CURRENT MISSION

To find ways to occupy my time that are meaningful, fun, and fulfilling, and to surround myself with people who like to do the same!

ABOUT ME

In an ideal world, I would have adventures daily (even small ones).

PHILOSOPHY

I try to dedicate my life to making the world a better place to live in, and having fun while doing it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have not yet done any CouchSurfing or hosting of CouchSurfers, but I hope to soon! The closest experience to it that I have had was WWOOFing (see http://www.wwoof.org/) in France for six weeks a few years ago. Interesting and unpredictable!

Interests

Many things! Bikes, food, environmental sustainability, brewing beer, playing outside, playing music and singing, reading books, going on adventures.

• books
• singing
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• reading
• homebrewing
• painting
• drawing
• music
• cycling
• wwoof
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

books: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Césaire), Middlesex (Eugenides), The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jacobs), A Language Older Than Words (Jensen), The Wheel of Time series (Jordan), Boy Meets Boy (Levithan), The Giver (Lowry), Beloved (Morrison), Cosmetique de l'ennemi (Nothomb), 1984 (Orwell), The Golden Compass series (Pullman), The Harry Potter series (Rowling), The God of Small Things (Roy), Blindness (Saramago), The Green Futures of Tycho (Sleator), Written on the Body (Winterson), Orlando (Woolf)

music: The Decemberists, Winterpills, Jose Gonzalez, The Books, James Brown, Hem, Will Oldham/Palace/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Calexico, The Be Good Tanyas, Iron & Wine, Mozart, Wilco, R.E.M., Songs: Ohia, Paul Curreri, Modest Mouse, Aretha Franklin, Blind Melon, Bob Dylan, Jump Little Children, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, The Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch, Palestrina, Belle & Sebastian, The Seldom Scene, Fred Eaglesmith, Phillipe-Jean Catinchi, Antony & The Johnsons, Allison Krauss, MC Solaar, Patty Griffin, Sleater-Kinney, Huntsville Space and Rocket Center

movies: Amélie, Boys Don't Cry, Harold and Maude, The Princess Bride, Dead Poets Society, La Cité des enfants perdus, I Heart Huckabees, Amadeus, Running with Scissors, Rear Window, Do The Right Thing, Edward Scissorhands, The Neverending Story

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rode my bike from San Francisco, CA to Rehoboth Beach, DE (3,800 miles/6,115 km) in 9 weeks!

Teach, Learn, Share

To teach: bike maintenance, brewing beer, book-binding, basic carpentry, photography

To learn: cooking, drawing/painting, philosophy, anything I don't know!

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Japan, Peru, Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic

Countries I’ve Lived In

Jordan, United States

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