I'm 39, single and have no children. I'm working as journeyman electrician for a contractor that mainly does new construction but also sometimes does corporate remodels.

So aside from family camping trips as a kid and a trip to mexico in 2005, I've really only been travelling often since around 2009. I travel frequently in the United States, long weekends with the occasional week or month long road trip. I've been going to Riviera Maya and Cabo San Lucas in Mexico lust about every year lately. June and part of July 2019 I will be taking my first trip to Europe. I'll be spending 3 weeks in Spain on a solo trip and then meeting a friend for week in Lisbon.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I love meeting new people and exploring places from the perspective of a local, rather than a tourist, and seeing how they live. Also it's a great way to force myself out of my comfort zone. I live with my brother who also has a couchsurfing profile and we've had people from Germany, Australia and someplace else that I don't recall at the moment and they were all great experiences and we've made life long friends out of it.

Centres d'intérêt

Camping and Backpacking: I camped a lot as a child in Wisconsin and since moving out to southern California have camped in some pretty beautiful places such as Sequoia, Pismo Beach, Joshua Tree and Yosemite. As far as backpacking goes I've never done longer than a two day trip but eventually I'd like to do the Pacific Crest Trail and the Appalachian.

I love seeing live music and usually go to 20-30 shows per year and I'd like to start going to more music festivals.

I love driving and recently bought my first newer car, a VW Golf TDI, that gets 6-700 miles out of a tank on the highway so whenever I have the time I'll drive to my destination if its within a 15-20 hour drive.

In my downtime at home I like to watch quality TV shows, usually hour long dramas.

I enjoy gardening quite a bit, particularly hot peppers. When I lived in Wisconsin I used to grow 20-25 plants consisting of several different varieties ranging from Jalapenos all the way up to ghost peppers. I'd dry and them crush them up and make a custom blend. I got a few of my friends addicted to that stuff and we were all sad when they ran out about a year ago. Now I live in the desert and they just don't grow well here. One of my goals is to eventually buy a piece of property in a fertile area with a climate well suited for growing peppers and produce them in larger quantities so I have enough of my pepper blend to sell at local stores and and farmers markets. And perhaps try my hand at making hot sauce as well.

• music festivals
• festivals
• gardening
• tv
• traveling
• music
• live music
• backpacking
• camping
• golf
• beaches

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Music: I enjoy most types of music and am always interested to hear something I've never heard before. My favorite genres are rock, jazz, ambient/psychadelic electronic, bluegrass, funk and classic rock.

Some of my favorites are Phish, Grateful Dead, String Cheese Incident, ALO, Devil Makes Three, Zero7, Turkuaz, Karl Denson, Little Feat, Frank Sinatra, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Infected Mushroom, Joss Stone, Pretty Lights, Thievery Corporation, Tycho, Younger Brother, 311, Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, Tool, Dr. Dre, Dean Martin, Mamas and the Papas, Michael Buble, Michael Jackson, Mika, Nora Jones, Garbage, Phil Lesh and Friends, Radiohead, Sheryl Crow, U2, Trey Anastasio Band, Mike Gordon Band, Van Morrison

TV Shows: Walking Dead, Longmire, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Justified, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Star Trek (all of them), Seinfeld, Threes Company, The A-Team, Boston Legal, Law and Order, Modern Marvels, Sense 8

Movies: The big Lebowski, Ronin, Outside Providence, Dazed and Confused, Goodfellas, The Departed, Inception, Gravity, The Wizard of Oz, Tropic Thunder, Austin Powers, Office Space, The Jerk, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Batman, Bourne Identity, Star Wars, Taken, Shawshank Redemption

I don't really have the attention span or the time these days for reading books but I have subscriptions to several outdoor and nature magazines and during my 2 1/2 hours of daily commuting I like to listen to podcasts such as Serial, Undisclosed and Freakonomics

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I can't think of anything amazing I've done that I can take credit for but I did get struck by lightning once.

Pays que j'ai visités

Mexico

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

United States