*moved back to KY, living in Lexington now*

I usually go by "Ben." I've lived in Chicago for five years, came here from Maine in 2013 to move in to a christian intentional community, learned about Jesus, Israels Messiah. I'm originally from Kentucky, (which is where I did the majority of my C.S. hosting in the past.) I spend a lot of time contemplating, working and trying to help people in ways that I feel are appropriate. I also like to dig around in thrift stores, read, hit up farmers markets, ride bicycles, do some volunteering, explore the libraries, tinker on all kinds of things and try to attend various events around the city, maker spaces, bicycle rides, etc.. *moved back to KY living in a tiny house outside Berea*

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host, surf and encourage CS to other friends I think would make good couch surfers and hosts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Conversations lasting late into the night, hitch hiking, cook outs, backpacking, bicycle tours, sleeping on rooftops, meeting new people, making new friends.

Interests

Road Trips, Day Dreaming, Reading, Backpacking, Blacksmithing, Bicycles, Dancing, Carpentry, Natural Building, Eco Design, Plumbing, Electrical, H.v.a.c., Motorcycles, Science Fiction, Cooking, Trying to fix stuff, Community Gatherings, Shop Craft, Bush Craft, Field Craft, Street Art, Sewing, Primitive Skills, Archery, DIY stuff, Social Dynamics, Solitude, Contemplation, Conspiracy Theories, what Justice and Righteousness really mean, Walking around places, Talking to People, Going out into the Nature, The Gospel Gift of Vulnerability, Science, Faith, God, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus Christ, Everything Jesus says about the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven (like how we can't have it unless we change and become like children, which I also heard from one of my mother's art professors about producing good art, coincidence?)

• arts
• design
• street art
• diy
• dining
• cooking
• walking
• motorcycles
• reading
• metalworking
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• archery
• cartography
• science
• hitchhiking
• road trips
• tours
• films
• film
• bicycle touring
• rally
• bicycles
• construction
• natural building
• indie films
• navigation
• welding
• foreign films
• mopeds
• cafe hopping
• fabrication
• rallying
• cafe racers
• land navigation

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Jesus of Nazareth, Capricorn One, Apocalypto, Hacksaw Ridge, Out of Shadows, Fall Cabal, Sequel to Fall Cabal, The Unholy See, A Home of Our Own, Throw Down Your Heart, Cold Mountain, Wind River, A face in the crowd, the network, Stand by Me, The Gleaners and I, Close Up, Turtles Can Fly, Into the Wild, Dead Poets Society, Amazing Grace and Chuck, Children of Men, Stranger than Fiction, Everything is Illuminated, Little Miss Sunshine, The Road, Fight Club, Lots of depressing documentaries where we discuss afterward whether or not its good to watch depressing documentaries but agree its important to be honest and it's dangerous to live in illusions, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, The Matrix, Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Books: Ramp Hollow, The Giving Tree, The Fixer, The Bible, The Unseen Realm, Raids on the Unspeakable, The Pearl, The Great War and Modern Memory, The Grapes of Wrath, Coming Out of the Ice, A Canticle for Leibowitz, essays and short stories by Wendell Berry, George Orwell, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, C.S. Lewis, Cormac McCarthy,Thomas Merton, Kurt Vonnegut or John Steinbeck, Waking the Dead, Celebration of Discipline, Man's Search for Meaning, New Seeds of Contemplation, In the Heart of the Beat, The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The financial lives of poets, Slaughterhouse Five, Alas Babylon, Nineteen Eighty Four, A Walk In The Woods, Z for Zachariah, Choke, Fight Club, Exit To Reality, The Mole People, Harrison Bergeron, The Descent, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Hatchet, Metro 2033, Killing Hope, Community and Growth, The House of Sand and Fog

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in a yurt for six months in the woods.

Teach, Learn, Share

See "Interests"

What I Can Share with Hosts

time, labor, tours, conversation, food, lodging, bicycles, maps, tools, community, a future couch to surf, friendship

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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