CURRENT MISSION

See a cuckoo on a choo choo

ABOUT ME

I am a self-employed cartographer. Most of my weekends are spent at Renaissance faires and various art shows. I live in rural Wisconsin with my beautiful wife and many animals.

PHILOSOPHY

Love one another.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
With malice toward none, with charity toward all...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've surfed only a couple of times. Our house is open to guests, although we live out in the country and I doubt if many surfers will make it this way!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The Windy City

Interests

Mapmaking, Travel, Board Games, Sports, Nature, History, Geography, Sacred Music, Books, The Three Stooges, Fresh Fruit, Natural and Organic Food.

• animals
• arts
• books
• dining
• organic food
• board games
• traveling
• music
• sports
• rock climbing
• cartography
• geography
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Mostly classics. Here are my Top 20 Favourites:
1.Twelve Angry Men
2.The Lion in Winter
3.The Seventh Seal
4.First Knight
5.It Happened One Night
6.Witness for the Prosecution
7.Lawrence of Arabia
8.The Ten Commandments
9.Stalag 17
10.A Man For All Seasons
11.Spartacus
12.The Adventures of Robin Hood
14.Eight Men Out
15.The Great Escape
16.The Last Samurai
17.Quiz Show
18.Amadeus
19.Some Like It Hot
20.Double Indemnity

Favourite Actors:
1.Edward G. Robinson
2.Charles Laughton
3.James Cagney
4.William Holden
5.Basil Rathbone
6.Peter O'Toole
7.Anthony Hopkins
8.Paul Scofield
9.Peter Ustinov
10.Sir Laurence Olivier

Books: Non-fiction or classics! My favourite fiction works are:
1.Treasure Island
2.The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates.
3.Kidnapped, Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour; in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called; written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
4.The Prince and the Pauper
5.The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Music: Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Chant, Sacred Music, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical. Folk Metal.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing Ben Nevis (the U.K.'s highest mountain) was probably the highlight of my travels so far...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States