CURRENT MISSION

Welcome uncertainty.

ABOUT ME

Plane pilot and diplomat devoted to healthy life, play and competition, poetry, gardening, eating directly from the garden, participating in where I am, with whom I am, striving to understand why I am, and how to be. Father of 2 young men. Grandfather of 3, too.

PHILOSOPHY

Presence, here now. Stay open, engaged.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Attend local events. Surfed in The Netherlands. Hosted fellow travelers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Tent Surf in Colorado, June 09. Couch Surf in Netherlands with excellent Dutch hosts. Hosted Frysians when they came to Denver for a weekend. Hosted fellow travelers from other parts of the U.S.

Interests

Individuals and their people groups, literature, foody, flying, writing, gardening, hiking, resource husbandry (taking no more from the environment than is reasonable and figuring out how to use less)...

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• environment
• flying
• gardening
• hiking
• unmanned aircraft systems

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Citizen Kane. All That Jazz. Babel.
Music: All minus Heavy Country and Heavy Metal
Books: Shakespeare, Cervantes, James Joyce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cornac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver, Basho, Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Miguel de Unamuno, Life of Pi, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Landed on aircraft carrier more than few times, many of those times at night.

Teach, Learn, Share

Discuss: Who is the United States? Who are we as Americans? Why do we behave on the international stage as a nation and as individuals the way we do?

Fun places to hike in Colorado.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Conversation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Djibouti, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, Bahrain, Honduras, Kuwait, United States

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