CURRENT MISSION

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

ABOUT ME

I'm from New Mexico, but I spent half my summers in California. My parents took me traveling to Europe, Greece, Switzerland, Hawaii, Germany and all over the Western USA. Then I went to college in California at UC Santa Cruz and got a major that did not immediately result in a job upon graduation. I took a job teaching English in South Korea for a year. After that I got offered a job in Denver, so that's where I'm living.

PHILOSOPHY

"There are two ways to live; one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
-Albert Einstein

"In one day I had altered my life: my life, therefore, was alterable... I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination, and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own will."
-Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted a few surfers and done some surfing myself. It's the best way to see a city and meet some actual people from the area!

Interests

Hiking, backpacking, hitch-hiking, reading, writing, movies, travel, music, photography, RPGs, gardening, cooking, organics, fine foods, writing restaurant reviews.

• writing
• photography
• cooking
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• surfing
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

"His daughters watched in the rain. The prettiest, shyest one hid far back in the field to watch and she had good reason because she was absolutely and finally the most beautiful girl Dean and I saw in all our lives. She was about sixteen, and had Plains complexion like wild roses, and the bluest eyes, the most lovely hair, and the modesty and quickness of an antelope. At every look from us she flinched. She stood there with the immense winds that blew clear down from the Saskatchewan knocking her hair about her lovely head like shrouds, living curls of them. She blushed and blushed."
-Jack Kerouac, On The Road

"Pain or damage don't end the world, or despair, or fuckin' beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man -- and give some back."
-Al Swearengen (Deadwood)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hitch-hiked from Sacramento to Vancouver, Canada!

Teach, Learn, Share

"Now these things aren't drugs; they just bend your mind a little. I think everybody's mind should be bent once in a while."
-Bob Dylan

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States

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