CURRENT MISSION

To learn, experience, and participate in as much of the world as possible.

ABOUT ME

My name is Charlie Saginaw. I am passionately curious: I love to ask questions! I am a native Texan, with no Southern drawl. I live for travel and food and great conversation.

PHILOSOPHY

Ask questions; they enrich our perspective and give unsurpassed purpose. Perhaps it is what make us most human.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to travel and experience new places as the locals do, with the local transpiration, food, customs, and human experiences. I also l love to share stories with couchsurfers; they tend to have a lot of them.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I first discovered couchsurfing from my friend Tamilla. Before I left to study World War II in Europe for a month in 2009, she suggested checking out this site to meet locals in the places we were staying. Starting in Berlin my friend Lauren Ayers and I headed east on the train and couchsurfed through Praha, Budapest, Vienna, and then headed back west and stayed in Amsterdam. After that I have been to a few couchsurfing parties and they have been great!

I have trouble finding the words to describe how much fun I had sharing stories, meeting families, and discussing local politics.

Interests

History, Reading, Nature, Travel, Food/Cooking, Running, Basketball, Adventure, Ice Cream

• tango
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• partying
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• basketball
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Chatcher in the Rye, Macbeth, Founding Brothers, The World Is Flat, Davici Code, The Chosen, Siddartha, Harry Potter, The Giver, 1776, The Alchemist, The Broker, Bob Dylan: Chronicles Part I, Night, The Devil In The White City, Cuba Libre, Germs Guns and Steel, The Art of Happiness, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Tipping Point, Blink, The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time, China Inc. Scar Tissue, Faking it: How To Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself, The Omnivores Dilemma

Music: Bob Marley, The Grateful Dead, Bright Eyes, BB King, Guster, Matisyahu, The Rolling Stones, John Coltrain, Ben Harper, Ben Folds, Darkstar, Wide Spread Panic, Peter Tosh, moe., Red Hot Chili Pepers, Snoop, Bob Dylan, Desmond Dekker, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Lead Belly, Woody Guthery, Willie Nelson, Jurassic 5, Dave Mathews, Paul Wall, The Animals, Blues Traveler, G Love and Special Sauce, String Cheese Incident, Galactic, The Roots, Dub Raggae, Thievery Corporation, Keller Williams, Zap Mama, Kevin Devine, Funkidelic, Amos Lee, Regina Spector, Jonh Butler Trio, The Yardbirds, Big Sams Funky Nation, Backdoor Slam, Common, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Steven Marley, Rodrigo y Gabrila, Andrew Bird, Guru, Al Green, A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, MIA, AIR, Devendra Banhart, Daft Punk, Octopus Project, Cat Empire, Justice

Movies: Dead Poets Soceity, Clock Work Orange, Team America, South Park the Movie, Doney Darko, Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2, Woodstock, Supersize Me, The Inconvenient Truth, Yojimbo, The Usual Suspects, Wanye's World 1 and 2, Austin Powers, Fight Club, Rushmore, Blazing Saddles, V for Vendetta, Good Fellas, Motorcycle Diaries, Everything is Illuminated

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This summer I and 59 other University of Texas students biked over 4,600 miles from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. We are doing this ride to support Cancer Research at MD Anderson Cancer Research Center.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a student of history, yoga, and tango. I love to share these things and learn about them too!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love to cook, tell stories, tell jokes, and teach people about improvisational comedy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Swaziland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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