ABOUT ME

I am currently a history and political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have very limited CouchSurfing experience, but hope to get more involved in this great global community to facilitate travel and, of course, meet new, interesting people.

Interests

Traveling, history, political activism, biking, music, writing, cooking, philosophy.

• writing
• festivals
• cooking
• running
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• history
• political science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, The Holy Mountain, The Battle of Algiers, Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Pi, A Clockwork Orange, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, This Is Spinal Tap, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fight Club, Requiem For a Dream, and There Will Be Blood.

Music: Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Animal Collective, Art Blakey, The Pixies, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Sonic Youth, John Cage, Brian Eno, Bob Dylan, Dr. Dog, Built to Spill, Ornette Coleman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 18, Ravi Shankar, Nick Drake, and many more.

Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Vandana Shiva, Arudhati Roy, Howard Zinn, Lester Bangs, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, George Orwell, Herman Hesse, T.S. Eliot, Charles Bukowski, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Running with the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain.
-Riding a camel and spending the night in the Sahara Desert.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Ireland, Morocco, Peru, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States