CURRENT MISSION

To live in the present and to seize every day.

ABOUT ME

After working in the insurance industry as an actuary for most of my life, I quit my job in 2003. During the past 6 months spent some time in the States, Greece, and Palestine. I've lived in the UK, Egypt, and the US, and traveled in Costa Rica, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Hungary, France, Kenya, South Africa, and Ireland.

PHILOSOPHY

Live in the moment, and don't put off what you really want to do.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, and telling people about couch-surfing. I'm going to be travelling until February, 2015. I may be available to host in Olympia when I return.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed with hosts in New York, London, and Red Bluff, California. I've hosted in Cambridge and London, England.

Interests

I try to capture the essence of folks that I meet in my photographs. I'm interested in peacemaking and social justice. During my time in Palestine, I gave a math lecture at Birzeit University, made friends in Jerusalem and Ramallah, and documented examples of settler violence in Hebron.

• perfumes
• boating
• traveling
• surfing
• sailing
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Bluegrass,jazz, Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns, Constant Gardener, Gandhi, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Stones, Doors, and Dylan. Most recent books: Voyage of the Beagle, and Scandinavian Crime fiction (Larsson, Mankell, and Nesbo)

Teach, Learn, Share

Mathematics and the wonders of the world. I want to sail a boat around the world, and learn as much as I can.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Palestine, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, United Kingdom, United States

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