CURRENT MISSION

I would like to meet more people involved in the CS community in Philadelphia, host some people, and stay with amazing people on upcoming journeys.

ABOUT ME

I, like many people, find it impossible to adequately fill out self summaries or even attempt to represent myself through a static profile. This is my resume and you should take it with a grain of salt. I am always changing and not the same person today that I was yesterday. I could write 1,000 profiles and they would all describe me and yet somehow not describe me at all. We could use some adjectives to describe me though. I am a thinker, adventurer, philosopher, teacher, skeptic, social critic, student, writer, polyamorous, transhumanist world traveler. I am a cosmopolitan urbanite, an intellectual, a post-modern radical that pushes the envelope and smiles when the chains of ancient traditions and morals are swept away by the current of an ever changing world. Yet, I am a man of the wild. I spend extensive amounts of time in the backcountry, exploring, learning, being, growing, forgetting and remembering. I can be both high tech and minimalist. You could find me engaged in long term computer projects or scientific endeavors. You might also find me on the peaks of mountains reading Lao Tzu in the refuge of a snow shelter. I love being outside and everything to do with being active. I love adventure and being part of the land and the ecosystem. I also love being in a rational, progressive modern world full of knowledge and opportunity. I know there is a way to make this contradiction a compliment. I hope to meet people who are truly open to truth, beauty, ideas, adventure, nature and intellectual pursuit. There is so much to see, so much to experience, so much to learn, teach and share.

PHILOSOPHY

To live is to grow and experience that which makes us uncomfortable and challenged. In our comfort zones we will never self-actualize.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to meet more people involved in the CS community in Philadelphia, host some people, and stay with amazing people on upcoming journeys.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been to CS gatherings and stayed with a few people on my cross country trip back in 2014.

Interests

Mountain Biking, Long Distance urban or cross-country biking, Hiking, Chillin' in Parks, nutrition/health and wellness, Discussing philosophy and other mind expanding conversation, Learning as much as possible, Good books, Poetry, Writing in various forms (Novel, essay, Poem), Meeting new people, Mass Transit and car free spaces, Museums and institutions of high culture, theater, Movie houses, psychological thrillers, Dancing in various forms to various types of music, complex architecture, city planning and urban design, social experiments, fine wine, Art and Art Parties, Spirituality/Yoga/Meditation, playing in the snow, mountain climbing, bouldering

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• architecture
• design
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• yoga
• instructor
• meditation
• partying
• politics
• reading
• bouldering
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• adventure races
• martial arts
• rock climbing
• cartography
• teaching
• history
• mathematics
• philosophy
• science
• tourism
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Jacobs Ladder, Fight Club, I Heart Huckabees, Vanilla Sky, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, The Underworld Trilogy, Stay, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, Shawshank Redemption, The Big Lebowski, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Silent Hill, THX 1138, Fearless, Once Upon a Time in China, Iron Monkey, A Better Tomorrow, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Karas: The Prophecy, The Last of the Mahicans, What Dreams May Come, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, V For Vendetta, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Books: 1984, Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to Long Term World Travel, World Made By Hand, The Tracker, The Stranger, Fast Food Nation, Maximum City, The Suburbanization of New York City, Tom Sawyer, Lord of the Flies, 40 Tales of Taoist Immortals, I Am Jackie Chan, The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Human Consciousness, Journey of Souls, Animal Farm, Behind the Urals, Guns Germs and Steel, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, Fight Club, Gulliver's Travels, Basic Writings of Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, The Bhagavad Gita

Music: God Module, Panic Lift, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Beborn Beton, Lacuna Coil, Sins of Thy Beloved, Sirenia, Tristania, Xandria, 18 Summers, Xentrifuge, Tapping the Vein, Drug Zone, Behind the Scenes, The Cruxshadows, The Prodigy, Anders Manga, Psyclon Nine, In Strict Confidence, Penumbra, VNV Nation, Grendel, Modest Mouse, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Clan of Xymox, London After Midnight, Thievery Corporation, The Azoic, Unheilig, Das Ich, Omega Lithium, Switchblade Symphony, Razed in Black, Inkubus Sukkubus, Paul Oakenfold, Bauhaus, Rheas Obsession, VAST, Draconian, Lacrimas Profundere, Collide, The Cranberries, The Smiths, Diary of Dreams, Eyes of Eden, Five Finger Death Punch, Otep, Walls of Jericho, Fear Factory, Spineshank, In Flames, Katatonia, Muse, Nightwish, Nox Arcana, A Perfect Circle, Tool, The Pixies, Radiohead, System of a Down, Stone Temple Pilots, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam, Within Temptation, Wolfsheim, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers...Theres a bunch more I listen too and alot more I would like that I haven't heard yet

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have swam in the Dead Sea and skipped rocks on the Sea of Galilee.
I've danced from dusk until dawn around a sacred fire.
I have climbed many peaks and backpacked on the Continental Divide.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know alot about history, politics, literature, film, art, music, philosophy, food and wine, nutrition and lots of other topics. I was a math and science teacher. I know a few styles of Martial Arts and was an instructor. and I'm good at reading maps and finding my way when I'm lost. I am a wilderness/nature guide and always interested in sharing/exchanging knowledge about the natural world. I have a lot to teach and so much more to learn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Israel, Puerto Rico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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