I live fairly close to Berkeley. I've just written a 350 page anthropological book about a place in northern California, and am developing an online free CC university (which is accrediting on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and is also a wiki (like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages). I like to travel and meet people! You can read more about my book here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook & https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) - as well as my interests and research on my homepage - http://www.scottmacleod.com.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Visiting people is my favorite way to travel and visit people and places! There is nothing better, more fun and interesting than being a guest in a local resident’s home, for instance – in Paris. And this way of great value accommodation can be practiced everywhere – in Europe as well as Asia, America, and island nations. I want to feel the real atmosphere of places I visit!

Interests

Online highest quality free education (http://worlduniversityandschool.org and in a new wiki http://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org), music (I play the Scottish Small Pipes - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm), studying the Internet (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) and anthropology and languages.

• books
• education
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• anthropology
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I like the Grateful Dead, Raga, J.S. Bach and music from the '60s

I like the film Diva

Currently enjoying "Envelope Poems" by Emily Dickinson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in California, Oregon and Washington for about 5 months total (about 2/3rds of its ~2600 miles).

Teach, Learn, Share

Open, free, CC-4 best STEM and Humanities OCW-centric wiki World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music - I often travel with my Scottish small pipes. Ideas about sharing free CC online education and especially free planned university and high school degrees in many languages, Good cheer, Friendship

Countries I’ve Visited

India, Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Scotland