Couchsurfing is not just a site for free travel, but a cultural exchange

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
-T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

CURRENT MISSION

Recently returned back to the US after 6 years in Vietnam and Thailand, where I met the fabulous Jessica. Got married, bought a truck bed camper and are exploring the country for our DIY honeymoon.

ABOUT ME

Yeah, it's all a game. I'm just the kind of guy who prefers to play it seriously most of the time.

I'm an eagle scout, backpacker, yogi, musician, vegetarian, actor, philosopher, WWOOFer, cyclist, and a wannabe polyglot.

Bucket List:
1. Thru Hike The Appalachian Trail
2. Peace Corps
3. WWOOF (check)
4. Become a certified yoga instructor (check)
5. Go skydiving (check)
6. Get published
7. Bike across America
8. Run a Marathon
9. Have kids

PHILOSOPHY

"Well, what if truth were a woman? What then?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The anxiety-laden problem of what will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand, or where my lap goes when I stand up."
-Alan Watts

"We do not seek truth; we seek certainty."
-Bertrand Russell

"And those of us who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music."
-Friedrich Nietzsche.

"In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and snap! The job's a game."
-Mary Poppins

Interests

Here's an uncategorized list of things I enjoy:
Making Music, Festivals, Yoga, Kirtan, Sweat Lodge Ceremonies,, Sustainable Communities, Psychology, Politics, Theology, Mythology, Drum Circles, Meditation, Philosophy, Concerts, Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, Chess, Theatre, Film, Reading, Writing, WWOOFing, Cycling, Street Improv, Urban Exploring, Rock Stacking, The Boy Scouts of America, Backpacking, Buddy Wakefield, SCUBA Diving, Palindromes, Anagrams, Not answering my cell phone

• writing
• acting
• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• vegetarian
• yoga
• marathon
• running
• instructor
• meditation
• politics
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• music
• opera
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• divinity
• medicine
• philosophy
• psychology
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Shantaram, The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, The Tao Te Ching, House of Leaves, Einstein's Dreams, David Sedaris, Italo Calvino, Of Mice and Men, Michel Foucault, Sylvia by Leonard Michaels, Faust by Goethe, Grendel by John Gardner, The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche, Jorge Luis Borges, Slaughterhouse V, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman, Haruki Murakami

Movies:
The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Upstream Color, There Will be Blood, The Squid and the Whale, Birdman, The Puffy Chair, City of God, Requiem for a Dream, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Antichrist, The Dead Poet's Society, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Me and You and Everyone We Know

Music:
Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Beirut, Akron/Family, Alt-J, Trevor Hall, Xavier Rudd, Courtney Barnett, The Microphones, Bon Iver, The Dirty Projectors, The Avett Brothers, Iron & Wine, Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, The Kings of Convenience, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, Crystal Castles, Mumford & Sons, The Shins, Grouper, Julianna Barwick, Braids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bobby, Antony and the Johnson, Bright Eyes, Jose Gonzales, Spirits of the Red City, White Rainbow

Poetry:
Buddy Wakefield, Andrea Gibson, Anis Mojgani, Gary Blankenburg

Podcasts:
This American Life, Radiolab, Planet Money, Tara Brach, Buddhist Geeks, Ted Radio Hour, BBC Global News

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Starred in a touring production of The Baltimore Rock Opera Society's Electric Pharaoh through Baltimore, DC, and Philadelphia.
Check out a video here: https://youtu.be/8oOUoqJ1_n8

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States, Viet Nam

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