Hi! I'm Max.

Traveling, meeting and connecting with strangers, being of my comfort zone, going on crazy adventures, and helping others are all things that bring me happiness, more than any material item could. Some of my more specific interests are being outdoors, I love hiking, kayaking, running, skiing, and just being in nature. I also love to cook, play the harmonica, and make art.

I took my first solo backpacking trip right after graduating high school, spending a month in California working at a homeless kitchen and two months in Costa Rica volunteering at a surf camp and then hitchhiking around the country.

I recently spent three months backpacking through Africa, taking public transportation from Cape Town to Nairobi, Kenya through five countries.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

As much as I enjoy staying in hostels I would love to have more authentic experiences while backpacking and learn more about the cultures and daily lives of the people who actually live where I am passing through. I also love the idea of exchanging stories and experiences rather than money :)

兴趣

• cooking
• reading
• origami
• magic
• hiking
• sports
• science
• hitchhiking
• travel
• nature
• adventure
• stargazing
• computers

音乐、电影和书籍

I can enjoy almost every genre of movie/TV show but I do love science fiction, especially Star Trek The Next Generation and Interstellar. My all-time favorite movie is The Prestige by Christopher Nolan (it starts slow but give it time!). Some other movies I've really enjoyed are Interstellar, Get Out, The Terminator, Yesterday, and Hereditary among many others...

As for books I'm a huge fan of Arthur C. Clarke, some of my favorite of his are The Sands of Mars, Childhood's End, and Rendezvous with Rama. I also loved Station Eleven, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Cosm.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Coded a website that lets you listen to the individual elements on the periodic table (if lattices themselves could make audible noise).

教，学，和分享

I can teach you:
How to solve a rubik's cube
How to make a smash burger
How to make really good taiwanese dumplings

I can share with you:
Card tricks
Card games
Terrible jokes

I would love to learn:
Your story
Your culture
Your favorite recipe

我游览过的国家

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Kenya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Zambia

我居住过的国家

United States