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Overview

  • 20 references 18 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2018
  • musician/construction/service industry
  • bachelors in Anthropology
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Hey surfers ! I moved my stuff into a storage unit and am without a home base since May 2018. I've spent most my years touring and playing music, but my interests are varied. Being active (hiking, basketball/soccer, biking) motorcycles, reading, art/performance and good conversation.

:: 2019 :: traveled in Asia 5 months and rode my motorcycle across North America 4 times, working in between.
::2020:: Rode across the southern US states in March at beginning of pandemic. Moved around the hills of North Carolina for a few months, ended up back in NYC for the summer and found a place in the Catskills on the Delaware river September 2020. Be here till Sept 2021 with my awesome girlfriend Melissa, come stay!

2021: Back on my motorcycle on the road! Mel toured with her band and I went west to explore more. Got offered my own tour playing guitar and drums with a theater group out of Albuquerque NM and toured with them on and off from Nov-May 2022.

2022: Toured playing music from March-May, got on my motorcycle in New Mex and rode all the way to the Olympic Penninsula, exploring much of the oregon and washington coasts. Worked in northern california, Eugene, Or and Coos Bay, Or to keep my trip going. Worked and stayed at several different community, off grid style spots.

2023: Mel and I started the year by traveling to Mexico City on January 1st! It's the 10th and she left to go work back in the states and I will keep exploring Mexico and possibly central/south America, getting better at spanish along the way. Hope to meet you!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Love meeting people here, had a lot of great experiences with all different folks

Interests

  • culture
  • music
  • basketball
  • anthropology
  • history
  • art
  • bikes
  • performance
  • culture exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

I like stuff from all genres, lots of rock and metal

Books: classics, sci-fi, non-fiction, fiction, history, philosophy : Ursula Le Guinn, Bukowski, McPhee, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Naipaul, PKD, Arthur C Clark, Talbot, Herbert, Kerouac, : always reading something

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rode my '84 Honda Sabre 1100 down the Alaska highway to California. It was mid September, there was a cold snap and I started the bike in -3 c* ! Rode along side wolves, heards of bison, hungry looking bears and through ice lined mountain passes

Teach, Learn, Share

Conversation music, foraging, camping, art, food, adventure .. a spontaneous conversation between strangers can leave a very big memory.. can alter stereotypes.. partly why I love couchsurfing

What I Can Share with Hosts

Anything I can

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Taiwan, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary, United States

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