CURRENT MISSION

Help sate my wanderlust and help others sate theirs.

ABOUT ME

Moto-Vagabond travelling across the country working on a non-fiction novel about America.

PHILOSOPHY

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Since I am a vagabond, I don't have access to host, but I enjoy meeting as many people as I can and helping anyone out I encounter along the way in whatever way that I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted a couple people that were couchsurfers back when I was in college, before I was on couchsurfing.com. I'm on the road over half the year and during the summer and spring and fall I normally just camp, as it is easier than scheduling visits ahead of time, but during long distance trips through cities or the winter I try to find fellow surfers that I can chill with.

Interests

Catholic Social Teaching
Alcohol (Beer, Wine, Whiskey)
Distributism
Outdoors (Camping, Hiking, Kayaking)
Catholic Homesteading
Literature (Science-Fiction, Dystopians, Speculative History, Classic Fantasy, Picaresque, Travelogue Novels)
Cinematography
Music (Indie, Classic Rock, Folk-Rock, American Trad, Blues/Blues-Rock, Prog-Rock, Traditional Folk, Traditional Country, Alternative Rock)
Social Justice for the Poor, Orphans, Widows, & Homeless
Christian Anarchism
Civil Disobedience
Inciting class warfare
Never working on Maggie's farm again
Learning how to play the Harmonica.
International Pacifism
European Medieval History

• books
• literature
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• traveling
• homesteading
• music
• blues
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

-Music-
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stones
Queen
The Lumineers (Live at KEXP)
Joe Purdy
Counting Crows
The Band
Modest Mouse
Brand New
Johnny Cash
Bruce Springsteen
Flogging Molly
Frank Sinatra
Tom Waits
John Coltrane
Freddie King
Erik Satie
Frederic Chopin
Count Basie
Ray Charles
Streetlight Manifesto
Taking Back Sunday
Van Morrison

-Movies-
Calvary (2014)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Boondock Saints (1999)
Godfather (Parts 1&2)
Tombstone (1993)
Black Books (BBC)
Broadchurch (BBC)
Doctor Who Revival (BBC)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (1969)
The Sting (1973)
South Park (Comedy Central)
Twilight Zone (CBS)
Braveheart (1995)
Airplane! (1980)
Police Squad (ABC)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Thing (1982)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (CBS)
Luther (BBC)
Sherlock (BBC)

-Books-
G.K. Chesterton
Kurt Vonnegut (Player Piano, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions)
T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
Frank Herbert (Dune)
Terry Pratchett (Good Omens, Discworld Saga)
Malcolm Muggerridge (Jesus Rediscovered)
Saul Bellows (Henderson the Rain King)
Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary, A Cynic Looks at Life)
George Orwell (1984, Down & Out in London & Paris)
Aldous Huxley (Ape & Essence, A Brave New World)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime & Punishment, Notes from the Underground, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Brothers Karmazov)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau (Notebooks, Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience)
Robert Frost
Jack Handy
Ernest Hemmingway
Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
Soren Kierkegaard
C.S. Lewis
Henry Louis Mencken
Rafael Sabatini (The Scaramouche)
Tagore Rabindranath (Nationalism in the West)
Jonothan Swift
Mark Twain (Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, The War Prayer)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share stories, help clean around the house, give motorcycle lessons, and I have a sack of tools that I carry with me if anything around the house needs fixing. I'm also not a half bad cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States