Things I like: Exploration and the outdoors, making music, any type of game or pie, cooking, kayaking, pale ales & cocktails.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm donating sleepspace on my couch, and I'm up for hanging out with anybody who wants to visit DC!

Interests

• cooking
• cocktails
• music
• outdoor activities
• kayaking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Kerouac, Saint-Exupéry, Camus, Tolkien, Robbins, Dostoevsky, Garcia Marquez, Calvino.

Music: Alt-J, Old Crow Medicine Show, Modest Mouse, Frightened Rabbit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Smashing Pumpkins, Nick Drake, Yann Tiersen, The Beatles, The Flaming Lips, Beethoven, Paul Simon, Sigur Ros, Debussy, Bob Dylan, Charles Mingus, David Bowie, Van Morrison, Sam Cooke, Talking Heads, ... et al.

Movies: Kubrick, Tarantino, Nolan, Cuarón, Coppola(s), Refn, Coen(s), Leone, Mendes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once got free room and board for swimming to the bottom of a Croatian harbor to retrieve a lost anchor.

Teach, Learn, Share

I used to teach music and I'm pretty awesome at making spreadsheets and cocktails. I'll teach you all of the above in exchange for cooking lessons.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, Japan, Mexico, Serbia, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

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