Currently living in Urbana Illinois but my landlady decided not to renew my lease so in my last couple months in this cool little house I thought I'd host some travelers, in the rare case someone is traveling through Champaign Urbana

I believe that everyone is entitled to be as strange or normal as they want, to do whatever they want with their time on this planet, as long as it doesn't keep other people from doing the same. I try to live by that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I couchsurfed a few years ago in Slovenia on a whim and it was awesome. Always wanted to return the favor but I haven't had a chance till now.

Interests

• pets
• dogs
• arts
• photography
• film making
• diy
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• animation

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie: Taste of Tea
Book: Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Baron in the Trees
Music: tooooo much to list. I listen to KCRW from Los Angeles, when I'm bored with my own music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is an old story I put up here when I first signed on, and I'm too lazy to update it. There's better amazing things but it looks like I actually put in some effort typing this.

On my drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles down the 101 freeway to catch the plane for this trip, I was driving in the fast lane enjoying good music when a four-door sedan driving in the northbound lane suddenly swerved and drove at top speed across the center median. A wall of dust flew up and obscured my view. The last thing I saw was the car cutting me off about 50 feet in front of my car, and the sedan barreling into the side of a fuel tanker 30 feet in front of me in the slow lane. My windshield was full of dust and pieces of shattered car ricocheting off the glass. I was sure I was a goner, and was going to hit either the sedan or the tanker. I heard terrible noises, and began swerving directionless, finally coming to rest on the center median in my own cloud of dust. When the dust cleared, miraculously, the destroyed sedan was sitting about 30 feet in front of me, and the tanker was off the road on the other side. It took me a few moments to get my breath, and I immedately called 911 while people from another car that had stopped began pulling a screaming little boy from the wreckage. I finally figured out where we were and told the 911 dispatch. By this time more people had stopped and were pulling a woman from the driver's side of the car. The boy was screaming for his mom but she wasn't moving. Eventually all the proper authorities came, the woman was airlifted to a hospital, and the boy was put into an ambulance. They both survived the accident. The car was totally demolished. I'd never seen anything like it. I was in shock most of the day, realizing that had I been about 2 seconds faster, I would have been in the middle of that tangle.
I house-sat for a couple earlier in the summer who had been travelling in Mongolia. They had brought me back the ankle bone of a wolf from the Mongolian steppes, which they had been told was a talisman offering good luck and protection to men. I had it in my bag on the passenger seat of my car when the near-death accident happened. I took it out and looked at it, and decided to bring it on this trip. So I have it with me, and if you host me, I'll show it to you. I think it saved my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

DIY animation, carpentry/woodworking, drawing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some food, maybe beer, a bike

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States