literature that’s set in the country I’m visiting.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Went around the world on New Year's ‘17. From Beijing to Mongolia, through Siberia in the winter to St. Petersburg to visit friends. Down to the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Egypt, South Africa. Ending in the U.K and Netherlands to visit more friends.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

Can help with English or Spanish. Give self defense lessons in boxing. Show you how to make good drinks to share with friends. Worked construction and demolition so I’m good at fixing things.
Great conversationalist.

I would like to learn more about the places I stay outside of a tourist guide. Have an interest to learn more about wine, literature and the people of the countries I’m visiting.

I can share anything. At the very least help. I think it would be cool to give something from California before arriving. Or grabbing something to share or give from whatever country I'm in before hand.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

My time. A helping hand with anything that needs to be done.
Raised to be the best host and strive to be the best guest. Friends are welcomed to visit California or Puerto Vallarta any time.

Pays que j'ai visités

Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Peru, Russian Federation, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Mexico