I grew up in Michigan, moved away, traveled around and then moved back. Then I left, toured around a bit and landed in Florida for a while but I'm still looking for my people and a place to put down some roots.

Please don't ask me what I do. I studied engineering in college but it didn't stick. Career passion has sadly evaded me and I've been unemployed for a long, long time. I volunteer and stuff.

In 2015 I got pretty fired up about Bernie Sanders and his becoming our next president. I had a fairly right-wing upbringing, but it never sat well with me. After living in progressive San Francisco for eight years and Berlin, Germany, for two, I can very clearly see that the roots of world problems are planted in the American oligarchy that Bernie is fighting. After that campaign ended, I stuck in the fight in whatever other ways I could, helping to end gerrymandering in Michigan and helping the blue wave get along. I liked Andrew Yang in 2020.

I think about big existential stuff a lot more than I should. The harm of religion and right-wing politics has been a major focus of my thoughts for the past ten or so years. I made this: https://www.stopindoctrination.org and https://stopthegop.netlify.app.

I'm an activist, anti-theist, satanist, nudist, animal lover, feminist, home-body, web hack, do-gooder, and vegetarian. Moooo!

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted and surfed but not much lately.

I've been a couchsurfer in Canada, Mexico, the US, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had loads of great ones. For example, my host in San Antonio gave me a tour of the town on his tandem recumbent tricycle. Everyone we passed smiled and waved. We were rock stars.

Another time I stayed with a guy who used to be the navigator in a plane flying drugs for the Medellin cartel. He was pretty nice. I'm glad he changed careers.

I did most of my hosting when I lived in San Francisco. That was lots of fun. I had a motorcycle back then and would tour around all the checklist spots while all my local friends were busy at work. Ask me about the time a guest and I were extras in a movie. I can't write about that one here. :)

兴趣

• cooking
• coffee
• vegetarian
• politics
• traveling
• camping
• volleyball
• history
• beaches

音乐、电影和书籍

I like funny movies best, books about how people behave and funky or difficult instrumental music.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Amended the Michigan state constitution to eliminate gerrymandering!!

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I recently learned how to put up drywall should you have any need to do that while visiting Detroit.

我游览过的国家

Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Germany, United States

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