CURRENT MISSION

I'm completing a road trip across North America for a book I'm writing with the help of Couchsurfing.

ABOUT ME

I'm a 69-year-old writer who has made his living mostly writing about computers, smartphones, and the Internet, with a nationally syndicated column and a book published by a Macmillan imprint. I've also written about travel, politics, history, the environment, and photography.

PHILOSOPHY

You have to go out of yourself at times to get into yourself. Simplicity can be voluntary. Being authentic is an individual thing. Taking reasoned risks can help you get you where you want to go even if you don't yet know you want to go there. Keeping your eyes, ears, and heart open can also help no matter where you are. But I don't claim any final answers, only questions.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Thus far I've only been a guest, but when I'm rooted again I plan to host. I'm quiet, clean, unassuming, and safe.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been a guest with a diverse and fascinating array of people. Seeing a place through a local person's eyes, like I hoped it would be, has turned out to be a much more interesting way to travel than merely being a tourist, in a group or alone, and looking at sites from the outside.

Centres d'intérêt

Good talk, reading, Internet surfing, walks. I like talking about philosophy, science, history, books, movies, and lighter stuff too.

• writing
• books
• technology
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• surfing
• history
• science

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

I really loved Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, not so much his To Rome With Love. Silver Linings Playbook was great, uplifting. Life of Pi was beautifully filmed but better as a book, I thought anyway. Lincoln was heavy and honest, like Abe. Music tastes are eclectic, liking a lot of different kinds though nothing these days that I'm passionately attached to. I've read (or reread) these books in the past year or two: The Omega Theory by Mark Alpert, The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngard, Remembering Denny by Calvin Trilling, Ironweed by William Kennedy, The Ice Beneath You by Christian Bauman, Centennial by James Michener, Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Helping to raise two children who I keep in touch with via cell talk, cell text, FaceTime, Skype, Facebook, and email. I previously lived and worked in England, Sweden, Finland, Greece, and Israel, and I spent more or less extended time living in Spain, France, and Tunisia. To give back, here in the U.S. I volunteered teaching English to recent immigrants.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

Practical skills include helping with writing or editing and helping with Windows computers and iPhones (not a tech support person but I know more than the basics).

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Stories

Pays que j'ai visités

Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

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