I am an avid traveler and long-distance bicycle tourist who has heard great stories on friends and cultural experiences fellow travelers have had using couch surfing, but for whatever reason I have always opted to stay in hostels or camp while I am traveling. I have just finished over 8 months of travel in Asia and am now steeling down to teach for a year in Surat Thani Thailand, before taking off on another big trip and figured I would start my couch surfing experience by giving to the community as host. Once I am finished with my year of teaching primary math here I plan to do a long bicycle tour towards Europe, and am planning to make extensive use of this service as a guest.

I have traveled to quite a few countries in Asia and Latin America, spent time doing work exchanges in Ecuador (bartending) and Colombia (English teacher), spent a year teaching English in Shanghai China, and now I find myself teaching math in Surat Thani Thailand.

I am an easy going guy, like to have a good conversation over beers and food, prefer to ride a bicycle over all other forms of transport, consider myself a dog person, spend a lot of my free time reading or dreaming about my next trip, and like to help others whenever I can. I am always looking to make connections for future couches to crash on, so it's a bit ridiculous that I'm just now using the service actively...I guess I'm a bit old-fashioned when it comes to social networking.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am on couch surfing to network with fellow travelers and learn from their experiences. Also, it would be nice to meet people from places that I may travel someday so that I can have a couch to crash on at some point down the road! ;) I plan to use this service the next big trip I go on, so I want to be an active part of the community as a giver, so that I feel more deserving of the times when I use the service as a guest.

Interests

• dogs
• beer
• reading
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• snorkeling
• skiing
• mountains
• travel
• travelling
• mountain biking
• reading books
• bicycling
• bicycle touring
• bicycle
• bicycles
• reading book
• mountain hiking
• bicycle riding
• hiking in the mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite bands: Dave Matthews Band, Sublime, The Beatles, Rusted Root, The Talking Heads, Rolling Stones
Favorite movies: The Big Lebowski, The Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, The Life Aquatic,
Favorite books: Robinson Crusoe, Desert Solitaire, The Monkeywrench Gang, God's Middle Finger, Getting Stoned with the Savages, The Stand, Sapiens

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've bicycle toured the entire Pacific Coast of the US

Teach, Learn, Share

Travel stories, Bicycle mechanics, very basic Spanish

What I Can Share with Hosts

gardening/landscaping, computer repair, bicycle repair/maintenance

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Colombia, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam