HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I plan to visit a new land and use Couchsurfing to help me find a place to stay. Eventually, I hope to open a room in my home up to Couchsurfing members. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I am new to Couchsurfing.

Favorite Books: Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence. 1984, Animal Farm - George Orwell. Creation - Gore Vidal. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott. The Call of the Wild, The Valley of the Moon, Martin Eden, Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli. Caesar's Commentaries - Julius Caesar. The Generalship of Alexander the Great - J.F.C. Fuller. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris. Babbitt, It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis. The Guns of August, The March of Folly - Barbara Tuchman. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Stranger, The Plague - Albert Camus. Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand. Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden - John Steinbeck. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair. Paul Revere's Ride - David Hackett Fischer. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens. Mozart: A Life, Beethoven - Solomon Maynard. The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell. Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert. Crime and Punishment & The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Utopia - Sir Thomas More. The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins. god is not Great - Christopher Hitchens. Why Evolution is True - Jerry Coyne. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors - Nicholas Wade. Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption- Laura Hillenbrand. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey. The Art of War - Sun Tzu. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo. Tan, A Wild Dog -Thomas C Hinkle. Lord of the Flies - William Golding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond, Doug Ordunio. The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One - Sylvia A. Earle, Bill McKibben. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America - Thomas L. Friedman. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett. Washington: A Life - Ron Chernow. Truman, John Adams - David McCullough.