CURRENT MISSION

Make music/ travel/ keep it together

ABOUT ME

Well, dang.

The main source of joy in my life is tramping around the world, and playing music. I like folksy acoustic tunes, though just rediscovered the joys of amplification. Long distance bicycling is my new preferred method of travel.

I'm opinionated, an environmentalist, and a scientist, but mostly am just fascinated with people. Their victories and defeats, joys and fears. I like to get to know people when possible, and really love the feeling of being empathized with.

PHILOSOPHY

The hardest thing in life is to make your emotional self catch up to your reason.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted a bunch of people at my apt. in NYC city over the 3 years I lived there, and have benefited many times from others letting me crash, so I figured I should get on the CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Unofficial couch and lawn surfing all over north america, especially

Interests

Music
Beer Brewing
Biking
Hitchhiking
Environmentalism
Travel (of course)
Backpacking
Reading
Human Being

• beer
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• teaching
• physics
• science
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Shakey Graves, Tallest Man on Earth, Jeffrey Lewis, Alt-J, Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire to Flames, Godspeed You! Black Emperor (anything Constellation), Bowerbirds, Devendra Banhart, Frédéric Chopin, Starlight Mints, Bon Iver, Jolie Holland, Ion Dissonance, J.S. Bach, Squarepusher

Movies:
Waking Life, The Fountain, The Man Who Wasn't There, Donnie Darko, Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Books:
Steppenwolfe, Nausea, House of Leaves, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, White Noise

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hitchhiked from Fairbanks, Alaska to Montreal, meeting the mot amazing people of my life.

Now I am about to relocate to Germany, but to do it will be biking across a good chunk of Europe.

Teach, Learn, Share

My biggest "extra curriculars" are brewing, biking, and playing music. I also know a good amount about physics, though a lot of the time, I'd rather not think about this when my arm isn't being twisted by a twisted professor.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Nicaragua, Peru, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States