After spending three years abroad, I'm back in the US and following an old dream: head West and stop when it feels right.

I love music, books, food, people, and travel, and I am passionate about writing and making music.

CURRENT MISSION
To travel across the country, meet stellar people, pick a new city to call home, and surround myself with creative, thoughtful people. And of course: do more, see more, be more open and compassionate, etc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I want to connect with kind, like-minded people who call the place I'm visiting "home".

Also, I love being part of a network of hospitable people who defy the fear-mongering notion that the world is a scary place full of murderous others.

Interests

• arts
• humanities
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• music
• nature
• people
• comedy
• nonprofits
• aimless wandering
• the beautiful and the absurd

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers: Don DeLillo, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, George Saunders, Steve Almond, Soren Kierkegaard , David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Camus, Cormac McCarthy, Bohumil Hrabal, etc.

Musicians: The National, The Shins, Sunset Rubdown, Velvet Underground, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Conor Oberst, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, Arcade Fire, Simon Joyner, Pavement, Parquet Courts, Clap Your Hands, Broken Social Scene, Spoon, Titus Andronicus, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Nils Frahm, Wilco, Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Blind Willie Johnson, etc.

Films: Anything by Paul Thomas Anderson, Coen Bros, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Scorsese, Adam Curtis, etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Open and honest conversations, guitar lessons, an annoying amount of praise for Taiwan, and...pretty much anything I have that you want.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Taiwan