CURRENT MISSION

Education via world exploration

ABOUT ME

Living and working in Bangkok for sorta-educational purposes and to learn and meet worldly friends

PHILOSOPHY

This is hard to say.
I am still figuring this out, and hopefully it will be always changing...
but to realize where you belong, and appreciate who you are with, and learn as much as possible must be the happiest life there is.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think couchsurfing opens a world of doors that would otherwise make travel nearly impossible for those with "financial handicaps", while at the same time making it possible to meet and enjoy the company of other world cultures.
Now that I'm semi-settled in here in Bangkok, I'm opening my room to those who are traveling (when available).

Interests

Urban/ un-urban exploring and adventuring, nature wondering, nature admiring, arts of many mediums, weird and questionable things, learning, reading, watching, joking, admiring, being, doing, seeing, meeting, loving.

• arts
• education
• walking
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• skateboarding
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Wings of Desire, Star Wars (Trilogy), Fallen Angels (+ everything Won Kar Wai), Akira, Boys on the Run, The Outsiders, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Brazil, Midori, Dune, Wild at Heart, Melancholia, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Sympathy for Mr. Vengance, etc. etc.

Daniel Johnston, Wu Tang Clan, MBV, Mashysteria, Drake, 2 Chains, Schoolboy Q, Neil Young, Nick Cave, The Smiths, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Swirlies, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Sleep, Dinosaur Jr., etc. etc.

Mishima, Hesse, Foster-Wallace, Carrol, Silverstein, Suess, Seraphini.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Salt Flats in the desert between New Mexico and Texas, where all is flat except purple mountains in the distance, and milky blue pools are rippling in the wind.

Sat in complete darkness 1,000 feet underground at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.

The grassland/ industrial lands outside of New York City on the train to Philadelphia.

The canal of houseboats (so many colors!) in London, England.

The popularity of McDonalds late at night in the winter in Leeds, England.

The base on Mount Saint Helens (Washington) meeting the floor of the earth.

The stars on the Navajo reservation in northern New Mexico.

A best friend skateboarding through the gates of China town, San Francisco.

Barely seeing Mt. Fuji in a foggy horizon while on my decent to Narita Airport, Japan.

Waking up to earthquakes in Toride, Japan.

Riding on the back on a motorcycle through crowds of people in San Andres, Manila, Philippines.

Admiring fire flies in the darkness of a coastal forrest at night, then being bitten by the poisonous Habu snake in Ishigaki-jima, Okinawa, Japan.

Holding hands and eating Macaroons with my baby brother in Montemarte, Paris.

Still loving everyone I grew up with after we've grown up in Portland, Oregon.

Accidentally walking into the (very yellow) flower market, while lost, late at night in Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand.

Playing ukulele with my kinda JeiJei on the rush hour train in Bangkok, Thailand.

Finding a home away from home in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Thailand, United States