CURRENT MISSION

My current mission with regard to couch surfing is to find a place in Paris to crash over night en route to Madagascar

My travel goals:
travel to additional venues on my bucket list
photograph every order of birds in the world - 3 to go.
see a pangolin

My current life interests are photography, evolution, natural history, viruses, etc

ABOUT ME

Here is way too much information about me:
http://www.stanford.edu/~siegelr/

In terms of photography, check out
http://www.stanford.edu/~siegelr/photo.html

PHILOSOPHY

forget the afterlife - this is it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In terms of CouchSurfing, I couch surfed my way across Tasmania and met some truly remarkable and generous people. CS really worked! Satisfyingly, I have stayed in touch with all of my Tasmanian hosts. Subsequently, I couch surfed in Western Australia and met another really amazing host.

Interests

photography, international development, medicine, natural history, mushrooms, plants, wildlife, viruses, hiking, infectious disease, darwin -->teaching, learning, telling stories,

• wildlife
• birds
• photography
• traveling
• hiking
• surfing
• ecology
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

currently reading Sapiens and enjoying it immensely

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have traveled widely:
http://www.stanford.edu/~siegelr/travelblurb.html
eg crocodile cage diving in Zimbabwe, shark cage diving in South Africa

Teach, Learn, Share

infectious disease, virology, darwin, photography, international development, medicine, ecology, natural history

Classes I am teaching at Stanford this spring
Photographing Nature
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Island Biogeography of Madagascar

What I Can Share with Hosts

stories! pictures!

Countries I’ve Visited

Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Fiji, France, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Rwanda, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, England, France, South Africa, United States