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!

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