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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

People have been kind to me in my travels and offered hospitality, so I wish to do the same for others. I like meeting people, especially those from other countries and cultures. My wife and I have stayed with couch surfers in France and Vermont, and have hosted couch surfers 12 times so far. We love it!

Interests

• coffee
• yoga
• meditation
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• biking
• craft beer
• ethnic food
• meet new people
• crossword puzzles
• vw bus
• vintage cars
• mandolin
• winemaking
• grateful dead
• hiking in the mountains
• cloud watching

Music, Movies, and Books

Grateful Dead, jam bands, folk, NRPS Blues Project, Goose, Phil and Friends, Joe Russo, Merle haggard, Buck Owens, Emmy Lou Harris, British Isles/Irish old folk like Fairport Convention, Traffic, Steel Eye Span, John Prime, Hot Tuna, Dolores Keane.

Fiction: Lord of the Rings, Islandia, The Last Temptation of Christ, Gormangast Trilogy, Dharma Bums, Razor's Edge, Ship of Fools, The Stand, Sherlock Holmes, Dickens. Non-fiction: WWII, spirituality, Thich Nhat Hahn, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Lama Yeshe, Ram Dass

Movies: Apocalypse Now, Ship of Fools, The Red Shoes, Platoon, The Mouse That Roared, James Bond, Alfred Hitchcock, The Court Jester, Best of Show, The Guns of Navarrone, The Magnificent Seven, The Grateful Dead Movie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I graduated high school at 17 1/2, and took off for adventures overseas. I hitchhiked all over Australia, New Zealand and Asia, and lived in a Buddhist Monastery in Laos for 4 months in 1974. I rode on the tops of trains in India.

Teach, Learn, Share

Gardening, tree pruning, basic Spanish, basic guitar, vipassana meditation, identifying old cars

What I Can Share with Hosts

Gardening advice, stories of my youthful adventures, dishwashing

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, France, Germany, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Laos, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States