CURRENT MISSION

To become the first President of the Federation of Antarctic Research Stations

ABOUT ME

US Expat. Split my time between Antarctica and Italy. Heaps of traveling in between. Married to an Italiana from Milano.

PHILOSOPHY

If it's not broken, don't fix it.(though,I find myself breaking things so I can fix them)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Too long to list, really. My favorite couch surfing experiences are with US Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, though. Great hosts; great parties.

Interests

Doing things that scare the shit out of me: Snowboarding, Sailing, Hiking, Climbing, Moto, etc. Anything to do with international trade during the medieval period particularly the spice trade. Archaeology.

• partying
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie: Down by Law, Jim Jarmush.
Book: Journey to the End of the Night, Ferdinand Celine.
Music: Manu Chao

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Antarctic.

Teach, Learn, Share

I once picked up a guy hitchhiking because he was standing there with a guitar case. Nice guy. We had been chatting for an hour or so when I asked him wat kind of music he plays. He said, "What?". "The guitar", I said. "Oh that's just a case", he replied, "It's full of my stuff. I just carry it around to get rides; you never know when someone might stop to pick me up thinking I'm John Denver or somthing."

About a year later I found a french horn case on the streets of Portland, Oregon. At the time, I had just wrecked my car and was hitchhiking to work everyday from Sandy to Mt Hood. I remembered the guy with the guitar case and picked it up thinking it might help my cause. I tried it a couple of times but didn't work too well. I think it kind of freaked people out to see a french horn player hitchhiking. Plus it was cumbersome and irregularly shaped and I couldn't fit much in it. Eventually I had to let it go.

Lesson to be learned: if you want someone to think you are John Denver, don't hitchhike with a french horn case.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Botswana, Canada, China, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Antarctica, Italy, United States, Zambia