I live in San Francisco and I'm currently on a work sabbatical and traveling around Europe with my bicycle. I was recently in Northern Italy for 2 weeks cycling around the Italian Alps.

I enjoy talking to new people, laughing with others and at myself. I enjoy studying Italian, I loved living Asia and autumn is my favorite season

PHILOSOPHY

"Your choices are half chance, and so are everybody else's."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have "surfed" in Connecticut (New Haven), South Carolina (Columbia), Indiana (Evansville) and Minnesota (Minneapolis). My very first CS experience was in Batam, Indonesia and it was great. I have met so many great people on this platform!

Interests

Constantly trying to push the bounds of my comfort zone. The more I do this, the more I realize I do not have a specific comfort zone and it is amazing. I think that too many people live in a bubble and are unwilling to try new things, meet new people and travel to new places.

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Music, Movies, and Books

Books/literature: anything by Oscar Wilde, The Alchemist, The Catcher in The Rye, Angela's Ashes, Water For Elephants, The Rainmaker

Music: Foo Fighters, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Audioslave, Stevie Wonder, James Morrison, Guster, People in Planes, Pepper, Tom Petty, OAR

Movies: Finding Forrester, The Departed, all Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell movies, 'The Bourne Trilogy', Forrest Gump

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Partied with Irish locals in a small village in Ireland; sea-kayaked in Maine and the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Italy; snuck into a crypt in an Italian church; befriended a monk in Vercelli, Italy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cambodia, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Singapore, United States

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