HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Don't worry about what your purpose in life is, just follow your passion, and then you will find your purpose. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I've had great couchsurfing experiences in -Chicago at a hostel for musicians -Walhonding, OH with the nicest couple who teach art and grow their own food and live with their young daughter in Amish farm country -Columbus, OH with a really interesting couple who'd met teaching in Korea and had traveled throughout southeast Asia -Westerville, OH staying with the most wonderful professor, learning about haiku and talking about music! -At Kenyon College in Ohio with the Environmental House students! -South Carolina eating blue crab and playing ukelele! -A party in Charleston with a banana tree in the backyard and a artist co-op downstairs! -Playing guitar by the kumquat tree in Savannah! -Staying in a backyard of a Navy Seal in Georgia with my friends in tents, had a bonfire! -Making Sunday Night dinner in Key Largo! -Stayed in Tallahassee with Steve, went and purchased him a road bicycle, got crepes w/, went to the artsy neighborhood, played chess with friends, had bonfire! -Stayed in Blountstown in Blair's backyard (super nice guy!) -Hanged out in Mobile for three nights while it poured rain with our awesome hosts, saw live music, made cookies, played trivia, got coffee -Surfed in New Orleans with Mark -Bozeman with Becca and all her awesome roommates/friends, made salmon burritos! -Stayed in Missoula with Ben, saw Railroad Earth, went to Tammarack Brewery with him and friends, had a great time! -volunteered at bike coop, bought road bike, went to rooftop party in Chicago, made guacamole and shot pool, rode bike back to volunteer housing in Indiana -Stayed in Portland, had bonfire, had some tasty coffee and biscuits, assembled bikes, went and played frisbee with friends and strangers.

MUSIC:Gillian Welch, Trampled by Turtles, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams Sr., Dave Van Ronk, Otis Redding, Al Green, the Beach Boys, the Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Midlake, the Band, Beatles, Radiohead, Kate Bush, Pavement, Velvet Underground, Daniel Johnston, Billy Bragg, the Cure, Leadbelly, Phosphorescent, Foxygen, the Statler Brothers, Cat Stevens, Lou Reed, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, the Doors. READING: Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Pahlainuk, Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Edward Abbey, Bill Bryant, Candace Savage, Madeline L'engle, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack London. DIRECTORS:Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino.