CURRENT MISSION

Currently trying to find out what it is to be an American: what is this country, who are these people, and what is my connection to them. I'm going to be a ramblin' around these states for a little bit.

ABOUT ME

I'm still very much working out the details of who I am. I'm not hard pressed for a desk job right now. my immediate goals currently do not span more than a few months at a time and I am very comfortable with that. I love people and I think there is an incredible beauty in the range that we differ with each other. I love political/religious/spiritual/anything-not-comfortable conversation because i think that it reveals something profound in a person's personality and builds bonds between people in spite of their differing ideologies. i often find that this is a superior path than the more genial types of american-speak that appeal more to congeniality. I am also soft spoken and apt to observation. My mother was an artist and she instilled in me early a need to observe everything outside of myself. also, i like puppies.

PHILOSOPHY

"Our battered suitcases were were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i dig this new push to be grass roots and to build global communities in ways that are typical of traditional globalizing agents but which contradict, what I see, as their defunct morale. From the little that i currently know about this site and its goals, i put forth my participation in the current of a similar goal/ideology.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none...yet. Some people have stayed at my old place but I always seemed to be gone when they were there.

Interests

I love reading, movies, and going to museums. I play the guitar (not well) and I love talking to random people. I like spreading myself out and experiencing things that other people don't get to do.

• beauty
• working out
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• guitar
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I always go through vases with books. Right now I'm into Kurt Vonnegut, scattered with some Dostoevsky and Steinbeck. I just finished the Harry Potter series and loved it.
Movies change.
to be honest, i like indy films but i also am prone to watching an occasional 'romantic comedy'

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There have been to many. the framework for all of them could be explained by an instance i had in Venezuela. I spent the day with some other travelers doing touristy stuff. at the end of the day we came across some fisherman on the beach. they were drinking rum and having a good-ol-time. they passed around the bottle and that continued for many hours. fun, new friends, and rum!

Teach, Learn, Share

make sure to pack light
knowing that the road abides
bring some super-glue

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Guyana, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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