# Currently traveling the world with https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/olga-kavvada #

I have a favorite quote from when legendary jazz band-leader Count Basie was interviewed:

Interviewer: How do you want to be remembered?
Count Basie: ...As a nice guy

Besides that, I've gone to school and worked as an engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 10 years and love the lifestyle that it has provided me:

* biking everywhere
* exercising outdoors
* camping and hiking
* visiting my family nearby
* meeting intelligent, humble, open-minded people from all over the world
* getting rid of my car
* meeting my girlfriend (Olga Kavvada on couchsurfing)

My biggest passion is getting better at something every day. In particular, I've been dedicating myself to new hobbies such as dancing, acroyoga, piano, singing, reading, and most-recently, writing and sharing stories in our travel blog taxeedee.com

Finally, I love laughing with friends and maybe even more with new people I meet.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

To meet new personalities around the world: sharing a room, a meal, and stories with them. I hope that can be you, and I hope we can learn about and from each other in the process!

Interessen

I love technology, and particularly computer science. It's exciting to live in the era of its infancy. I love understanding fully what a person does for their life, to the point that the other person is bored with the subject. I love running, especially with a competitor. I love all sports, in particularly basketball, tennis, and american football. My favorite book is Godel Escher Bach, which entangles so many disparate concepts into a single, beautiful feedback loop of life. I love singing and playing music. Music grounds me instantly when I am feeling off.

• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• running
• crossfit
• technology
• reading
• music
• hiking
• windsurfing
• sports
• basketball
• american football
• soccer
• tennis
• computer science
• history
• mathematics
• science
• mountains
• biking
• acroyoga
• nutrition
• nonfiction
• popular science
• weightlifting

Musik, Filme und Bücher

music: paul simon, pat metheny, stevie wonder, arcade fire, bon iver, the band, phish

books: Godel Escher Bach, Sapiens, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, Old Man in the Sea, Infinite Jest, The Gene, Homo Deus, Flash Boys, The Big Short, The Undoing Project

Movies: Black Mirror, Birdman, Whiplash, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Step Brothers, Once, Sing Street

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Summiting Mount Shasta in California: INTENSE for a beginner!
Listening to The Way Up by Pat Metheny
Hiking in the desolate wilderness of Sierra Mountains in California, hiking in the Alps near Interlaken, Switzerland, truly incredible views!

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I'd love to teach others about fitness, programming, math, science, and the zen of mentally disappearing on a long bike ride.

I'd love to learn what others are passionate about, and how they find happiness. And I want to learn some cooking from you!

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Austria, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, United States

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

France, Switzerland, United States