CURRENT MISSION:
Living to learn // learning to live. Hardcore reader and writer.

ABOUT ME
I was born and raised at my family's small business, a liquor store on the Jersey Shore. As such, I spent a lot of my childhood pricing bottles, stocking shelves, cleaning the store and clerking customers.

I've always been interested in computers, technology and the internet. In college I studied English (language, literature and creative writing) and Earth Systems (environmental science). For a while I was enthusiastic about environmental law, but ultimately decided that law school wasn't for me.

I live in an RV named Sputnik that sits on the back of my yellow Ford F-250. I'm outside all day every day.

I don't use social media and I don't have a smartphone. I love my flip phone.

My profile here is a bit out of date, but you can see some (slightly) more recent photos on my personal website: billloundy.com

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I used to work at Couchsurfing and I still think it's one of the most interesting things happening on the internet. Certainly a whole lot more exciting than social media.

Interests

I regularly run and practice yoga and meditation. I also love being outdoors: biking, long motorcycle trips, hiking. I'm definitely a barefoot enthusiast and have been running sans-shoes for almost a decade. And rock-climbing.

• writing
• literature
• cooking
• fitness
• yoga
• running
• partying
• shopping
• technology
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• business
• teaching
• law
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Here's what I've read so far in 2019:

Fever Dream, Stefanie Shweblin
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Jazz, Toni Morrison
An Initiation into the World of Lucid Dreaming, Darien Simon, M.S.
Call Them By Their True Names, Rebecca Solnit
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
The Best American Essays 2016, Edited by Jonathan Franzen
Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
Walks with Men, Ann Beattie
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck

This is from my old profile, written several years ago (and really cracks me up now):
I'm really into lost generation and beat writers, poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Jeffers, Whitman and Blake. I've been passing great poetry back and forth via email with friends for most of my life. I wish I had more time to spend with heavier stuff - Eliot/Faulkner - but these days I'm happy to get through the New Yorker on a weekly basis.*

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have traveled around with a remote tribe of indigenous Australians.

I used to live on a sailboat and for a while I worked as a dairyman in rural Vermont.

Now I live on an RV! #vanlife minus the hashtag: I don't use social media or a smartphone.

Teach, Learn, Share

Books, ideas and fun.

What I Can Share with Hosts

The best gifts are always a surprise!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Greece, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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