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Overview

  • 23 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Higher Education Staff
  • Bard College (BA), Goddard College (MA)
  • From Brewster, MA, USA
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About Me

Returning to Couchsurfing after a long break. After 12 years living in Philadelphia, I moved back to my home state a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and can't believe it's already been 5 years! Since 2021, I have lived in Boston, Salem, and now Somerville. I currently have one roommate who is a close friend. She has lived in the apartment for almost 15 years now.

As of 2025, I had only left the U.S. to travel to Canada. But all of that changed with my trip to IRELAND in early June. It was a truly magical adventure and I have lots of stories to share if you’d like to hear them.

This is from my old profile (circa 2006!):

CURRENT MISSION
meeting new, exciting people and cultivating mutual aid.

ABOUT ME
i'm really friendly and easy to talk to. i like meeting new people and learning from them. i'm all about diy, collective liberation, and dancing like no one's watching.

PHILOSOPHY
i'm just struggling to follow my passions while surviving and transforming this capitalist society.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Excited to be back! I would love to meet travelers coming through the Boston area. Happy to show you around and maybe host you on my couch for a night.

From my old profile..
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
i spent 6 weeks of a summer in nyc on a friends couch. 3 months travelling the united states. many couches were surfed. i've used CS in minneapolis, dayton, morgantown, and have met a bunch of couchsurfers over the years when i lived in northampton.

Interests

2006 interests--still mostly relevant:
traveling, the revolution of everyday life, geography, zines, bikes, reading, rocking, etc.

  • writing
  • diy
  • dancing
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • karaoke
  • geography
  • history
  • activism
  • anarchism

Music, Movies, and Books

*pump up the volume
*diy acoustic punk
*living my life, dance of days, a language older than words

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ireland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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