HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Heaps of surfing: I've been "traveling", more or less, for three years. And I'm just about to head home. Much hosting shall then commence :) Also, I just want to add...that every request I ever send is personal and not copy+paste. However, in the interest of legitimately trying to find a place to stay, I often send a bunch. If I ask to stay with you and you say no, I'll always always try to say thanks for the reply. If you slip through the cracks, I apologize in advance! COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Started the whole shabang in Seattle when I stayed on a CSer's yacht while apartment-hunting. Yes, a YACHT. Invited many people into my miniscule studio in Seattle, though usually IRL friends and not via CS. Surfed my way through the larger cities of Europe and Asia while hitchhiking/camping my way from France to China, bummed around Australia a bit, currently in New Zealand, bound for Hawaii and then home to good ol' Tennessee (where I'll be opening my home wide open to pay forward all the wonderful hospitality shown to me!)

My music tastes are too varied to describe; from Beethoven to the Beastie Boys and everything in between, pick a genre and there's bound to be something I enjoy. Movies: Top Gun, Ocean's Eleven, Italian Job, Starwars, The Little Mermaid, Office Space, Anchorman, Tombstone, Legends of the Fall, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Horse Whisperer, Man from Snowy River, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Good Will Hunting...I like lots of these too. Books: anything by Ludlum, Faulkner, Henry James, Franz Wisner, Donald Miller, Dr. Seuss, Hemingway, Jeffrey McDaniel, Fitzgerald, Tolstoy, Kipling, T.S. Eliot, Dickinson, Bill Bryson, Pirsig, Sedaris, Krakaeur....list goes on, I love to read.