CURRENT MISSION

Anything that rails against boredom.

ABOUT ME

It's up to me to fill my time with things that keep me motivated; traveling and farming are my main goals. After I graduated I went on a road trip through most of the U.S. and parts of Canada. After that I went to three organic farms, two in New Mexico and one in Tennessee. While farming, I fell in love with the desert, and now I live in Santa Fe.

PHILOSOPHY

"But even Solomon, he says, 'the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.' Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness." -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

"No sooner had diminutive and bright-hued birds with dulcet tongues greeted in sweet, mellifluos harmony the advent of rosy dawn, who, forsaking the soft couch of her zealous consort, revealed herself to mortals through the doors and balconies of the Machegan horizon, than the famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, abandoning the downy bed of idleness, mounted his famous steed, Rocinante, and commenced to ride through the ancient and illustrious countryside of Montiel." Cervantes, Don Quixote

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only had great experiences with CS. The community seems to be pretty self-selecting, and I've gotten a lot of help from a lot of people through CS.

Interests

I love organic farming, and I love traveling to the farms. My ultimate goal is to become a teacher and to have land and a farm where I can spend my time doing mostly whatever the hell I want.

• birds
• partying
• traveling
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Moby Dick, Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, The Sound and The Fury, Twain, Whitman, James Wright, Rilke, WC Williams-Bon Iver, Tallest Man on Earth, Talking Heads, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Jackson Browne, Joanna Newsom, Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, DM Stith

Teach, Learn, Share

"And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys." Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States