I like people and their stories. I like seeing the inside of the places I visit, living in cities as they are meant to be lived in and not as they appear to outsiders. Tourism bores me. Besides, there is no better way to build a relationship than to share a home and a meal with someone.

Authors: George Eliot, Brandon Sanderson, Jane Austen, David Foster-Wallace, Stephen King, Jennifer Egan, Robert Jordan, Isaac Asimov, John Scalzi, Octavia Butler, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Marcel Proust, Ken Liu, Robert Heinlein, Jack Kerouac, Jules Verne, HG Wells, Mark Z Danielewski, Flanney O'Connor, Raymond Carver, China Mieville, Anne Tyler, Phillip Roth, Cormac McCarthy. Music: EDM, Bjork, MIA, whatever happens to be playing in the background Not much of a movie person, but certainly not opposed to them