If you don't make connections with the people who live in the places you go, you don't really go to those places. Couchsurfing is an organic grassroots way to travel.

Music: Trevor Hall, Nahko, Paul Izak, Xavier Rudd, John Butler, Rising Appalachia, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Michael Franti Books: Ishmael, The Alchemist, anything by Joseph Campbell, anything by Terence Mckenna, anything that is thought provoking and impactful