CURRENT MISSION

I want to drive around in a van, solving mysteries.

PHILOSOPHY

Abstractionism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's my first day.

Interests

Literature (especially of the 1800s in recent months), hiking, sleeping outside, watching/playing in local bands, climbing up stuff but not back down, not dancing, playing (not watching) various sports, running/swimming/cycling for exercise, art history, space, exploring Earth's terrains, the ocean, maps, animals, plants, sociology, chemistry, physical/cultural anthropology, neurology, aesthetics, picture composition, music theory, chess, imagining what I am seeing on an atomic level, trying to be like my hero/great great uncle Thomas Edward Lawrence (the "of Arabia" guy), creating/collaborating art of any medium: particularly poetry/novel/short story writing, oil painting, concept sketching, and music (I dabble mainly in bass, mandolin, guitar, percussion, harmonica, piano, and voice).

• animals
• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• sketching
• dancing
• exercise
• running
• chess
• painting
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• anthropology
• art history
• cartography
• chemistry
• history
• sociology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Ridiculous 80s movies.

Music: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett, The Replacements, Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, The Audacity, Nobunny, Pterodacdudes, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Kow Otani (composer), Koji Kondo (composer)

Books: Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, Frankenstein, Great Gatsby, What Dreams May Come, On The Road, Dharma Bums, Big Sur, Naked Lunch, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, Dr. Seuss, Doors of Perception, The Alchemist

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One time my best friend and I attempted to hike around a big lake in one day. Around sunset we were only half way around, and half a lake away from camp. We walked out to the end of a peninsula and stuck out our hitchhiking thumbs. Just as we were about to give up and swim across the lake, the two of us hitched a ride by sea, fully clothed, arms wrapped around some lady, balancing on the back of a jetski. I don't even think Jack Kerouac got a ride like that.

Oh, and the same day I found some clam fossils. On top of a mountain of all places.