ABOUT ME

I currently live in Orange County, NY (I know my profile says Clark, NJ - I cannot edit that until I get verified). I work as a teacher/mentor for people who are interested in learning primitive skills!

PHILOSOPHY

So i was flipping through a random book about high-end expensive furniture the other day, and i came across this quote that i believe is from hermann hesse:
Man has no tasks except one:to find the way to himself, to discover his own destiny - not and arbitrary one - and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself....Many times I had fantasized about my future, about becoming a painter or poet or prophet, or something similiar. Nothing of the sort....All that is secondary. The genuine vocation of each man is to find the way to himself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I took a break from Couchsurfing for a few years, but now I'm back. I've mostly seemed to host people - either passing through for a day, but every now and again, while Im traveling, I get to stay with someone and make a new friend.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Overall, it's been really good. Ive met some great, life-long friends.

Interests

• birds
• writing
• photography
• cooking
• reading
• music
• hiking
• camping
• skateboarding
• swimming
• archery
• biking
• tracking
• foraging wild foods
• mushroom hunting
• basket weaving
• building things

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent a very cold 6 months out here living in a tipi with my dog and a moose nearby. That year got so much snow that when it all melted, the creek it was near jumped up several feet higher than it ever has and destroyed everytthing.