CURRENT MISSION

Explore the world and save wildlife!

ABOUT ME

I work on large-landscape conservation issues including the protection and connectivity of habitat, recovering endangered wildlife like mountain caribou, and sustainable living and co-existence with animals. If you want to learn more about my work, go to www.y2y.net/

I am a friendly, easy-going and communicative person with a great love for good food, good friends, and good conversation.

PHILOSOPHY

Always be Learning.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I joined couchsurfing back in 2006 and it changed my life, met so many amazing people both hosting and surfing.

Stayed with some damn good guys in Glasgow and an amazing family in Inverness, and later their son in Edinburgh. Was brought to a wicked underground party in London and drank some damn good beer in Belgium, then a picnic behind Notre Dame in Paris. Wow. I am really enthralled by the generosity of the people in this community.

I've really enjoyed hosting too, being able to show travelers the same generosity and hospitality, as well as sharing local knowledge, I saw when I am backpacking. I got to host some wonderful people in the places I have lived in Canada, and look forward to more!

Interests

travel, music, art, history, literature and sport. I love sailing, skiing, ice hockey, rugby, football, windsurfing.

I love the outdoors, spend a lot of time in mountains, on beaches, on the sea. I co-own a small sailboat with my brother and love exploring the wild coast of BC.

• animals
• arts
• literature
• beer
• picnic
• partying
• traveling
• music
• windsurfing
• sailing
• skiing
• sports
• soccer
• hockey
• rugby
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

I like jazz, classic rock, hiphop, indie and triphop. Pearl Jam, Radiohead, The Tragically Hip, The Decemberists, Sam Roberts, Miles Davis, Broken Social Scene Atmosphere, Massive Attack, Fleetwood Mac. The list goes on... Read Kerouac, Tolkien, Buchan, Salinger, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, and many more.

Current favorites: Puckoon by Spike Milligan, A Fine Balance by Rohintin Mistry

all time: Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, The Hobbit by Tolkien, Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, 39 Steps by John Buchan, The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K LeGuin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Tending sheep in the Outer Hebrides, the velvet night sky in the Sahara, learning lost tales from a Druid in Welsh forests, Midnight Yell at Texas A&M, northern lights in the Muskwa-Kechika wildernes...all the amazing people I've met along the road.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'd love to discuss conservation, environment, and sustainability, and especially collective action and changing the world for the better!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ireland

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