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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese, French
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • No occupation listed
  • Tulane University, New Orleans
  • From Orlando, FL, USA
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About Me

Adventurous, fun-loving guy living and working in Asia for the past 3 years.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To Travel - The best way to see a new city is through a local's eyes, which I hope this provides. I wanna know what's not in the guide book and go where a local would if they only have a few nights in their town

To Host - HK is a revolving door and a lot of my friends moved back to the states this year. I'm hoping to meet some new people from all over and hopefully trade stories and get ideas about where to scratch my travel itch next. Plus I love showing off my city!

Interests

Hiking, exercise, beach
Pool (billiards), darts, trivia, bowling, or any other pub game
Snow skiing, rock climbing, golf, racquetball, or any other new sport you wanna teach me

  • books
  • exercise
  • pub crawls
  • trivia
  • traveling
  • billiards
  • darts
  • music
  • hiking
  • skiing
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • racquetball
  • golf
  • bowling
  • tourism
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Depends on the mood I'm in and what I'm doing. I have broad tastes and worked at a record store throughout college. I have a spot for anything NOLA esp live albums and would choose those shows over the below, but...

If I had to pick 3 favorite albums...IV, Eminem Show, Fire on the Bayou, Brothers

Movies: I love all kinds of movies, but off the top of my head today...Fight Club, Forrest Gump, and dozens of others that I don't have time to mention but if they're on I will watch the rest of

Books: Slaughterhouse Five; 1984; Guns Germs, & Steel (and yeah, plenty else)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed a volcano in Bali at 3am to watch the sunrise from the top

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: How to appreciate how precious life is and that every morning we wake up is amazing and something to be cherished

Learn: How other cultures and people approach life, which I suspect will be mostly the same as we all do, despite what everyone wants us to believe

Share: The love I have for Hong Kong, New Orleans, NOLA Music, and Life in general

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Netherlands, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hong Kong, United States

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