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  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Park Ranger at the Statue of Liberty National Monument
  • BA from York University in Toronto, Canada
  • From Providence, RI USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Making unemployment look glamourous!

ABOUT ME

I think my friends would describe me as reliable, nice, quiet but not shy, stubborn at times, intelligent, adventurous, and a bit quirky at times perhaps. I was born in Rhode Island and raised in Connecticut for the most part. As a child I realized that I loved cities and wanted to live in one (or two, or five) someday, and that I loved to travel! I went to university in Toronto, Canada, which was a great experience. Upon graduation I moved to Boston, MA where I put my History degree to good use by working as a Museum Educator. I loved and still love Boston, but after four years I decided to move to New York City. I lived first in the Washington Heights area, then in the Bay Ridge neighbourhood of Brooklyn. I worked for four years as a Park Ranger at the Statue of Liberty which was an amazing experience! In June of 2013 however I lost my job thanks to budget cuts, left New York and have temporarily moved in with the parents in Connecticut. While I'm between jobs, I plan on travelling all over the place! My recent trips have included England, Colorado, Charleston SC, and Chicago.

PHILOSOPHY

I'm trying to live in the moment without exhausting myself! There is so much to love about life and about humanity, and I can only hope that I get to experience half of what I want to experience.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now, looking for places to stay when I travel, but I plan on becoming a host when I get my own place again.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just started, so no experience yet!

Interests

Travel, learning, good tea, good beer, hockey, reading, hiking, watching way too much Netflix, pub trivia, bakeries, history

  • beer
  • pub crawls
  • trivia
  • reading
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • hockey
  • teaching
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Mulholland Drive, Vertigo, Star Wars (original trilogy), Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, many documentaries, classic Japanese films, all the typical movies from my 1980s/90s childhood.

Music: The Stone Roses, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Blur, Joy Division, The Charlatans, basically most Shoegaze, Madchester, Britpop music, as well as the early 90s grunge I listened to as a teenager.

Books: Great Expectations, A Confederacy of Dunces, Steppenwolf, most classic literature, history books

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States

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