CURRENT MISSION

Discovery

ABOUT ME

I desperately want to LIVE. Not “to live” in the sense of continuing to function as an organism (obvious prerequisite), but to actively live with enthusiasm, curiosity, excitement, and acceptance.I have an intricate history. Experiences and feelings. I'm complex. I study and read...I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk. Let's talk about anything....I'm not just a creatus, manufactured, conditioned, bred for a function --Infinite Jest

PHILOSOPHY

Live life on the edge or you'll wind up in the middle of things.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

visited 32 states (14.2%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Google Chat Bot

Interests

Extraordinary experiences, dreaming big, philosophy,learning valuable lessons and sharing them, climbing, camping, hiking, Saturdays, reading, writing, listening, staying fit.

• writing
• reading
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Children of Men, V for Vendetta, The Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited, etc

Music: Vampire Weekend, The Black Keys, Empire of the Sun, The Weeks, The Gaslight Anthem, Bon Iver, The Josh Dion Band, The Hard Lessons, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Brand New, Elliot Smith, The Eels, Iron & Wine, Snow Patrol, MGMT, The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Kings Of Leon, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, The Appleseed Cast, Sufjan Stevens, Damien Rice, The Arcade Fire, Straylight Run, Death Cab, Ben Folds, John Cranford, Valentiger, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, R.L. Burnside, Muddy Waters, Band of Horses, The Avett Brothers, Passion Pit, Ninjasonik, Fleet Foxes, Kid Cudi, Miike Snow, etc...

Books: Infinite Jest, John Barleycorn, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Kon Tiki, Getting Stoned with Savages, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Post Office, Ham on Rye, Dharma Bums, On the Road, The Brothers Karamazov, Travels with Charley, Siddhartha, The Catcher in the Rye, Confession

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been Skinny-dipping in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Baltic, the Adriatic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of Bothnia.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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