CURRENT MISSION

I don't have a mission, I have an idea

ABOUT ME

I am a classically french-trained chef, but I left that industry because it pays shit (in Arizona, at least)
I am now (again) a truck driving redneck.

I enjoy cooking and baking, road trips, and social events.

I am a self-described Liberal Socialist High-Tech Redneck.

I have two daughters who mean the world to me. I don't get a lot of time with them and value the time I do have with them. I try to squeeze a lot into every minute.

I enjoy going to bars occasionally, but not clubs. I love coffee on patios while people watching.

I also love, and actually prefer being at home with friends, playing card games or board games, and even the occasional pictionary or charades.

I love the outdoors; camping, boating, hiking. I love road trips to nowhere or anywhere. I love spending hours just snuggling, watching a movie, maybe some tea or hot chocolate, or a glass of wine.

I love to cook, and I love to eat. I have a degree in Culinary Arts, and I really like to try new foods.

I shatter stereotypes. I don't try to, it's just that there are things that are "me" that don't fit well together.

For instance, I love country music, and big trucks. (SUVs and Semis), but I champion equal rights for gays and lesbians rights at every opportunity.

I have a very dry and extremely sarcastic sense of humor, and think puns are an art form.

I listen to mostly country music, but I like pretty much everything except ignorant gangsta type rap music.

I have been to as many heavy metal/hard rock type concerts, as I've been to country concerts.

I've also been to swing/ska music concerts, like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't live by your rules, you can't understand mine

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just joined, so I'm figuring that out

Interests

Bowling, camping, family, friends, movies, outdoors, rodeo

• arts
• concerts
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• coffee
• baking
• clubbing
• boating
• technology
• movies
• board games
• music
• country music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• bowling
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

I don't really watch TV other than an occasional DVD. I don't even have cable.

Far too many books to list, but among those I re-read occasionally are;
Howard Zinn's A Peoples History of The United States
The Company: A Novel of the CIA
Tortilla Flat
Cat's Cradle

Movies: American Grafitti, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Killing Fields, Don't Cry It's Only Thunder, Chariots of Fire, The Last Emperor, Seven Years in Tibet, Breaking Away, Milagro Bean Field War, The Waterfront, Office Space, To Kill a Mockingbird, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, Airplane, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, The God Who Wasn't There

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I've done was probably the fan boat ride in the swamps of Louisiana

Countries I’ve Visited

Jamaica, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States