I like to travel and I don't mind doing it on the cheap. On the more extreme end of things, I once binned a bunch of cans of expired chili from the back of a Dollar Tree and it fed me for a week while I was driving across the states.

If eating cold garbage chili and sleeping in car is what it takes to get me to the stars in Death Valley, late night chats in Nevada, or midnight strolls through New Orleans's cemeteries - I'd say it's worth it.

Life's too short for any of us to spend worrying about the small stuff. I spent all of my adolescence petrified of fucking it up. Now I aim for what I love and try not to worry too much about the rest of it. :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I say, "yo" a lot. But I am Chinese.

It is embarrassing.

If you meet me, I may initially appear normal, and then devolve into an incoherent mass of bad foreign accent impressions, off-color jokes, and swearing like a trucker if I get amped about something exciting. I would like to extend my sincere apologies and/or chuffed boasting in advance.

Right now my extra room is a chaotic art studio so no dice on hosting, but I do occasionally meet up with people for day outings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Haven't couchsurfed via this site, but have traveled and stayed at houses of people I had just met, if that counts.

I once stayed in a New Orleans voodoo house/ crackshack, in which I was greeted in the middle of the night by a drunk fellow. I suppose he had a key for the chain lock on the old barn-style front doors, or perhaps the lock had been loose. Surprised to see me, he introduced himself - inquired as to my name, asked how I was doing... and then proceeded to replay the whole encounter from the top as though it had never happened.

On the opposite side of things, I've been lucky enough to have also stayed in extremely upscale residences and dined in yacht clubs. Life is strange. (Please don't ask me which fork is for what though - I still don't know!)

Interests

I'm a big fan of laughing, drawing, painting, singing Disney songs, speeding through the desert, and meeting new people.

Not to turn you off from hosting me or anything, but it has been a long held dream of mine to be able to keep an online photo catalog of all of the roadkill I encounter on my journey... complete with photograph and GPS coordinates.

So far the people I have traveled with have found it too odd or too time-consuming a task to allow me to undertake.

...They do not understand fine art.

• arts
• singing
• design
• photography
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• burning man
• cheap eats
• being alive
• body painting
• awkward conversation
• accidentally being a dick about religion
• being a house hermit
• ultraviolet painting

Music, Movies, and Books

I generally like my movies dumb and my books smart.

Fantastic Mr. Fox / Be Kind Rewind / Brief Interviews With Hideous Men / Spy / Grand Budapest Hotel / Kung Fury

Coldplay / Beck / Meshuggah / Moses Hightower / Fleet Foxes / Iron and Wine / Blues & Jazz standards / Modest Mouse / Cake / Our Lady Peace

Dune / The Little Prince / Old Goriot / That John Updike guy is the shit!!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm pretty pleased with myself every time I finish a painting?

I almost was trampled by a Bufallo in the States while taking a photo. The photo is my pride and joy... the lack of concern for safe distances to wildlife however - that is my shame.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's make AAAARRRRRRRRRT!!!! Seriously though, I teach painting.

I can also tell you where all the cheapest places to eat in Vancouver's Chinatown are.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can draw you a bad cartoon of what you would look like if you were a pineapple.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada