CURRENT MISSION

A few years in Baltimore, then off to DC in a few months.

ABOUT ME

I enjoy skiing, camping, rugby, slack-lining, meeting new people and traveling the world (probably like you!)
Minnesota is my home, I have two brothers and am an emergency medicine resident doc in Baltimore.

PHILOSOPHY

Be the trouble you wish to see in the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I "retroactively" surfed with Olivier to start off my CS experience in 2010. I met him a week earlier in Palm Springs, CA at a medical student internship and told him I was going to Montreal. He offered to let me stay with him and now I've visited him in Montreal 5 times! I joined CS after his recommendation and have had fun since! I love CS for the ability to go explore the world and to bring the world to me when I am not out on the trail!

Interests

I love this quote: "don't ask what the world needs. ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Things that make me come alive are the things that interest me and keep me going.

• traveling
• camping
• skiing
• rugby
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Recently read: Great Gatsby, Bridge to Terabithia, Orphan Train, The Light Between Oceans, The Signal in the Noise, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The Giver, Hong Kong, Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here

As of 1/19/19, these were the last movies I have watched:
The Martian
About Time
A quiet Place
Love, Simon
A Star is Born
Forgetting Sarah Marshall

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Impersonated a celebrity in LA and took pictures and signed autographs for 100s of people for ~30 minutes

Teach, Learn, Share

I am pretty good with constellations, so I can teach you a bit about what is going on up there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Lesotho, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Panama, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Swaziland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, United States