CURRENT MISSION

To reassert personal connections in a world of fractured politics

ABOUT ME

Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing --
Seeking the spheres, to connect them

PHILOSOPHY

HE who has once been happy is for aye
Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then
Holds nothing secret; and Eternity,
Which is a mystery to other men,
Has like a woman given him its joy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Am traveling during the winter but looking forward to the spring when the farm season resumes and I have a couch of my own again to return oh so many favors.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted in Kyoto and the snowy reaches of northern Japan when I lived there. Met many amazing people surfing in Russia and Eastern Europe in the spring. Endless variety of experience.

Interests

World literature, hiking, linguistics, traveling by foot and by rail, triathlon, climbing, classic motorcycles, 19th century painting, vegetable gardens

• literature
• festivals
• motorcycles
• traveling
• painting
• folk music
• hiking
• rock climbing
• animation

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

裸参り in Tono
Summer festival in Otsuchi
Crossing the Pacific Ocean on a container ship

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, North Korea, Peru, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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