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, go to 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..

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, hitchhiking, cook outs, backpacking, bicycle tours, sleeping on rooftops, meeting new people, making new friends.

Interests

Road Trips, Daydreaming, Reading, Backpacking, Blacksmithing, Bicycles, Carpentry, Natural Building, Eco Design, Plumbing, Electrical, H.v.a.c., Cooking, Trying to fix stuff, Community Gatherings, Shop Craft, Bush Craft, Field Craft, Street Art, Sewing, Primitive Skills, Archery, DIY stuff.

• 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, A Home of Our Own, The Gleaners and I, Into the Wild, Amazing Grace and Chuck, Children of Men, Stranger than Fiction, Everything is Illuminated, Little Miss Sunshine, The Road, Fight Club, Lots of documentaries, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, The Matrix

Books: Ramp Hollow, The Giving Tree, The Fixer, The Bible, The Unseen Realm, Raids on the Unspeakable, The Pearl, 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, 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, Community and Growth

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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