CURRENT MISSION

Do everything I want to do. All the time. No holding back. One step at a time!

ABOUT ME

In Iowa I help run a youth/arts community space where young people are able to pursue projects and interests they are passionate about. After two years up sprung from this an oddly bustling and popular local music scene in the cornfields of no-where, and it's been truly inspiring. So inspiring that I decided to pursue everything else that I'm passionate about, including more travel. I scraped together a few thousand and now it's Mongolia India and Thailand for me. I'll be participating in natural building projects, so that I can go home and build a house on my parents land, and maybe later I'll move to New York and write Broadway musicals that are collaborations between indie artists? There might be a couple steps in between there. I'm extremely dry humored, but not rough around the edges at all, I'm a softy. I love doing and talking about anything interesting, new and inspiring. However, 30 rock marathons and eating sour gummy worms all day is also equally satisfying.

PHILOSOPHY

Do what you love, no matter what.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, meeting new people! Makin' memoriez.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None!

Interests

arts and culture, generational voices, music, sustainability, building houses, community economy, being passionate about things, doing things with a fiery passion, musicals, good theater, dancing to top 40 hip hop, bike riding but not in the hipster way.

• arts
• culture
• theater
• dancing
• running
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Rushmore, The professional, life as a house, almost famous, anything with child heroes, Joanna Newsom, Gillian Welch, Karen Dalton, Avett Brothers, James Blake, Hot Chip, 80's, Twin Shadow, Lykke Li, Stevie Nicks, Beyonce (so much pleasure and less and less guilt), an array..

100 years of solitude, The Road, running with scissors, to kill a mockingbird, golden compass series

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

These things for me are little things. Skinnydipping under and Iowa blue moon as a child, dancing all night and being completely lost in the music, laughing until I cry, riding off a high of teamwork/ synergy when completing a project with friends.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll tell you all I know and you can do the same :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States