Over the last 7 years I've lived in Los Angeles, Brussels, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, Brno, & Orange County. I played professional American football in Brussels for 3 seasons before moving back to California in mid-2010. I moved back to Brussels in April 2013 and I plan to stay here for a while. : )

I think the best way to live is to acknowledge that life is short, and although it's important to plan for the future we must also learn to appreciate and enjoy the present and the great moments that it provides us. The better you are at this, the more likely you'll be able to extract joy from life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting people while I'm traveling, so naturally I also enjoy meeting people who are traveling while I'm not. I enjoy meeting travelers because I feel like we share a similar mindset and outlook on life - that you only live once and you might as well get out there and see as much of the world while you can. My experiences with Couchsurfing have been great up to this point, and I'm looking forward to meeting more people like myself who have a passion for travel and for sharing new experiences.

Interests

General: Sports, Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Pool, movies, traveling, reading, writing, history, seeing new cities for the first time, working out, Mexican food, sushi, NFL, music, languages.

Favorite Places: Barcelona, Valencia, Rome, San Marino, Waikiki, Kauai, Lisbon, Waikoloa, Jerusalem, Monaco, Irvine, Washington, D.C., New York City, San Sebastian, Granada, Porto, Bruges, Brussels, Cordoba, Cadiz, Hvar, Ljubljana, Edinburgh, and Vienna.

• writing
• running of the bulls
• dining
• mexican food
• running
• working out
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• socializing
• music
• sports
• baseball
• basketball
• american football
• soccer
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Elizabethtown, Inception, Wicker Park, Drive, The Fountain, Up in the Air, The Bourne Trilogy, The Matrix, Haywire, Fight Club, Zero Dark Thirty, Collateral, Serenity, Enemy at the Gates, The Ninth Gate, Last Man Standing, The Chronicles of Riddick, A Knight's Tale, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Gladiator, Interstellar.

Directors: Cameron Crowe, Christopher Nolan, Michael Mann, Paul McGuigan, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, J.J. Abrams, Michael Moore, Darren Aronofsky, James Cameron, Brian Helgeland, David Twohy, Paul Greengrass, Zack Snyder.

Music: Acceptance, The Academy Is, A.F.I., All-American Rejects, Anberlin, The Ataris, Brand New, Coldplay, Copeland, Counterfit, Dashboard Confessional, The Dangerous Summer, Death Cab for Cutie, Default, Finch, Foo Fighters, The Format, Further Seems Forever, The Get-Up Kids, Harvey Danger, Hidden in Plain View, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana Theory, Kenna, Linkin Park, Mae, Mayday Parade, Matchbook Romance, Name Taken, Noise Ratchet, Palisade, Panic! at the Disco, The Postal Service, Pvris, Saves The Day, Slow Coming Day, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Stairwell, Taking Back Sunday, Teddy Geiger, This Providence, Thrice, Thursday, Travis.

Books: East of Eden, Moneyball, Atlas Shrugged, Bleachers, The Millionaire Next Door, Reciprocity Incorporated, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Audacity of Hope, A Call To Service, Next Man Up, The Book of Laughter & Forgetting, Neither Here Nor There, Playing For Pizza.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been to the Running of the Bulls, swam in the Dead Sea, danced with Israeli soldiers at the Western Wall, officiated a wedding, traveled to 4 different continents, lived in 5 different countries, and much more.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Czech Republic, Israel, Spain, United States

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