CURRENT MISSION

To travel and experience the parts of the world that I have not yet

ABOUT ME

I am getting ready to head back to school and finish my degree in Information Assurance and Security(ethical hacking) after a VERY long break. I am a record collector, somewhat of a technophile, love tinkering with things, and enjoy pointless wandering.

PHILOSOPHY

To grow in Love throughout life

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I spent about a year traveling the U.S. by motorcycle and visiting friends. I stayed with 4 or 5 awesome people during my travels. I have been unable to host but I now have an apartment all to myself(until April 2013) in Chicago and would like to open it up to people passing through. You can also hit me up if you want to get coffee, drinks, need a tour guide for the day(lived here for about 5 years), want to go on a bike ride, or want to buy me records ;)...just kidding.

I currently work two jobs from my house and kind of make my own schedule. I wanted to take advantage of the time I have now to host because I will be headed back to school soon and may not have as much free time as I do now.

Hopefully I will be moving to Colorado around June of 2013 after a couple months of traveling and will be able to host there too.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been in Chicago for the last year and a few months and I am finally(for the first time in a long time) able to host people. I have couchsurfed quite a bit and hosted a fair amount in the past in conjunction with a few of my room mates. I have had nothing but great experiences and I have met some very cool, generous, and hospitable people in my travels...I have also had the pleasure of hosting quite a few too.

Interests

Music(making and listening to), nostalgia occasionally(when it is good),small little cafes with interesting artwork and oddities, Soccer, riding bikes, diving through bins of records, getting away from the city, finding really cool discarded stuff in alleys, and on and on and on.

• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• scuba diving
• soccer
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Musica: Mum, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Brahms, Ceu, Federico Aubele, Hector Lavoe, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, Jarabe de Palo, John Coltrane, Audioslave, The White Stripes, Dennis Brown, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Manu Chao, Ojos de Brujo, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Sia, Santana, Sublime, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Andres Segovia, Andres Calamaro, DeVotchka, Gogol Bordello, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Robert Johnson, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Over the Rhine, Radiohead, Saint Saens, Eric Satie, Wilco, Al Green, Cafe Tacuba, Caetano Veloso........

Books:George Orwell, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Angela's Ashes, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Duino Elegies, Flannery O'Connor, Harry Potter, Letters to a Young Poet, Lord Byron, Manalive, Night, On the Road, The Amber Spyglass, The Awakening, The Crucible, The Golden Compass, The Scarlet Letter, The Sinners Guide to the Evangelical Right, The World as I See It, Till We Have Faces, Walking on Water, Identity, The Farewell Waltz, Veronika Decides to Die, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Old Man and the Sea, The Constant Gardener, The Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara, Narcissus and Goldmund, Journey to the East, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, Pablo Neruda, Mirrors of the Soul, The Prophet, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Borne Identity, The Bible, Federico García Lorca, La vida es sueño, Atlas Shrugged, Les Miserables, Crime and Punishment, The Master and Margarita

Movies: The Ninth Gate, Sherlock Holmes, Inglorious Basterds, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, El Cantante, A Beautiful Mind, August Rush, Batman Begins, The Bourne Supremacy, Braveheart, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Chungking Express, Crash, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dead Poets Society, Driven, Dumb and Dumber, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The House of Flying Daggers, Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Frida, Gladiator, Good Will Hunting, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hero, Hitman, The Hurricane, I am legend, Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2, Little Miss Sunshine, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Luther, Newsies, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Office Space, Rain Man, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Golden Compass, The Italian Job, The Simpsons Movie, What Dreams May Come, Y Tu Mama Tambien, La mujer de mi hermano, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Crank 1, Crank 2, The Sea Inside, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, C.R.A.Z.Y., Withnail and I, Elegy, Camille Claudel, The Science of Sleep, Naked Lunch, City of God, Persepolis, Léolo, Days and Clouds, Lucia Y Sexo, Juno, The Spanish Apartment, The secret window, Pirates of the Caribbean, Aviator, Food of Love

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Life is pretty amazing in general but I have stood on the very edge of the Grand Canyon with no fence to stop me from falling and took a pretty sweet road trip through Texas and New Mexico two summers ago...if you have never driven through West Texas and New Mexico they are pretty surreal.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States