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Overview

  • 11 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Music Teacher (private lessons)
  • I'm in UNCA
  • From Asheville, NC, United States
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To do what makes me come alive, and to love the people around me.

ABOUT ME

Well, well, well, let's see. I recently got married and bought a travel trailer to live in with my lovely wife Julianna. I like playing music, most any stringed instrument but primarily the banjo right now. I love rock climbing, backpacking and being in the mountains; solitude, peace, beauty, these are my friends. I am attending UNCA for music composition and Julianna is a nurse.

PHILOSOPHY

Today is all I have. I cannot worry about tomorrow or yesterday. Right now, the moment I am in, the people that I am with, what I am doing; these are the most important things in the world for me. I receive as much love from my Creator as I can, then immediately turn around, today, and spread to the people I encounter.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted a Scottish guy at my house during the last 3 days that I lived in Nashville TN, I actually live in Asheville NC now where I grew up.

I stayed with some very cool, eclectic and down to earth people all over Colorado during June 2010. They're extremely hospitable and showed me around all the cool spots.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very Positive. I enjoy hosting when I can, and surfing is like having instant best friends for a weekend in a new town. They show you around, let you meet their friends, and sometimes feed you and take you rock climbing.

Interests

Rock Climbing, Composing weird modern classical music, Playing the banjo, backpacking, swing dancing (or really any kind of dancing), looking at the stars and spotting the constellations and planets, walks in my neighborhood, drinking a double-shot of decaf espresso no cream or sugar, reading good novels that have interesting characters and a classic plot (not like those books that are snapshots of dysfunctional characters that don't do anything but be slightly unsatisfied), taking pictures of beautiful things (you gotta frame it in a creative way with perspective to catch the light the right way)

  • books
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • swing dancing
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • classical music
  • backpacking
  • surfing
  • rock climbing
  • nursing
  • beaches
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Gillian Welch, Waterdeep, Railroad Earth, Ben Harper, Medieval Choral Music, Igor Stravinsky, Danny Elfman, Spoon, Blondie, The Shins, Steve Earl, Old Crow Medicine Show, Brandi Carlile

Movies: Stranger Than Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Paris Je Temme, Amelie, Into the Wild, In America, The Rage on Placid Lake, Reign Over Me, Lars and the Real Girl, Phoebe in wonderland, The Peaceful Warrior, James and the Giant Peach, AdventureLand, Edward Scissor Hands

Books: A Wrinkle in Time, The Trees, Mere Christianity, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Yearling, The Stars.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went to the National Rainbow Gathering in the Monongahela Ntl Frst in West Virginia (State Motto: Wild and Wonderful!!)

Rock Climbing in The Needles in Sequoia Ntl For, Indian Creek in Utah
Gambled $5 at Vegas
Surfed at Pacific Beach in San Diego

Countries I’ve Visited

Honduras, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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