1. Hiked the Machame route in 5 days to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro and made a balloon sculpture on top. 2. Eating pizza, cheese, seafood, chicken and various other foods for the first time when I was 20 years old. 3. Made my own djembe drum in Langa. 4. Booked an impulsive flight to Honolulu from NYC, and left 4 hours later. Ended up staying on the islands for five weeks, and had the time of my life. 5. Got naked in Athens with a nudist catfish. 6. Tandem skydived over Oahu, and did it again static-line outside of Cape Town. 7. Shark Cage Diving in Gansbaai 8. Kruger and Mjejane Game Drives 9. Lost my friends in Cederberg National Park, stumbled into a leopard preservation area and mistook these two baboons as my friends. 10. Afrikaburn 2013, Burning Man 2014 11. I cast a spell on witches in Moshi to scare them for taking advantage of me and my Kili guide. They flipped out. 12. No Pants Subway Ride--Boston 2014 13. Traveled across the lower 48 of the USA 4x 14. Swam next to a whale shark in open water in Sodwana Bay 15. Became friends with a raccoon in Seoul. 16. Worked on a dairy farm in northern Iceland as a third date. 17. Got stuck on a zipline in the Gansu Province for 30 minutes and had to be rescued. 18. Survived the plank walk on Huashan near the Terracotta warriors in Xi'an. 19. Held a Koala at Lone Pine in Brisbane. 20. Celebrating New Year's at an impromptu rooftop party in Sydney. 21. If you get this far, please type: "Blue Pigs" in the first line of your couch request.

Good conversation, company, and made-to-order balloon creations ;)

Playing guitar/piano/French horn, scuba diving, eating dark chocolate (almost an everyday occurrence), Tai Chi, finding 4-leaf clovers, making wild things out of balloons, and spending time outside. I'm openly gay, so please be comfortable with that as well.