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Overview
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