To meet interesting people anywhere I travel, and give back to travelers. While staying with the family of a good friend in Russia I realized that while I was seeing many places on my travels, I was not learning much more about the way people live and think. I thus reinvented my idea of travel to emphasize spending more time in each location, and spending more time with local people. This way I can hear their perspective of their cities and countries, not that of some sponsored travel website or history book.

Music: Hip Hop/Rap, rock, alternative, just about anything Movies: Shawshank Redemption, 40 Year Old Virgin, The Dark Knight, Sin Nombre, anything with Leonardo diCaprio, there are so many good ones... Non-fiction, biographies