CURRENT MISSION

Leave it better than you found it.

ABOUT ME

Grew up all over Wisconsin (splitting time between a family farm and Milwaukee). Went to college in the middle of Iowa and learned a ton. Now I am spending the next stage of my life traveling as much as possible before some nice town/job finally grabs me and forces me to settle down.

I like exploring. This includes the traditional going to new cities, but also exploring new neighborhoods, dirt roads, abandoned buildings, dive bars, crazy jobs, etc. This left me with a wide range of experiences, mostly involving the Midwest and South.

PHILOSOPHY

I still haven't nailed down a personal philosophy. I suppose I take Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic (that all organisms and ecological communities have basic rights to exist) and apply it to a lot (stories, architecture, local traditions, etc). Basically, I am a conservationist who has moved beyond biology.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Still new to it, but I've Couchsurfed in Phoenix and Raleigh. The house in Phoenix really saved my butt since I ended up not getting a lease in the city right away.

Interests

Environmentalism, food, reading, relaxing, local histories, making good/drinkable beer, biking, opposing "the man".

• architecture
• dining
• breakfast
• beer
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• biology
• law
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Way to many books to list. Right now I am reading "The Time Regulation Institute."

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've performed surgery on a live bull shark.

Teach, Learn, Share

"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth the cost in natural things, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. The wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of where they come from and how they live. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a ...law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not."
-Aldo Leopold, badass

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