CURRENT MISSION

Love God, Love People, Nothing else matters.

ABOUT ME

Well, I make balloons, hang out, play trivia, drink, have fun, make furniture, travel, volunteer, and enjoy life.

PHILOSOPHY

A friend of mine has his religious views on facebook summed up as "I'm a Christian, but I'm not an A**hole." That works well for me. My faith gives meaning and direction to my life, and a reason to help people, but I spend more of my time apologizing than proselytizing and I still know how to have a good time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've biked 1000 miles staying with strangers, traveled from Guatemala to Indianapolis by hitchhiking, buses, and third-class transport. I couch-surfed across Ireland, England, Scotland, and England with a few hostels thrown in too.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've hosted a dozen or so groups at our house, and I've stayed with couch-surfers across the British Isles.

Interests

I love making balloons for folks and thus, have the coolest job in the world. I love taking my art overseas and volunteering with those who can use it. I make literally anything, including caricatures, every animal, a full sized biplane, and a 35 foot octopus.

I love building things too, from furniture to renovating our whole basement. I love taking the ugliest room and making it beautiful.

To hang out I love playing trivia, hashing, gaming, cracking puns, and doing crazy stuff.

• animals
• arts
• drinking
• trivia
• traveling
• woodworking
• hitchhiking
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

World War Z, Hitchhikers guide, anything about woodworking, The Gift, Blue like Jazz, C.S. Lewis

Top 40, Rascal Flats, Anything Celtic, Taylor Swift, Brave Saint Saturn, Five Iron Frenzy, Zac Brown Band.

Star Wars, LoTR, Community, the Office, Psych, House Crashers, Hitch, Stranger than Fiction.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My roommate and I loaded up our bikes and a couple hundred bucks onto a greyhound bus to Denver with no training, no map, and no idea where we were going to sleep. Nearly 1000 miles later we'd traveled across 3 states and had some great stories.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've taught a few thousand people balloons and I'm pretty good at woodworking, so um, come on over and learn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, Ireland, Kenya, Uganda, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States