A friend of mine referred to me as "a grown up punk/hardcore kid" and i think it's an apt description.

Spent 10 weeks the summer of 14 riding my bike across the country. It was pretty fucking incredible, to be honest.

Working on figuring out the best way to try to make this world better for the people and things I love.

I take not taking myself too seriously pretty seriously.

I really like insects. Like, a lot a lot.

I used to work with bees, and there are days when I miss it a lot.

My dad died of cancer at 45. The main thing that I've come away from that with is that we have to make our lives, our days, our moments count for as much as possible, and we have to let our loved ones know how we feel about them. Life is fucking short, and youth is fucking fleeting.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I'm headed to Iceland & Scandinavia the summer of 2016 for an extended bike tour. I rode across the US the summer of 2014 and met tons of rad people, both through warmshowers.org and through sheer luck, but I figured I'd sign up for couchsurfing to try to meet more rad folks.

兴趣

bike touring, riding uphill, insects, beets, heavy metal & terrible radio rap, wanderlust

• insects
• education
• cycling
• teaching
• science

音乐、电影和书籍

Books:
Henry Miller.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Sainte-Exupery.
Days of War, Nights of Love by CrimethInc.
The Ishmael books by Daniel Quinn.
Derrick Jensen.
Jeannette Winterson.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Watership Down.
Richard Dawkins.
Paulo Coelho.
Barbara Kingsolver.
Kahlil Gibran.
E.O. Wilson.
Edward Abbey.
Calvin & Hobbes.

I just picked up Feral by George Monbiot and Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. I'm excited about both of them.

Music:
Heavy metal.
Hip Hop.
Hardcore.
Punk Rock.
Southern Rock.
Opera.
Lately it's been a lot of Sigur Ros, Des Ark, The Allman Brothers, Mos Def, Run DMC, Heaven Shall Burn, Lamb of God, Prayer For Cleansing, Powerwolf, Sacred Harp singing, AFI, Strike Anywhere, Born Against, His Hero Is Gone/Tragedy, From Ashes Rise, Parkway Drive, Converge, Lucero, and a bunch of terrible/awesome radio rap (2 Chainz, Juicy J, Drake, Migos, etc.).

Movies:
Amelie.
Life is Beautiful.
Il Postino.
The Departed.
Let the Right One In.
The Princess Bride.
BBC Life/Planet Earth/Blue Planet/Life in the Undergrowth.
Babe.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I rode my bike solo across the US the summer of 2014. I mean, I guess lots of people have done that, but I thought it was pretty rad.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

bike repairs, education advice/horror stories, terrible/awesome science jokes

我游览过的国家

Canada, Costa Rica, Germany

我居住过的国家

Germany, United States