CURRENT MISSION

Travel!

ABOUT ME

It's never been easy for me to describe myself, but I'll give it a shot. I'm generally pretty laid back and quite, but I can have pretty lively conversations and laugh a bit when the mood strikes me. I grew up in the countryside, where I could walk out my back door into the forest and mountains. The space and freedom this provided me still has a big impact on how I like to live my life. I like cities and feel comfortable in them, but I'm not an urbanite. A lot of my interests reflect that. When traveling I like to make an effort to see both the countryside and the cities.
I'm studying photography the University of New Mexico, but it's all ready the fourth university I've attended and I'll be adding another one this spring with a study abroad program in Xian, China. Photography offers so many possibilities and directions to take, which I think is one of the major reasons I like it, and one of the most important directions to me is its ability to affect social change.

PHILOSOPHY

As Backyard Tire Fire says "You know, something tells me that tomorrow ain't going to keep coming around for ever. I'm gonna take every last one of them I can get."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now I'm participating by surfing. When I started I attended a lot of the potlucks in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. When I return home I intend to begin hosting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been going to the monthly cs potlucks in Albuquerque and some of the Santa Fe potlucks as well since last winter. Now I'm traveling across Europe and into Asia and I'm starting to get a taste of surfing. It's great meeting all these new people.

Interests

Photography, bouldering, climbing, biking (road and mountain), caving, backpacking, traveling, learning new languages, exotic foods, teas and coffees, and a dozen other things that I'll post when they come to mind.

• photography
• traveling
• bouldering
• cycling
• backpacking
• spelunking
• surfing
• rock climbing
• languages
• study abroad
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I like good music whatever the genre, but mostly I listen to indie rock. Iron and Wine, Liam Finn, Band of Horses, Backyard Tire Fire, Mumford and Suns, The Great Lake Swimmers, The Postal Service, The Section Quartet, Vampire Weekend, Israeli rock, Bacilos, Juanes, Carlos Vives, Klee, Seeed, etc.
Recent books: The Art of War, Ender's Game, The Teachings of Don Juan, The Nimrod Flipout, A Story Like the Wind.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

As cliche as it sounds, when you realize that against all odds we're alive, most things become amazing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United States