CURRENT MISSION

My Current Mission is travel cross country on a bicycle

ABOUT ME

I enjoy rock climbing, playing soccer, bike riding, playing chess, cooking, restaurants, sustainable food, adventures, traveling, smiling, being positive and meeting new friendly people.

PHILOSOPHY

Life=
1/3 sleep
1/3 fun
1/3 work

Figuring out how to make the 1/3 work part mesh turn into 2/3 fun

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, I signed up to couch surfer a while back but haven't participated in it until recently (Dec 2012). Hopefully, I will be able to help some people have a place to sleep and maybe in the future people will give me a place to stay.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have stayed at a few places but I am still a novice. Although i lived in my car/camped around the U.S. for about 2.5+ months (I did this twice 2008 and 2012)... Traveling = freedom

Interests

Rock climbing, getting off the grid.

• pets
• fish
• books
• dining
• cooking
• chess
• traveling
• cycling
• fishing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
I generally, watch whatever my friend Carla tells me to go see.

Music:
It changes all the time.

I just got out of an outlaw country fix. (don't judge)

Now I have been listening to a lot of Neutral Milk Hotel.

Some Artists I like (in alphabetical order-- itunes helps with this):
1. Aretha Franklin
2. Beirut
3. Black Keys
4. Bob Dylan
5. Buena Vista Social Club
6. Dead Man's Bones
7. Devotchka
8. Doc Watson
9. Eddie Vedder
10. Jackson 5
11. Leonard Cohen
12. Man Man
13. Manu Chao
14. Nick Drake
15. Otis Redding
16. Pixies
17. Radiohead
18. Sigur Ros
19. Sly and the Family Stone
20. Tallest Man on Earth
21. TV on Townes Van Zandt
22. Waylon Jennings
23. White Stripes

Books (My New Years Resolution was to read more):
1. A Time of Gifts
2. Into the Wild
3. Alive
4. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives
5. Outliers, Blink, The Tipping Point (Anything by Gladwell)
6. The Omnivore's Dilemma
7. The face of another
8. Big Sur
9. New river gorge guide book

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled through out the U.S. in my car for about 2.5 months. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Cannon, slept under the stars by the Colorado river. Drove down to Key West. Pet the Crocs in Flordia. Almost smashed into wild Boar in Utah. Won $400 in Vegas! Swam with the fish in the Atlantic and Pacific. Had a month Stint in Europe. Living Loving NYC! Now I am moving to San Francisco and rock climbing everywhere before I get there!

Teach, Learn, Share

1. All of the above
2. Teachers/Professors
3. Bosses and coworkers
4. Internet people
5. People on the subway
6. People on the streets
7. People in the woods
8. People on the beach
9. People from other countries
10. Books