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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 70, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • political organizer, socialist troublemaker, nature lover
  • The Evergreen State College and via friends
  • From Salem, OR, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

road trip to California, Oregon, Washington

ABOUT ME

Traveled to Mexico, Cuba, Norway, USSR, Canada and Australia

PHILOSOPHY

dialectical materialism, part of the vast majority that works for the owning class-- or maybe I should say works against the interests of the owning class.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet other travelers or homebodies, and learn from your story.

Interests

helping raise two teenagers, reading, world events, radical politics, photography and video editing, writing.

  • writing
  • photography
  • politics
  • reading
  • hiking
  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

any reads by Karl Marx, esp his bestseller; feminism, labor history, queer history, history of people of color;
folk music;
afrocuban and constructivist art;
just finished The Butterfly Boy.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hiking in the Redwoods, lagoon swimming in Mexico,living with families in Cuba, caravaning across Canada, hanging with activists in Moscow.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cuba, Mexico, Norway, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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