CURRENT MISSION

Travel plenty, meet many, learn languages and cultural customs, change from the experience.

ABOUT ME

I'm a nice and open person looking to learn from travel and experience and continued exposure to great works and great people. Music is hugely important to me (playing, listening, writing, viewing) and I'm interested in a gaining knowledge about the music of other cultures. I lived in Spain from 2008-2009 and did lots of couchsurfing and exploring while becoming semi-bilingual.

I am now a graduate student completing my master's paper while living in San Francisco...the greatest city in the US!

Americans need to invest time in acquiring new languages as it will not always be the lingua franca. monolingualism in our current climate is a travesty!

I enjoy communication, meditation, and action. Activities like climbing, frisbee, beach volleyball, cycling, hiking, camping, swimming, tennis and basketball. Creative pursuits form another crucial component...including video documentation, songwriting/recording, reading, developing further instrumental abilities, freestyling, poetry/fiction writing, journal documentation, audio-recordings.

Adventure can be found, had, and felt at the most seemingly mundane and minute level...open your ears to the music of the spheres.

PHILOSOPHY

The Perennial Philosophy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have participated in couchsurfing activities the world over!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed many couches in my time on this Earth...couches ranging from extremely uncomfortable to bed-like works of majesty. Couchsurfing to me appears to be one of the great human experiments of the 21st century and by all accounts it has been and shall continue to be a great success! All of my surfing experiences have further instilled my hope and trust in humanity.

Interests

music, reading, learning, languages, people, places, animals, film, experience, writing, philosophy, survival, thought, intelligence, spirituality, rhythm, paradigm shifts, revolutionary notions and actions

• animals
• writing
• poetry
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• investing
• survival
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• skiing
• sports
• basketball
• rock climbing
• tennis
• volleyball
• swimming
• languages
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Sunset Boulevard, Baraka, Sukhavati, Bonnie & Clyde, Trainspotting, Psycho, This is Spinal Tap, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, The Big Lebowski, A Clockwork Orange, City of God, Amorres Perros

Music: The Rolling Stones, Donovan, Smashing Pumpkins, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Eric B and Rakim, The Velvet Underground, Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, Jesus & Mary Chain, Slowdive, Animal Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, Outkast

Books: Animal Farm, On the Road, The Perennial Philosophy, Myths to Live By, Siddartha, The Doors of Perception, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Steppenwolf, The Alchemist, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Dhammapadda, Dharma Bums

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Waching the sunrise and set during my three nights in the dunes of the Sahara desert wherein we stayed in berber tents, nomadic settlements, and journeyed on camelback...slept on the beach for my first three nights in Spain amidst Irish gypsies and Colombian minstrels...worked on the land plot of a Finnish woman living in a 100 year old house nestled in a valley beneath a phoenician-era castle during my first month in Spain...journeyed through Arches National Park in Utah, USA...lived alone in a hut in southern spain for several months...ALMOST walked El Camino Del Rey at El Chorro in Spain...went cross-country skiing in the pyrenees mountains...created a new sport in Barcelona, Spain...journeyed through the Isle of Skye in the British Northern Isles of Scotland...saw two double rainbows in two consecutive days in Alora, Spain...drove through the entirety of Mexico on a 36 hour wirlwind drive to see the Total Lunar Eclipse of the Winter Solstice 2010 at the Aztec Pyramids of teotihuacan...rode across the entirety of Central America by bicycle...attended Mayan ceremonies at Tikal, Guatemala for the December 21, 2012 end of the 13th Baktun...slept in the jungle lowlands in a hammock...on and on. this world is amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Be where you are.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Gibraltar, Hungary, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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