CURRENT MISSION

To explore the world, discover fascinating people, inspiring places...

ABOUT ME

I studied history in Brooklyn College, had my own construction company for a while and then travelled the world for a bit. Currently working for corporate America, as a path to establishing my own business in a few years. (Not construction) I believe traveling is the second half of education that human beings must discover, and is equally important. I love adventure, wide open spaces, music, art, good food and company. I love my friends and my family.

PHILOSOPHY

Love life, enjoy the moment and you will love everyone around you.

Sometimes its hard to know whether you have a purpose in life. Yet I believe that in the immediacy of this present moment right now, I have all the purpose I need.

I plan for the future and sometimes get lost in all the planning, but I find happiness in sharing the present with my friends.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Travelled and surfed a little, then hosted a few people to pay back my debt, now looking to travel again a little bit as I am working :)

Interests

I love life, art, music, learning, dancing, sitting around fires and climbing mountains, and food!

• arts
• dancing
• education
• dining
• coffee
• boating
• traveling
• music
• rock climbing
• business
• economics
• teaching
• history
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.
The Last of The Mohicans, Fenimore Cooper

Into the Wild
One Week
The Matrix
The Duellists

All varieties of music. A sound for every mood and feeling in this life.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Neil:

Jumped off 60 foot waterfalls in Upstate New York.
Jumped off the second stage at Namtok Ti Lo Su waterfall in Thailand.
Rode a Kawasaki ER6 accross the Northern Mountain villages in Thailand. Drank mountain tea and coffee there and was so high and happy I almost burst on that motorcycle. Then, to the Mekong river and across Thai farmlands and back to my temporary base in Chiang Mai.
Rescued a grandmother from drowning on Brighton Beach.
Rescued an 8 year old kid from drowning when he was pulled by a rip current in rough waves.
Helped revive and 11 year old girl from no pulse and no breathing to breathing and pulse.
Criss crossed Colombia on a motorcycle for three months in 2013.
Spent 18 hours on a motorcycle in Colombia, during one long a beautiful day, 600 miles going non stop through four different ecosystems in one day. ( mid elevation coffee zone 60f, high altitude mountain jungle 40f, low elevation plain 100f, and mid elevation mountenous river/jungle ecosystem 80f) :)
Learned Spanish while there.
Rode the Tail of the Dragon in N.C. a dozen times or so in the space of two different trips.
Took a tiny boat across a raging Carribean Sea for 8 hours to get to Peninsula Guajira, kissed the desert sand when I got off it...
Rode my moto to NW most corner of USA, in Maine.
Climbed Mount Kathadin in slightly over 2 hours.
Spent 2 days riding my bike, 1000 miles and 16 to 17 hours, each day from NYC to Boulder, Co. (200 miles - Fuel - Gatorade - Repeat)
Climbed 2 Flat Iron Mountains In Boulder in one day.
Climbed Longs Peak.
Spent 1 day riding through Colorado mountains - Crested Butte to Silverton to Durango - in September 2016 and got into 3 separate snow and hail storms with temp swings from 40 to 70 to 30 F. Wearing summer gear.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a prism
through which everything
I see and experience
Takes on a meaning,
becomes beautiful.

Where there is reason, there can be no love. Love is chaos, love is the unreason.

As a student of history, I have come to understand the way the human world works, and the way things have been. There is seldom reason to glorify the past or to think that people before lived better or worse. The human condition has always been and always will be, principally the same, at least with regard to economics. The few and the powerful have always exercised control over the many. The only difference between the present and the past is that before this control was presented at the edge of a sword, today it is presented in the form of property rights, laws passed, vast amounts of money wielded as weapons against the mass. And the threat of poverty if one does not comply with the rules of civilization.
(feel free to criticize this, I am sure this statement has holes in there somewhere, I am ready to support it with evidence though! :):)

I wrote some of this while still in college, I might be getting more conservative with time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Russian Federation, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine, United States