CURRENT MISSION

Build things

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Ohio and now I live in Japan. I run a company called Firewatching Media (firewatchingmedia.com).

PHILOSOPHY

Be thankful, humble, & show love to everyone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We've hosted a number of people and loved it. We have also stayed with people around the world and made many friends here.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Auckland, NZ
Selcuk, Turkey
Marmaris, Turkey
Fethiye, Turkey
Sofia, Bulgaria
Budapest, Hungary
Vienna, Austria
Firenze, Italy
Siena, Italy
Nice, France
New York, USA
Seattle, WA USA
San Diego, CA USA

Interests

Travel, hiking, backpacking, people & culture, language, philosophy, investing, startups & tech, music, film

• culture
• running
• technology
• traveling
• investing
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• communications

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, Neal Stephenson, Jon Krakauer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Blake, Umberto Eco, Daniel Quinn, Marshall McLuhan, SM Stirling

Movies: Lost in Translation, Tokyo Godfathers, Dreams, Ran, Seven Samurai, Dead Man, Buffalo 66, Anything by Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, 70s Films

Music: Jeffrey Foucault, Avett Brothers, Horse Feathers, Townes Van Zandt, Ray LaMontagne, Andrew Bird, Corb Lund, Chris Smither, Lightning Dust, Dead Weather, Era, Garmarna, 009 Sound System, Yeasayer, JJ, High Places, Burial, M83, Mogwai, Passion Pit, The xx, Fever Ray, Altair Nouveau, Immortal Technique, Aesop Rock, RAS, Mos Def, Puscifer, Tristania, Paradise Lost, Opeth

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching the birth of my two sons tops them all.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've traveled around the world once on relatively little money and can give lots of good advice about this, as well as how to live well in Japan, learn Japanese, and program computers

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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